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3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shamed is the bough of Bán by pace of her; * And harmed are lovers by the gaze of her. A moon she rose from murks, the hair of her, * A sun from locks the brow encase of her: Blest he she nights with by the grace of her, * Who dies in her with oath by days of her!"
},
{
... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Masrur, come is the time of Union and favour; so, as thou studiest my love to savour recite us some verses surpassing of flavour."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am taken: my heart bums with living flame For Union shorn whenas Severance came, In the love of a dams... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Excuse me awhile, till I fetch my cousins to witness the brother-bond between me and thee. Then he went forth and, privily returning behind the sitting-room, there took his station hard by a window which gave upon the saloon and whence he could watch them without their seeing hi... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bear our salams, O Dove, from this our stead * From lover to beloved far severčd! Bid him fro' me ne'er cease to yearn and mourn * O'er happy days and hours for ever fled: Eke I in grief shall ever mourn and yearn, * Dwelling on days of love and lustihead; Long was our joyance, ... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lord, empty House! to thee peace decree * Long we bore therein growth of misery: Would my life-thread were shorn in that safe abode * And o' night I had died in mine ecstasy! Home-sickness I mourn, and my strangerhood * Irks my soul, nor the riddle of future I ree. Would I w... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would I wot for what crime shot and pierced are we * Thro' the days with Estrangement's archery! O my heart's desire, to thy door I came * One day, when high waxt mine expectancy: But I found the home waste as the wold and void * And I 'plained my pine and groaned wretchedly: An... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Masrur, I conjure thee by Allah, turn back, lest my husband see us twain together!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Caravan-chief calleth loud o' night * Ere the Breeze bear his cry in the morning-light: They girded their loads and prepared to fare, * And hurried... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No breeze of Union to the lover blows * But moan he maketh burnt with fiery woes: The Zephyr fans him at the dawn o' day; * But when he wakes the horizon lonely shows: On bed of sickness strewn in pain he lies, * And weeps he bloody tears in burning throes, For the fair neighbou... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Spring-camp have ruth on mine overthrowing * My abjection, my leanness, my tears aye flowing, Waft the scented powder[FN#357] of breezes they breathe * In hope it cure heart of a grief e'er growing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Send this to Masrur, so he may know... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is the way to Consolation's door * How shall console him flames burn evermore? How pleasant were the days of yore all gone: * Would we had somewhat of those days of yore!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Keep it secret!"
}
] |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Peace be to her, who visits me in sleeping phantasy * Stirring desire and growing love to uttermost degree: Verily from that dream I rose with passion maddenčd * For sight of fairest phantom come in piece to visit me: Say me, can dreams declare the truth anent the maid I love, *... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fro' them inhale I scent of Ottar and of Bán; * So fare with heart which ecstasies of love unman: I'd heal thy longings (love-sick lover!) by return * To site of beauty void sans friend or mate to scan: But still it sickeneth me with parting's ban and bane * Minding mine olden p... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How oft bewailing the place shall be this coming and going, * While the House bemoaneth its builder with tear-flood ever a-flowing? Here was bestest joy ere fared my friend with the caravan hieing * And its dwellers and brightest-suns[FN#358] ne'er ceased in its walls a-glowing:... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Still cleaves to this homestead mine ecstasy, * And redoubled pine for its dwellers I dree; And I send to your quarters the tale of my love * And the cup of your love gave the Cup-boy to me. And for faring of you and your farness from home * My wounded lids are from tears ne'er ... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This letter to my lord and master I indite * the king of my heart and my secret sprite * Indeed, wakefulness agitateth me * and melancholy increaseth on me * and I have no patience to endure the absence of thee * O thou who excellest sun and moon in brilliancy * Desire of repose... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wither thy right, O smith, which made her bear * Those iron chains her hands and feet to wear! Thou hast ensoiled a lady soft and bright, * Marvel of marvels, fairest of the fair: Hadst thou been just, those anklets ne'er had been * Of iron: nay of purest gold they were: By Alla... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I and my love in union were unite; * And filled my friend to me cups clearly bright Between us reigned high mirth and jollity, * Nor Eve nor Morn brought 'noyance or affright Indeed we spent most joyous time, with cup * And lute and dulcimer to add delight, Till Time estranged o... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How can we go to him, seeing the door is locked on us and our feet shackled and the Jew hath the keys? The smith replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will make the keys for the padlocks and therewith open door and shackles. Asked she,"
},
{
"from": "huma... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O admirable of attributes and singular among beauties! Be not thy heart other than hearty for our doing thy desire and thy winning to thy will."
