"Islamite" Quotes from Famous Books
... multitude That, fired by zeal or by oppression wronged, Round the white standard of the impostor thronged. Beside his thousands of Believers—blind, Burning and headlong as the Samiel wind— Many who felt and more who feared to feel The bloody Islamite's converting steel, Flockt to his banner;—Chiefs of the UZBEK race, Waving their heron crests with martial grace;[104] TURKOMANS, countless as their flocks, led forth From the aromatic pastures of the North; Wild warriors of the turquoise hills,—and those[105] Who dwell beyond the everlasting ... — The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al |