Difference between revisions of "Umayyad poetry"

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Ghazal (erotic love)

Bring her out, swaying like a wild cow \\ Amid five of her age, with swelling breasts.

A cloistered one is she, the texture of her cheeks \\ Suffused with the water of youth.

...

"Do you love her?" they asked. Said I, "Much -- \\ To the number of stars and peblles and grains of dust!"

Her fatal charms, her neck, enhanced \\ By a colouring that glittered like gold,

Recalled the glory of the sun \\ Emerging from darkness and clouds.

-- Umar ibn Abi Rabi`a (644-712 or 721)

al-Hubb al-`Udhri (platonic love)

By God, I can see that many a tear \\ As our parting extends shall more profusely flow.

If I say, "The love in me, o Buthayna, is fatal to me," \\ She answers, "It abides, and shall increase."

If I say, "Restore some of my reason that I may live \\ Among me," she answers, "Far is it from your reach!"

So neither was I refused what I came requseting \\ Nor does her love, among all things that perish, perish

--Jamil ibn Ma`mar (d. 701)

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+'''Ghazal (erotic love)'''
 Bring her out, swaying like a wild cow \\
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 -- Umar ibn Abi Rabi`a (644-712 or 721)
+'''al-Hubb al-`Udhri (platonic love)'''
+By God, I can see that many a tear \\
+As our parting extends shall more profusely flow.
+If I say, "The love in me, o Buthayna, is fatal to me," \\
+She answers, "It abides, and shall increase."
+If I say, "Restore some of my reason that I may live \\
+Among me," she answers, "Far is it from your reach!"
+So neither was I refused what I came requseting \\
+Nor does her love, among all things that perish, perish
+--Jamil ibn Ma`mar (d. 701)