Haroun Al Raschid
Haroun Al Raschid - meaning Summary
Mortality Humbles the Ruler
Longfellow’s short piece shows Caliph Haroun al-Raschid encountering a poem that reminds him kings and worldly glory are transient and death is inevitable. The reading prompts an emotional, humbled response: he bows and sheds tears upon the page. The poem compresses a moral lesson about vanity, possession, and mortality into a single moment of recognition and sorrow, underlining human vulnerability regardless of rank.
Read Complete AnalysesOne day, Haroun Al Raschid read A book wherein the poet said:-- "Where are the kings, and where the rest Of those who once the world possessed? "They're gone with all their pomp and show, They're gone the way that thou shalt go. "O thou who choosest for thy share The world, and what the world calls fair, "Take all that it can give or lend, But know that death is at the end!" Haroun Al Raschid bowed his head: Tears fell upon the page he read.
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