Myrtle and Myrrh
Year established 2026-08-20 from the title page of myrtlemyrrhpoems00riha, which reads Myrtle and Myrrh / by Ameen Rihani / Boston: Richard G. Badger / The Gorham Press 1905, and from the copyright line Copyright 1905 by Ameen Rihani. Membership is 48 of the gathering (47 at threshold 0.6, Disarmed Desire by hand). The printed contents lists Salaam and 50 verse titles; Salaam is a prose prologue extract declined; two titles reprint in 1921 in later recensions matching this gathering and were left for that volume. My Burnoose keeps sequence null: the page heading is MY BORNOOSE.
Numbers rank the poems whose position in the book is known; they are not page numbers.
- 1Ever to Be 1905
- 2The Philistine 1905
- 3Fardi wa Nafli 1905
- 4Adele 1905
- 5Nectar and Blood 1905
- 6Resurrection 1905
- 7Disarmed Desire 1905
- 8A Better Woe 1905
- 9The First and Last 1905
- 10O, Sweet Sometime 1905
- 11A Bed of Flame 1905
- 12The Sister of Death 1905
- 13Retribution 1905
- 14Lilatu Laili 1905
- 15Thy Smile 1905
- 16Dissolution 1905
- 17A Serenade 1905
- 18The Brass Bed 1905
- 19Three Golden Threads 1905
- 20Independent Blossoms 1905
- 21The God of My Goddess 1905
- 22A Peasant’s Song 1905
- 23Her First Sorrow 1905
- 24Saada 1905
- 25Stolen Salvias 1905
- 26Jealousy 1905
- 27Beneath the Salvias 1905
- 28Gone with the Swallows 1905
- 29To the Sonnet 1905
- 30The Tomb and the Rose 1905
- 31Rest 1905
- 32Repentance 1905
- 33O, Give Me Strength to Take 1905
- 34Near the Cascades 1905
- 35Onward Keep 1905
- 36Allah wa Ana 1905
- 37In Memory of E. M. El-K. 1905
- 38To Abu’l-Ala 1905
- ·A Nocturn 1905
- ·A Spring Dirge 1905
- ·In the Meadow 1905
- ·It Was All for Him 1905
- ·Let Thine Eyes Whisper 1905
- ·Midnight Mood 1905
- ·My Burnoose 1905
- ·The “Flatiron” and the Ruins of Palmyra 1905
- ·Unadorned 1905
- ·Upon the Peak of Sanneen 1905