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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ABSTINENT LOVER, by ABUL BAHR First Line: Beautiful is she Last Line: On my throat was raining. | |||
Beautiful is she, Beauty all excelling, A world of witchery In her gestures dwelling. Fairer than the moon Which, her charms so slender Beholding, craves the boon Humbly to attend her. See, the shining grace Of its crescent golden Is but her radiant face In a glass beholden. On her cheek the mole Punctuates and stresses The calligraphic scroll Lettered by her tresses. As I lay at night Nigh to her, night fashioned Two fires: her beauty bright, And my sighs impassioned. Like as o'er his gold Palpitates the miser, So yearned I in my hold Wholly to comprise her. Yea, I bound her well In my ardent rapture, Afraid lest my gazelle Should escape my capture. Yet I kissed her not, Chastity denying My lust, a furnace hot In my bosom sighing. Marvel, if you will: I, of thirst complaining, While yet the healing rill On my throat was raining. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PHILLIS'S AGE by MATTHEW PRIOR HAMPTON BEACH by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 46. AL-WASI'H by EDWIN ARNOLD PRAYER by EVGENY ABRAMOVICH BARATYNSKY THE LIFE-POWER by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON |
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