Transports of Delight : An Aromatic Journey in Verse From East to West on the Wings of Perfume

Annotation This Book Is A Feast For The Nose! Transports Of Delight Is A Celebration Through Verse Of Man & Rsquo;s Extraordinary Sensory World Of Smell, Connecting East And West. Here Is A Fascinating And Delightful Anthology, Drawn From Around The World And Across The Millennia, Capturing A Kaleidoscope Of Emotions, Moods And Memories, All Of Which Are Energized And Enhanced By Smells Of Every Kind & Ndash; & Lsquo;smells Which Match Our Moods, Promote Our Passions, Provoke A Sense Of Awe In The Natural World Around Us, And Bring Us Closer To Our Gods & Rsquo;. The Anthology, Containing Over A Hundred Poems And Excerpts From Literature Including The Teachings Of The Buddha And Ben Johnson & Rsquo;s Intoxicating & Lsquo;drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes & Rsquo; (ode To Celia), Takes The Reader From Japan To China, Tibet And The East Indies, On To India And The Levant, Then To Europe And Finally To The Americas. Transports Of Delight Will Certainly Help Transport And Delight The Reader To Another Level Of Sensory Pleasure & Ndash; Far Removed From Today & Rsquo;s Audio-visual World Of Ipods, Televisions, Cds And Dvds! [edited By] David Pybus. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 131). Transports of Delight 4 Contents 6 Acknowledgements 10 The Ballad of East and West 12 Prologue 14 Scent 22 JAPAN 24 Fragrance of the Orange 26 Once there was a Man 27 10 Uses of Koh (Incense) 28 Brought by the Breeze 29 An Ephemeral Spring Dream 30 In the Moonlight 31 Flowers of Hill or Dale 32 When the East Wind Blows 33 After Bells had Rung 34 From Memoirs of a Geisha 35 From The Musmee 37 From The Buddha at Kamakura 38 CHINA, TIBETANDEAST INDIES 40 When Two People are at One 42 Xanadu 43 The Glories of Kinsay (Hangchow) 44 The Scent of Autumn 46 Hymn to Incense 47 The Widow’s Tale 48 From Lord Jim 49 Burning Incense 50 INDIAANDTHE LEVANT 52 Soft as a Bud 54 When We Have Loved 55 In the Month of Vaishaka* 56 The Prophet 57 Awake, O Heart 59 Song of Arabian Camel Drovers 60 The Capture of a Rose by Distillation 62 From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 63 Gulistan (Garden of a Rose) 64 Sinbad’s Other Tale 65 Incantation 67 Take Unto Thee Sweet Spices 68 The Smell of Lebanon 69 From The Gardener 70 EUROPE 72 Here First She Bathes 74 When I Drink Wine 75 The Histories 76 Phoenix 78 You Will Dine Well, Dear Fabullus 79 My Boy’s Kisses 80 Poetry is Hard 81 The Smell of Gum 82 Chypre (Cyprus) 83 The Ordinall Of Alchemy 84 Secret of the Philosophers 85 Sonnet 54 87 Coming To Kiss Her Lips 88 A Fragrante Prayer 89 To the Most Fair and LovelyMistress Anne Soame 90 Upon Julia’s Unlacing Herself 91 Ask Me No More 92 From Rhodon and Iris 93 A Nosegay for Laura 95 Edict of George III,King of England 96 Cologne 97 The Wallflower 98 From Ode to a Nightingale 99 From The Sensitive Plant 100 Le Parfum 102 Awakenings 103 Love and Sleep 104 Perfume 105 Memory 106 White Heliotrope 107 Odour 108 Eros D’aute 109 Hothouse Flowers 110 From The Picture of Dorian Gray 111 A Lure 112 The Connoisseur of Woodsmoke 113 Ithaka 114 Sent 116 THE AMERICAS 118 To Celia 120 From Bermudas 121 Meditation 9 123 From The song of Hiawatha 124 To Helen 125 Smoke 126 Ambergris 127 From Waikiki 129 The Flower-fed Buffaloes 130 The Earth is Precious 131 Roots and Leaves 135 The Sign 136 E P I L O G U E 138 Earth Scent 138 Glossary 140 Bibliography 144 The Harvey Crest 145 "This book is a feast for the nose! Transports of Delight is a celebration through verse of man's extraordinary sensory world of smell, connecting East and West. Here is a fascinating and delightful anthology, drawn from around the world and across the millennia, capturing a kaleidoscope of emotions, moods and memories, all of which are energized and enhanced by smells of every kind - `smells which match our moods, promote our passions, provoke a sense of awe in the natural world around us, and bring us closer to our gods'. The anthology, containing over a hundred poems and excerpts from literature including The Teachings of the Buddha and Ben Johnson's intoxicating `Drink to me only with thine eyes' (Ode to Celia), takes the reader from Japan to China, Tibet and the East Indies, on to India and the Levant, then to Europe and finally to the Americas. Transports of Delight will certainly help transport and delight the reader to another level of sensory pleasure - far removed from today's audio-visual world of ipods, televisions, CDs and DVDs!"--Publisher's description