Samarkand Quotes

“‘There’s a far-off scent about you seems
Born in Samarkand.’”

“Wikipedia: Samarkand”

“To learn the age-old lesson day by day:
It is not in the bright arrival planned,
But in the dreams men dream along the way,
They find the Golden Road to Samarkand.”

“White on a throne or guarded in a cave
  There lies a prophet who can understand
Why men were born: but surely we are brave,
  Who take the Golden Road to Samarkand.”

“Sweet maid, if thou wouldst charm my sight,
And bid these arms thy neck infold;
That rosy cheek, that lily hand,
Would give thy poet more delight
Than all Bocara’s vaunted gold,
Than all the gems of Samarcand.”

“The almond groves of Samarcand,
  Bokhara, where red lilies blow,
And Oxus, by whose yellow sand
  The grave white-turbaned merchants go;”