Bird Parliament : * "Bird Parliament", by Farid ud-Din Attar, tr. by Edward FitzGerald, [1889], BIRD PARLIAMENT BY EDWARD FITZGERALD Once on a time from all the Circles seven 1 Between the stedfast Earth and rolling Heaven THE BIRDS, of all Note, Plumage, and Degree, That float in Air, and roost upon the Tree;...
Title Page : * "Bird Parliament", by Farid ud-Din Attar, tr. by Edward FitzGerald, [1889], BIRD PARLIAMENT BY FARID UD-DIN ATTAR TRANSLATED BY EDWARD FITZGERALD First Published In Letters And Literary Remains Of Edward FitzGerald (William Aldis Wright, Ed.) London And New York: Macmillan And Co. [1889] Scanned...
Untitled : This celebrated Sufi poem, also known as Conference of the Birds, by the 12th century Persian poet Farid ud-Din Attar, is a tale of a journey of a group of thirty birds to the summit of the world mountain, Qaf. An allegory of the Sufi journey to realization of the nature of God, each bird h...