Difference between revisions of "Pre-Islamic Arab poetry"
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Is it Umm Awfa's, this unspeaking ruin \\ | Is it Umm Awfa's, this unspeaking ruin \\ | ||
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And that abode of hers at Raqmatayn, resembling \\ | And that abode of hers at Raqmatayn, resembling \\ | ||
retraced tattoo marks among the veins of the wrist? | retraced tattoo marks among the veins of the wrist? | ||
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'''Boasting''' | '''Boasting''' | ||
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That we are the ones who feed when we have means, \\ | That we are the ones who feed when we have means, \\ | ||
And we the ones who ravage when we are tested. | And we the ones who ravage when we are tested. | ||
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Revision as of 01:14, 21 September 2006
Weeping over the ruins
Is it Umm Awfa's, this unspeaking ruin \\ in the rocky plain between Darraj and Mutatallam?
And that abode of hers at Raqmatayn, resembling \\ retraced tattoo marks among the veins of the wrist?
--Zuhayr (d. 609)
Boasting
Well have the Ma`addi tribes experienced \
when on their plain the tents are pitched
That we are the ones who feed when we have means, \\ And we the ones who ravage when we are tested.
--Amr ibn Kulthum
