I must then go into the kitchen, and eat a pomegranate from his gardena glorious pomegranate, with kernels of crimson, and so full of blood that you could not touch them but it trickled through your fingers.

Then they presented him with a sweet orange for his mother, and a pomegranate for his father, which they said must be opened very carefully.

Roses and pomegranates in bloom starred the dark foliage, and the scented jasmine overhung the walls.

The Khan was now seated with his courtiers about him, and was carving the rind of a pomegranate into patterns, like a man with his thoughts far away.

And the legend, I feel, is a part Of the hunger and thirst of the heart, The frenzy and fire of the brain, That grasps at the fruitage forbidden, The golden pomegranates of Eden, To quiet its fever and pain.

In a wilderness of wilted maize fields, and mud or wattle-built villages, one's eyes rested with affection upon slender trees laden with rosy pomegranatesthe pomegranate on the branch is a lovely rusty-brown fruit, and the tree is like a briar with large berries.

Then we have French songs, Russian songs, Chinese songsamong others the "Shiang-Touo-Tching," the Chanson de la Reverie, in which our young Celestial repeats that the flowers of the peach tree are of finest fragrance at the third moon, and those of the red pomegranate at the fifth.

"'Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely; thy temples are like a piece of pomegranate within thy locks.