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3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Strange is the charm which dights her brows like Luna's disk that shine; * O sweeter taste than sweetest Robb[FN#6] or raisins of the vine. A throne th'Empyrean keeps for her in high and glorious state, * For wit and wisdom, wandlike form and graceful bending line: She in the He... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Time hath shattered all my frame, * Oh! how time hath shattered me. Time with lordly might can tame * Manly strength and vigour free. Time was in my youth, that none * Sped their way more fleet and fast: Time is and my strength is gone, * Youth is sped, and speed is past.[FN#9]"... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A moon which blights you[FN#12] if you dare behold; * A branch which folds you in its waving fold: Locks of the Zanj[FN#13] and golden glint of hair; * Sweet gait and form a spear to have and hold: Ah! hard of heart with softest slenderest waist, * That evil to this weal why not... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the fifth day I quitted al my friends for evermore, * And they laid me out and washed me on a slab without my door:[FN#22] They stripped me of the clothes I was ever wont to wear, * And they clothed me in the clothes which till then I never wore. On four men's necks they bore... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the fifth day at even-tide they went away from me: * I farewelled them as faring they made farewell my lot: But my spirit as they went, with them went and so I cried, * 'Ah return ye!' but replied she, 'Alas! return is not To a framework lere and lorn that lacketh blood and l... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Know, O Steward, it is my desire that so long as thou hast money enough for my breakfast, thou trouble me not with taking thought about my supper. Thereupon the Steward asked,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Must it be so? ; and he answered,"
},
{
"from": "hum... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou deemedst well of Time when days went well, * And feardest not what ills might deal thee Fate: Thy nights so fair and restful cozened thee, * For peaceful nights bring woes of heavy weight."
}
] |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is gone who when to his gate thou go'st, * Fed thy famisht maw with his boiled and roast."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By Allah, there is no help but that I make trial of them all: perchance there be one amongst them who will stand me in the stead of all the res... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Like a tree is he who in wealth doth wone, * And while fruits he the folk to his fruit shall run: But when bared the tree of what fruit it bare, * They leave it to suffer from dust and sun. Perdition to all of this age! I find * Ten rogues for every righteous one."
}
] |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stay! grant one parting look before we part, * Nerving my heart this severance to sustain: But, an this parting deal thee pain and bane, * Leave me to die of love and spare thee pain!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O Hájj Hasan,[FN#29] I pray thee note the value of h... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Watch some tall ship, she'll joy the sight of thee, * The breeze outstripping in her haste to flee; As when a bird, with widely-spreading wings, * Leaveth the sky to settle on the sea."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Make search for them both, wherever they may be; an... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Ja'afar, never beheld I yet men of piety in such case; so do thou mount this tree and look upon them, lest the blessings of the blest be lost to thee. Ja'afar, hearing the words of the Commander of the Faithful and being confounded by them, climbed to the tree- top and looking... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O ye that can aid me, a wretched lover, * Whom longing burns nor can rest restore me! Though all you have done I have well deserved, * I take refuge with you, so exult not o'er me: True, I am weak and low and vile, * But I'll bear your will and whatso you bore me: My death at yo... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is the least of the retribution for him who imposeth upon Kings with forgeries. And they ceased not parading him round about Bassorah, till they made him stand beneath the palace-windows and set him upon the leather of blood,[FN#74] and the sworder came up to him and said,"... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In thought I see thy form when farthest far or nearest near; * And on my tongue there dwells a name which man shall ne'er unhear."
}
] |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O fertile root and noble growth of trunk; * Ripe-fruitful branch of never sullied race; I mind thee of what pact thy bounty made; * Far be 't from thee thou should'st forget my case!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who art thou? and she replied,"
},
{
"from": ... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who will buy this slave, knowing his blemish and making allowance for it? He did so and they asked him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pray, what may be his blemish? and he answered,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He telleth me one single lie every year... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O my lord, bring us something to eat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On my head and mine eyes! replied he; and, going down to the bazar, bought a roasted lamb and a dish of sweetmeats and with these dry fruits and wax candles, besides wine and whatsoever was required... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The lover's heart for his beloved must meet * Sad pain, and from her charms bear sore defeat: What is Love's taste? They asked and answered I, * Sweet is the aste but ah! 'tis bitter sweet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou hast desolated me, O beloved of my heart.... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The lover's heart is like to break in twain: * Till when these coy denials ah! till when? O thou who fliest me sans fault of mine, * Gazelles are wont at times prove tame to men: Absence, aversion, distance and disdain, * How shall young lover all these ills sustain?"
