Lalla-Rookh

Lalla Rookh is a poem by Thomas Moore, published in 1817. The title is taken from the name of the heroine of the frame tale, the daughter of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.

Engaged to the young king of Bactria, Lalla Rookh goes forth to meet him, but falls in love with a poet she encounters on the way. The bulk of the poem consists of four interpolated tales sung by the poet: The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan (loosely based upon the story of Al-Muqanna), Paradise and the Peri, The Fire-Worshipers, and The Light of the Harem. When Lalla Rookh enters the palace of her bridegroom she swoons away, but revives at the sound of a familiar voice. She awakes with rapture to find that the poet she loves is none other than the prince to whom she is engaged.

The name Lalla Rookh, or Lala-Rukh (Persian: لالہ رخ), means "tulip cheeked" and is an endearment frequently used in Persian poetry.^[1]

References

1. ^ Balfour, Edward (1885). The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia. II. London: Bernard Quaritch. p. 661. http://books.google.com/books?id=3U0OAAAAQAAJe. 

External links

• The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore includes Lalla Rookh

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