}
] |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rain showers of torrent tears, O Eyne and see * An they will quench the fires that flame in me: After my robes of gold-embroidered silk * I wake to wear the frieze of monkery: And all my raiment reeks of sulphur-fumes * When erst my shift shed musky fragrancy: And hadst thou, O ... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish to-day to make an excursion without the town on business there. So he mounted his she-mule and taking his page with him, went winding about the streets of the town, searching its length and width for Zayn al-Mawasif, but never finding her. On this errand he came upon the ... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stint ye this blame; enough I suffer from Love's malady * Nor chide the Kazi frail who fain must deal to folk decree! Who doth accuse my love let him for me find some excuse: * Nor blame; for lovers blameless are in lover-slavery! I was a Kázi whom my Fate deigned aid with choic... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perfect were lover's qualities in him was brought a-morn, * Slain by his love and his beloved, to this untimely grave: Kázi was he amid the folk, and aye 'twas his delight * To foster all the folk and keep a-sheath the Justice-glaive: Love caused his doom and ne'er we saw among ... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blighted by her yet am I not to blame; * Struck by the dart at me her fair hand threw. Unto me came a woman called Hubúb * Chiding the world from year to year anew: And brought a damsel showing face that shamed * Full moon that sails through Night-tide's blackest hue, She showed... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rest with us ten days and after wend your ways. So she and her damsels alighted and entered the convent; and when Danis saw her beauty and loveliness, she debauched his belief and he was seduced by her: wherefore he fell to sending the monks, one after other with love-messages; ... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Heard ye that? ; and Hubub answered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If the monks were ravished with love of thee, whose belief it is that shunning women is worship, how should it be with the Kazis, who hold that there is no monkery in Al-Islam? But let us make our wa... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ho ye, my friends, draw near, for I forthright * From you depart, since parting is my lot: My vitals suffer pangs o' fiery love; * Flames of desire in heart burn high and hot, For sake of fairest girl who sought our land * Whose charms th' horizon's full moon evens not. She fare... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My patience failed me when my lover went * And fled that day mine aim and best intent. O Guide o' litters lead their camels fair, * Haply some day they'll deign with me to tent! On parting-day Sleep parted from my lids * And grew my grieving and my joy was shent. I moan to Allah... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall I be consoled when Love hath mastered the secret of me * And my heart is aglow with more than the charcoal's ardency? I love her whose absence I plain before Allah for parting-stower * And the shifts of the days and doom which allotted me Destiny: When shall our meeting be... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two things there are, for which if eyes wept tear on tear * Of blood, till they were like indeed to disappear, They never could fulfil the Tithe of all their due: * And these are prime of youth and loss of loveling dear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alack and Alas!... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The world sware that for ever 'twould gar me grieve: *Tis false, O world, so thine oath retrieve[FN#375]! The blamer is dead and my love's in my arms: * Rise to herald of joys and tuck high thy sleeve[FN#376]!"
}
] |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A merchant I spied whose lovers * Were fighting in furious guise: Quoth he, 'Why this turmoil of people?' * Quoth I, 'Trader, for those fine eyes!'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Came a merchant to pay us a visit * Whose glance did my heart surprise: Quoth he, 'What ... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His mole upon plain of cheek is like * Ambergrís-crumb on marble plate, And his glances likest the sword proclaim * To all Love's rebels 'The Lord is Great!'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O my lord Nur al-Din, we wish thee to go this day a-pleasuring with us in such... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grapes tasting with the taste of wine * Whose coats like blackest Raven's shine: Their sheen, amid the leafage shows, * Like women's fingers henna'd fine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Grape-bunches likest as they sway * A-stalk, my body frail and snell: Honey and w... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Garth Heaven-watered wherein clusters waved * On boughs which full of sap to bend were fain: And, when the branches danced on Zephyr's palm, * The Pleiads shower'd as gifts[FN#381] fresh pearls for rain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come with us, friend, and enter ... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Zephyr breatheth o'er its branches, like * Fair girls that trip as in fair skirts they pace: Its rills resemble swords in hands of knights * Drawn from the scabbard and containing-case."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The streamlet swings by branchy wood and aye *... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Granados of finest skin, like the breasts * Of maid firm-standing in sight of male; When I strip the skin, they at once display * The rubies compelling all sense to quail."
}
] |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Apple which joins hues twain, and brings to mind * The cheek of lover and beloved combined: Two wondrous opposites on branch they show * This dark[FN#387] and that with hue incarnadined The twain embraced when spied the spy and turned * This red, that yellow for the shame design... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Welcome[FN#392] the Fig! To us it comes * Ordered in handsome plates they bring: Likest a Sufrah[FN#393]-cloth we draw * To shape of bag without a ring."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Give me the Fig sweet-flavoured, beauty-clad, * Whose inner beauties rival outer sh... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With thee that Pear agree, whose hue a-morn * Is hue of hapless lover yellow pale; Like virgin cloistered strait in strong Harím * Whose face like racing steed outstrips the veil."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Like Peach in vergier growing * And sheen of Andam[FN#39... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Three coats yon freshest form endue * God's work of varied shape and hue: Hardness surrounds it night and day; * Prisoning without a sin to rue."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Seest not that Almond plucked by hand * Of man from bough where wont to dwell: Peeling it s... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hast seen a Citron-copse so weighed adown * Thou fearest bending roll their fruit on mould; And seemed, when Zephyr passed athwart the tree * Its branches hung with bells of purest gold?"