},
{
... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O my darling, O my Ghanim! how great is thy goodness and how chaste is thy nature! thou didst well by one who did ill by thee and thou guardedst his honour who garred thine become dishonour, and his Harim thou didst protect who to enslave thee and thine did elect! But thou shalt... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May that Monarch's life span a mighty span, * Whose lavish of largesse all lieges scan: None other but he shall be Kaysar hight, * Lord of lordly hall and of haught Divan: Kings lay their gems on his threshold-dust * As they bow and salam to the mighty man; And his glances foil ... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And what was their story? and she answered: It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that there was in the City of Safety, Baghdad, before the Caliphate of Abd al-Malik bin Marwán,[FN#139] a King, Omar bin al-Nu'umán hight, who was of the mighty giants and had subjected the Chosro... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O King, there is nothing better to do in this matter than equip an army valiant and victorious, and set over it thy son Sharrkan with us as his lieutenants; and this rede commendeth itself to me on two counts; first, because the King of Roum hath invoked thine assistance and hat... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Most beautiful is earth in budding bloom, * When lucid waters course through plain and wood: No work but His th' All great, th' All glorious, * Giver of all gifts, Giver of all good!"
}
] |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The mead is bright with what is on't * Of merry maidens debonnair: Double its beauty and its grace * Those trooping damsels slender-fair: Virgins of graceful swimming gait * Ready with eye and lip to ensnare; And like the tendril'd vine they loose * The rich profusion of their h... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She beamed on my sight with a wondrous glance, * And her straight slender stature enshamed the lance: She burst on my sight with cheeks rosy-red, * Where all manner of beauties have habitance: And the locks on her forehead were lowering as night * Whence issues a dawn-tide of ha... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An faulty of one fault the Beauty prove, * Her charms a thousand advocates shall move."
}
] |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ascend, O my lord, this throne. So he went up to it and sat down and she withdrew to remain absent for some time. Sharrkan asked of her from one of the servants who answered him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She hath gone to her dormitory; but we will serve thee ev... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am not lost to prudence, but indeed * Here I'm bewildered, what shall be my rede? Would any aid me in mine ails of love, * By my own might and sleight would I be free'd: But ah! my heart is lost and passion-shent: * To none save Allah can I trust my need!"
},
{
"from":... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Marjanah[FN#188]! bring us some instruments of music!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To hear is to obey,"
}
] |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Allah assain those eyne! What streams of blood they shed! * How many an arrowy glance those lids of thine have sped. I love all lovers who to lovers show them dure; * 'Twere wrong to rue the love in wrong-head born and bred: Haply fall hapless eye for thee no sleeping kens! * He... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And indeed, quoth she,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then she asked Sharrkan saying,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Prince, dost thou know aught of Jamíl's[FN#194] verses to Buthaynah? if so repeat to us somewhat of them; and he answered,"
},
{
... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He pluckt fruits of her necklace in rivalry, * And her breast-pearls that bedded in gold-mine lie. Pure water on silvern bars is her brow, * And her cheeks show roses with rubies vie: Meseems in her eyne that the violet's hue * Lies purpling set in the Ithmid's[FN#196] dye."
}... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Twixt the close-tied and open-wide no medium Fortune knoweth, * Now ebb and flow then flow and ebb this wise her likeness showeth. Then drink her wine the syne she's thine and smiling thou dost find her * Anon she'll fall and fare away when all thy good forth goeth."
}
] |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ne'er incline thee to part * Which embitters the heart; E'en the sun when he sets * Shall in pallor depart."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou hast fallen into our hands, O Sharrkan, so make thee sure of death! When he heard this, he said to himself,"
},
{
"... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I bade adieu, my right hand wiped my tears away, * The while my left hand held her in a close embrace: 'Fearest thou naught,' quoth she, 'of shame?' I answered 'Nay, * The lover's parting day is lover's worst disgrace.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let us at once l... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She hath parted from her sire and departed from her reign and hath chosen to take part with us and make her abode with us; And indeed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "the King of Constantinople hath plotted to do us a mischief, because of his daughter Sophia, for that... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It remaineth for me only that I yield me to negro slaves, after having refused Kings and Braves! And she was wroth with him and cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Woe to thee! what words are these thou sayest? Out on thee, and talk not thus in my presence and know... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ho thou, Abrizah, mercy! leave me not for I * Of thy love and Yamáni[FN#225] glance the victim lie My heart is cut to pieces by thy cruelty, * My body wasted and my patience done to die: From glances ravishing all hearts with witchery * Reason far flies, the while desire to thee... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How could the lady leave the palace unknown of any? Had my kingdom been at stake in this case, it were in perilous condition there being none to govern it! I will never again go to sport and hunt till I have stationed at the gates those who shall keep good guard over them! And h... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In love they bore me further than my force would go, * And for them made me suffer resurrection-throe: Oh, have compassion, cruel! on this soul of mine * Which, since ye fared, is pitied by each envious foe; Nor grudge the tender mercy of one passing glance * My case to lighten,... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh ye gone from the gaze of these ridded eyne, * Ye whose sight in my spirit shall ever dwell! Your charms are gone, but this heart of me * Hath no sweet, and no pleasures its sour dispel; If Allah's grace make us meet again, * In long drawn love-tale my love I'll tell."
