Lalla Rookh is an Oriental romance by Irish poet Thomas Moore, published in 1817. The title is taken from the name of the heroine of the frame tale, the (fictional) daughter of the 17th-century Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. The work consists of four narrative poems with a connecting tale in prose. The name Lalla Rookh or Lala-Rukh (Persian: لاله رخ laleh rox/rukh) is an endearment frequently used in Persian poetry.