}
] |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And Shaddock mid the garden-paths, on bough * Freshest like fairest damsel met my sight; And to the blowing of the breeze it bent * Like golden ball to bat of chrysolite."
}
] |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seest not the Lemon, when it taketh form, * Catch rays of light and all to gaze constrain; Like egg of pullet which the huckster's hand * Adorneth dyeing with the saffron-stain?"
}
] |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A fan whose breath is fraught with fragrant scent; * Minding of happy days and times forspent, Wafting at every time its perfumed air * O'er face of noble youth on honour bent."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What say ye, O my masters, to flowers? Quoth one of them,"
... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dawn heralds day-light: so wine pass round, * Old wine, fooling sage till his wits he tyne: Wot I not for its purest clarity * An 'tis wine in cup or 'tis cup in wine."
}
] |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Had she shown her shape to idolaters' sight, * They would gaze on her face and their gods detest: And if in the East to a monk she'd show'd, * He'd quit Eastern posture and bow to West.[FN#423] An she crached in the sea and the briniest sea * Her lips would give it the sweetest ... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She came apparelled in a vest of blue, That mocked the skies and shamed their azure hue; I thought thus clad she burst upon my sight, Like summer moonshine on a wintry night."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She came thick veiled, and cried I, 'O display * That face li... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A tree whilere was I the Bulbul's home * To whom for love I bowed my grass-green head: They moaned on me, and I their moaning learnt * And in that moan my secret all men read: The woodman felled me falling sans offence, * And slender lute of me (as view ye) made: But, when the f... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would they [FN#430] the lover seek without ado, * He to his heavy grief had bid adieu: With him had vied the Nightingale[FN#431] on bough * As one far parted from his lover's view: Rouse thee! awake! The Moon lights Union-night * As tho' such Union woke the Morn anew. This day t... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By his cheeks' unfading damask and his smiling teeth I swear, By the arrows that he feathers with the witchery of his air, By his sides so soft and tender and his glances bright and keen, By the whiteness of his forehead and the blackness of his hair, By his arched imperious eye... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A lutanist to us inclined * And stole our wits bemused with wine: And said to us her lute, 'The Lord * Bade us discourse by voice divine.'"
}
] |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He blames me for casting on him my sight * And parts fro' me bearing my life and sprite: He repels me but kens what my heart endures * As though Allah himself had inspired the wight: I portrayed his portrait in palm of hand * And cried to mine eyes, 'Weep your doleful plight.' F... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Moon, when he bends him those eyes lay bare * A brand that gars gazing gazelle despair: A King, rarest charms are the host of him * And his lance-like shape men with cane compare: Were his softness of sides to his heart transferred * His friend had not suffered such cark and c... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Methought she was the forenoon sun until she donned the veil * But lit she fire in vitals mine still flaring fierce and high, How had it hurt her an she deigned return my poor salám * With fingertips or e'en vouchsafed one little wink of eye? The cavalier who spied her face was ... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By the life o' thy face, O thou life o' my sprite! * I'll ne'er leave thy love for despair or delight: When art cruel thy vision stands hard by my side * And the thought of thee haunts me when far from sight: O who saddenest my glance albe weeting that I * No love but thy love w... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alas, alack and well-away for blamer's calumny! * Whether or not I make my moan or plead or show no plea: O spurner of my love I ne'er of thee so hard would deem * That I of thee should be despised, of thee my property. I wont at lovers' love to rail and for their passion chide,... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O beloved of my heart, in very sooth the gift is after the measure of the giver. So he accepted this from her and gave it back to her and kissed her on the mouth and cheeks and eyes. When this was ended and done, for naught is durable save the Living, the Eternal, Provider of th... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quoth I to a comrade one day, * A man of good speech and rare, 'Describe Alexandria.' * Quoth he, 'Tis a march-town fair.' Quoth I, 'Is there living therein?' * And he, 'An the wind blow there.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alexandria's a frontier;[FN#444] Whose de... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take this damsel and cry her for sale in the market."