},
... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get thee provaunt in this world ere thou wend upon thy way, * And know how surely Death descends thy life lot to waylay: All thy worldly goods are pride and the painfullest repine; * All thy worldly life is vexing, of thy soul in vain display: Say is not worldly wone like a wand... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dark falls the night and Passion comes sore pains to gar me dree, * And pine upstirs those ceaseless pangs which work my tormentry, And cease not separation flames my vitals to consume, * And drives me on destruction way this sorrow's ecstacy And longing breeds me restlessness; ... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Time hath for his wont to upraise and debase, * Nor is lasting condition for human race: In this world each thing hath appointed turn; * Nor may man transgress his determined place: How long these perils and woes? Ah woe * For a life, all woeful in parlous case! Allah bless not ... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whatso thou doest is right! and, about midnight when hunger burned her,[FN#244] she ate a very little of that barley bread and the Badawi ordered his party to set out; so they loaded their loads and he mounted a camel setting Nuzhat al-Zaman behind him. Then they journeyed and c... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O my mistress, what is thy name? She answered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Doss thou ask what is my name this day or what it was before this day? Thereupon the merchant enquired,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hast thou then two names: to-day's and y... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Allah, where'er thou be, His aid impart * To thee, who distant dwellest in my heart! Allah be near thee how so far thou fare; * Ward off all shifts of Time, all dangers thwart! Mine eyes are desolate for thy vanisht sight, * And start my tears-ah me, how fast they start! Would H... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And pity one who erst in honour throve, * And now is fallen into sore disgrace. She weeps and bathes her cheeks with railing tears, * And asks 'What cure can meet this fatal case?'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By the Almighty, do not leave me with a tyrant who know... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All is for thee and I ask nothing of thee in return but that, when I lead thee to the Sultan, Viceroy of Damascus, thou acquaint him with the price I paid for thee, albeit it was little compared with thy value: and, if seeing thee he buy thee of me, thou tell him how I have deal... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see all power of sleep from eyes of me hath flown; * Say, did thy parting teach these eyne on wake to wone? What makes thy memory light such burnings in my heart? * Hath every lover strength such memories to own? How sweet the big dropped cloud which rained on summer day; * 'T... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Love smote my frame so sore on parting day, * That severance severed sleep and eyes for aye. I waxt so lean that I am still a man, * But for my speaking, thou wouldst never say."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This cometh from her who is far from her folk and her nati... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And all this is a section of the chapter of good breeding, and know O King, that Muaykib was intendant of the public treasury during the Caliphate of Omar bin al-Khattáb,"
}
] |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Know, O King, that in this chapter be so many instances of admonition that of a truth I cannot report all appertaining to this head in a single sitting but, with length of days, O King of the age, all will be well. There said the Kazis,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And send to us the damsel to the end that she may dispute with them before the doctors and, if she prevail over them, I will return her to thee accompanied with the tribute of Baghdad. As soon as Sharrkan knew the contents, he went in to his brother in law and said to him,"
},... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sweetheart! How long must I await by so long suffering teed? * Nor cometh messenger to tell me where thou dost abide: Ah me! in very sooth our meeting time was short enow: * Would Heaven shorter prove to me the present parting-tide! Now trend my hand and open my robe and thou wi... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is thy will? Quoth she,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Arise and bring me him who recited verses but now. Replied he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of a truth I did not hear him"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go, fetch me the man who i... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Woe to thee! He who recited the first time hath recited a second time and I heard him hard by. By Allah, an thou fetch him not to me, I will assuredly rouse the Chamberlain on thee, and he shall beat thee and cast thee out. But take these hundred dinars and give them to the sing... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Peace be with thee, O my lord!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And on thee be peace, replied Zau al-Makan,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O my lord,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O my lord, I hav... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Long I lamented that we fell apart, * While tears repentant railed from these eyne; And sware, if Time unite us twain once more, * 'Severance' shall never sound from tongue of mine: Joy hath so overwhelmed me that excess * Of pleasure from mine eyes draws gouts of brine: Tears, ... