Crossword-Solution: GULISTAN 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

That eve—that eve—I should remember well— The sun-ray dropp’d, in Lemnos, with a spell On th’Arabesque carving of a gilded hall Wherein I sate, and on the draperied wall— And on my eye-lids—O the heavy light! How drowsily it weigh’d them into night! On flowers, before, and mist, and love they ran With Persian Saadi in his Gulistan: But O that light!—I slumber’d—Death, the while, Stole o’er my senses in that lovely isle So softly that no single silken hair Awoke that slept—or knew that it was there.

Two out of the six actually done: The Beharistan and The Gulistan, and the whole of the nine still in manuscript, might, after a snip or two with the scissors, be read aloud in almost any company.

ALCOCK GREENEAWAY (Ralph), mentioned GREENWICH, mentioned GRESHAM (Sir John), mentioned GULISTAN, mentioned GULLISTONE.

See _Gulistan_ GULLS, plentiful GULOIN, a strange beast GWINNE (Robert), mentioned GWINNE (Richard), mentioned HALGELAND; mentioned HAMANE (William), mentioned HAMBURGH receives wax from Russia HAMEL, quoted HAMMERFEST, its situation HANDCOCKS (Thomas), mentioned HANS TOWNS endeavour to stop English trade with Russia HANTE (Thomas), mentioned HARWICH, mentioned HASEL (Thomas), mentioned HASSE (John), mentioned, HIS ACCOUNT OF RUSSIAN COINS, ETC.

Barff's garden-house, where the grounds were bright and beautiful with balsam and mignonette, dahlias and cyclamens, chrysanthemums and oleanders, jasmine and double-violets, orange-blossoms, and a perfect Gulistan of roses, roses of York and Lancaster, white, pink, and purple, yellow and green--a perfumed spring in dreary December.