{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_spa_spa01_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_spa_spa01_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_spa_spa01_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/spa/spa01.htm","summary":"DURING my lengthened researches in, and long study of the Pus\u2019hto language, for so many years past, and particularly when making selections for my work entitled \"Gulshan-i-Roh,\" * I could not fail being much struck with the beauty of some of the poetry of the Afgh\u0101ns; so much so, indeed, that I long since determined, and, at length, now venture to submit to the European reader, a literal translation of several poems of the most celebrated of the Afgh\u0101n poets\u2014together with a brief notice of each\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Selections from the Poetry of the Afghans: To the Reader","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":774}