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh would I knew what is become of him! ; ere he had done speaking the Castrato was standing by his head and his side muscles quivered for fear and he lifted up his voice and cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Verily he knoweth not the value of the good offices I h... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Verily your tale is a wonder of wonders! Know, O Chief Wazir, that here, where you have encountered me, Allah hath given you rest from fatigue and bringeth you your desire after the easiest of fashions, for that His Almighty Will restoreth to you Zau al-Makan and his sister Nuzh... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And quoth the maiden to thy father, 'Bishr Barefoot's sister once went to Ahmad bin Hanbal and said to him, 'O Imam of the Faith, we are a family that spin thread by night and work for our living by day; and oftentimes the cressets of the watch of Baghdad pass by and we on the r... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now when came the day for the Sultan's fast, the old woman went her ways. And after he had accomplished the ten days thereof, on the eleventh he opened the gugglet and drank what was therein and found it cordial to his stomach. Within the second ten days of the month the old wom... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hast thou requited the Fireman for his kindness? ; and he answered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O my brother, I have not rewarded him as yet, but Inshallah! I will recompense him whenas I return from this raid and find time so to do. Therewith Sharrkan was certifi... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I desire thou go out against Sharrkan, King of Damascus, son of Omar bin al-Nu'uman, and deliver us from this affliction. Quoth Luka,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hearkening and obedience; and the King made the sign of the cross on his forehead and felt assured of ... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By the truth of Him who created the sevenfold skies, I will assuredly make this cursed wight a byword for mankind to despise! Then threw he the throw spear at Luka, who thought to do as Sharrkan had done and put forth his hand to trend it in mid flight; but Sharrkan prevented hi... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alas! and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Woe worth the day! and called upon the Abbots of the monasteries and cried,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where be the crosses? So the Religious offered up prayers and the Christians all drew together against Sh... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Laud not long hair,[FN#402] except it be dispread * In two fold locks, on day of fight and fray, O'er youth who bears his lance 'twixt flank and thigh, * From many a whis kered knight to win the day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I say to him, what while he slings h... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O King, we have no need of the Chief Patriarch nor of his prayers, but will consult my mother's counsel and observe what she will do with her craft unending against the Moslem hosts; for these are marching with all their power, they will soon be upon us and they will encircle us... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To slay my foes is chiefest bliss I wist, * And on the courser's back be borne a list; Comes promising tryst a messenger from friend * Full oft, when comes the friend withouten tryst."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "War for my mother (an I live) I'll take; * Spear for... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Behold this lovely garden! 'tis as though * Spring o'er its frame her greeny cloak had spread. Looking with fleshly eyne, thou shalt but sight * A lake whose waters balance in their bed, But look with spirit eyes and lo! shalt see * Glory in every leaf o'erwaves thy head."
},
... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our Fort is Tor,[FN#423] and flames the fire of fight: * Moses art thou and this is time for aid: Cast down thy rod, 'twill swallow all they wrought, * Nor dread for men their ropes be vipers made.[FN#424] For Chapters read on fight day lines of foes, * And on their necks 'grave... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When shall these battle days have an end? We are weary of warring the Moslems. And quoth one of them,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Up and at them, for there remain of them but five and twenty men! If we cannot prevail on them to fight, let us light a fire upon them... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I long that ye fall in with this my plan, for naught save good can come of it. So they agreed thereon and clomb the mountain head and shouted,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Allaho Akbar! ; and hills and trees and rocks re worded their Allaho Akbar for fear of the Al... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be praises mine to all praiseworthy Thee, * O Lord, who stinted not mine aid to be! Though was I lost abroad, Thou west to me * Strongest support which vouchsafed victory: Thou gav'st me wealth and reign and goodly gifts, * And slungest con quering sword of valiancy: Thou mad'st... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He prayeth and he fasteth for an end he doth espy; * When once his end is safely won then fast and prayer good bye."
