‘Religious gems can ne’er adorn’

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Metadata

‘Religious gems can ne’er adorn’

Poet(s)

Ibn Adham, Ibrahim

Credits

Translator

Carlyle, Joseph Dacre

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Temple Bar 61, 459, April 1881.

First line

Religious gems can ne’er adorn

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

Arabic

Notes and attribution research

Poem included in the unsigned prose contribution Haroun Alrashid (456-468), by Stanley Edward Lane-Poole (Wellesley Index). Footnote credits the source as Clouston’s ‘Arabian Poetry for English Readers, (p. 109).’ Translator attribution: Joseph Dacre Carlyle, Specimens of Arabian Poetry, Cambridge, 1796, p. 47. (NM)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 17722

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

‘Religious gems can ne’er adorn’