}
] |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me down a cord that I may tie thereto this letter, and do ye bear it to your King Afridun, that he may read it and to my son King Hardub that they both do what is written therein of bidding and forbidding. So they let down for her a string and she tied thereto a letter whose... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May the Messiah strengthen thy fore arm and never cease to be thy helper and hearken to what prayers my pious mother, Zat al-Dawahi, shall pray for thee! Know that the Moslems can make no stay without Sharrkan. Replied Afridun,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To morro... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Allaho Akbar! (God is most Great) and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is no god but the God! , and invoked salvation for the Prophet, the Bringer of Glad Tidings, the Bearer of Bad Tidings. And there befel a great fight, but Allah assigned victory to the Faithfu... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whatso is not to be no sleight shall bring to pass; * What is to be without a failure shall become; Soon the becoming fortune shall be found to be, * And Folly's brother[FN#453] shall abide forlorn and glum."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now is my back strengthened,... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They bore him bier'd, and all who followed wept * With Moses' shrieks what day o'erhead shook Tor;[FN#456] Till reached the grave which Pate had made his home, * Dug in men's souls who one sole God adore: Ne'er had I thought before to see my joy * Borne on the bier which heads o... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pain leaving life that fleets thou hast th' eternal won; * Thou didst as whilom many a doer like thee hath done Leftest this worldly house without reproach or blame; * Ah, may th' ex change secure thee every benison! Thou west from hostile onset shield and firm defence, * For us... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where gone is Bounty since thy hand is turned to clay? * And I in misery lie since thou west ta'en away. See'st not, O litter guide[FN#457] (Heaven keep thee glad and gay!), * How tears adorn my cheeks, these furrowed wrinkles fray? A sight to joy shine eyes and fill thee with d... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is my counsel, O King, that thou despatch to her father an ambassador, sagacious, experienced and trained in the ways of the world, who shall courteously demand her in marriage for thee of her sire; for in good sooth she hath not her equal in the far parts of the world nor in... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He cometh robed and bending gracefully: * O'er crop and cropper dews of grace sheds he: He charms; nor characts, spells nor gramarye * May fend the glances of those eyne from thee: Say to the blamer, Blame me not, for I * From love of him will never turn to flee"
},
{
"f... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the towering forts Allah throned him King, * A lion, a star in the skies of reign: At his rising the spear and the throne rejoiced, * The gazelle, the ostrich, The men of main:[FN#465] Mount him not on the paps, for right soon he'll show * That to throne on the war steed's lo... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is Caliph of Beauty in Yúsufs lieu, * And all lovers fear when they sight his grace: Pause and gaze with me; on his cheek thou'lt sight * The Caliphate's banner of sable hue."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thy sight hath never seen a fairer sight, * Of all things ... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Longsome is Absence; Care and Fear are sore, * And ceaseless tears, O friend, mine eyes outpour: Yea, I farewelled my heart on parting day * And heartless, hopeless, now I bide forlore: Pause, O my friend, with me farewelling one * Whose words my cure can work, my health restore... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beware her glance I rede thee, 'tis like wizard wight, * None can escape unscathed those eye shafts' glancing flight: In very sooth black eyes, with languorous sleepy look, * Pierce deeper than white swords however these may bite. Be not thy senses by her sweets of speech beguil... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By what thine eyelids show of Kohl and coquetry! * By what thy shape displays of lissome symmetry! By what thy liplets store of honey-dew and wine! * By what thy mind adorns of gracious kindly gree! To me thy sight dream-visioned, O my hope! exceeds * The happiest escape from ho... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When shall be healed of thee this heart that ever bides in woe? * Than thee the Pleiad-stars more chance of happy meeting show Parting and banishment and longing pain and lowe of love, * Procrastinating[FN#478] and delay these ills my life lay low: Nor union bids me live in joy,... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now blame him not; for blame brings only irk and pain! * Indeed, I spake him sooth but ne'er his ear could gain: May Allah guard my moon which riseth in the vale * Beside our camp, from loosed robe like skyey plain:[FN#479] I left him but had Love vouchsafed to leave for me * So... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His cheek down writeth (O fair fall the goodly scribe!) * Two lines on table of his face in Rayhán-hand:[FN#486] O the wild marvel of the Moon when comes he forth! * And when he bends, O shame to every Willow-wand!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His cheek down writet... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What said she, and what signs made she to thee? I answered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She uttered not a word, but put her fore finger in her mouth, then joining it to her middle finger, laid both fingers on her bosom and pointed to the ground. Thereupon she with... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O my cousin, as for her sign to thee with her palm and five fingers its interpretation is, Return after five days; and the putting forth of her head out of the window, and her gestures with the mirror and the letting down and raising up and wringing out of the red kerchief,[FN#4... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The longing of an Arab lass forlorn of kith and kin * (Who to Hijazian Willow-wand and myrtle[FN#497] doth incline, And who, when meeting caravan, shall with love-lowe set light * To bivouac fire, and bang for conk her tears of pain and pine) Exceeds not mine for him nor more de... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I number nights; indeed I count night after night; * Yet lived I long ere learnt so sore accompt to see, ah! Dear friend, I compass not what Allah pleased to doom * For Laylá, nor what Allah destined for me, ah! To other giving her and unto me her love, * What loss but Layla's l... |
3436 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hearing is obeying!"
}
] |
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