}
] |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Vied the full moon for folly with her face, * But was eclipsed[FN#452] and split for rage full sore; And if the spiring Bán with her contend * Perish her hands who load of fuel bore!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Say to the fair in the wroughten veil * How hast made... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O most ill-omened of brokers, thou hast not brought into the market this ill-conditioned wench but to gibe me and make mock of me before the merchants. Then the broker took her aside and said to her,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O my lady, be not wanting in self-re... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O most ill-omened of brokers, this day thou hast brought to our market naught save this gibing baggage to flout at all who are therein, one after other, and fleer at them with flyting verse and idle jest? And he came down from his shop and smote on the face the broker who took h... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O scurviest of brokers, what aileth thee to bring us a damsel to flout and make mock of us, one after other, with her verses and talk that a curse is? So the broker took her and carried her away from before him and fared, saying,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By All... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wilt thou be sold to this one? She looked at him and said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In very sooth this man is blue-eyed;[FN#467] how wilt thou sell me to him?"
}
] |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whither goest thou with me? He answered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Back to thy master the Persian; it sufficeth me what hath befallen me because of thee this day; for thou hast been the means of spoiling both my trade and his by thine ill manners."
}
] |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Came to match him in beauty and loveliness rare * Full moons and gazelles but quoth I, 'Soft fare! Fare softly, gazelles, nor yourselves compare * With him and, O Moons, all your pains forbear!'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Slim-waisted loveling, from his hair and ... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will not yonder young merchant who is sitting among the traders in the gown of striped broadcloth bid somewhat more for me? The broker replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O lady of fair ones, yonder young man is a stranger from Cairo, where his father is chief of... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Waters of beauty o'er his cheeks flow bright, * And rain his glances shafts that sorely smite: Choked are his lovers an he deal disdain's * Bitterest draught denaying love-delight. His forehead and his stature and my love * Are perfect perfected perfection-dight; His raiment fol... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From her hair is Night, from her forehead Noon * From her side-face Rose; from her lip wine boon: From her Union Heaven, her Severance Hell: * Pearls from her teeth; from her front full Moon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A Moon she rises, Willow-wand she waves * Br... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is she I will never forget till I die * Nor draw near but to those who to her draw nigh. A being for semblance like Moon at full * Praise her Maker, her Modeller glorify! Tho' be sore my sin seeking love-liesse * On esperance-day ne'er repent can I; A couplet reciting which... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go, visit her thou lovest, and regard not The words detractors utter; envious churls Can never favour love. Oh! sure the merciful Ne'er make a thing more fair to look upon, Than two fond lovers in each other's arms, Speaking their passion in a mute embrace. When heart has turned... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Said I to Slim-waist who the wine engraced * Brought in musk-scented bowl and a superfine, 'Was it prest from thy cheek?' He replied 'Nay, nay! * When did man from Roses e'er press the Wine?'"
}
] |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Slim-waist craved wine from her companeer; * Cried (in meeting of friends when he feared for his fere,) 'An thou pass not the wine thou shalt pass the night, * A-banisht my bed!' And he felt sore fear."
}
] |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Carry this to the market and sell it for twenty dinars, even as thou soldest its fellow yesterday. So he went to the bazar and sold the girdle for twenty dinars, after which he repaired to the druggist and paid him back the eighty dirhams, thanking him for the bounties and calli... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nears my parting fro' my love, nigher draws the Severance-day * Ah well-away for parting! and again ah well-away! And in tway is torn my heart and O pine I'm doomed to bear * For the nights that erst witnessed our pleasurable play! No help for it but Envier the twain of us espy ... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ask a boon of me? She said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O my lord, I ask of thee that thou sell me not but to the man of my choice. He answered,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So be it. I guarantee thee. By Allah, O Miriam, I will not sell thee but t... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O dwelling of my friends say is there no return * Uswards? But what ken I of matters Allah made? Still fare the ships of Severance, sailing hastily * And in my wounded eyelids tear have ta'en their stead, For parting from a friend who was my wish and will * Healed every ill and ... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say me, will Union after parting e'er return to be * After long-lasting torments, after hopeless misery? Alas! Alas! what wont to be shall never more return * But grant me still return of dearest her these eyne may see. I wonder me will Allah deign our parted lives unite * And w... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Peace be with you, sans you naught compensateth me * The near, the far, two cases only here I see: I yearn for you at every hour and tide as yearns * For water-place wayfarer plodding wearily. With you abide my hearing, heart and eyen-sight * And (sweeter than the honeycomb) you... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall we e'er be unite after severance-tide * And return in the perfectest cheer to bide? In my heart indeed is a lowe of love * And I'm pained by the spies who my pain deride: My days I pass in amaze distraught, * And her image a-nights I would see by side: By Allah, no hour br... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say, will to me and you the Ruthful union show * My lords! Shall e'er I win the wish of me or no? A visit-boon by you will shifty Time vouchsafe? * And seize your image eye-lids which so hungry grow? With you were Union to be sold, I fain would buy; * But ah, I see such grace do... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By Allah, O Nur al-Din, indeed thou hast sinned against thyself, for I warned thee of this before it befell thee: yet wouldst thou not hearken to me, but followedst thine own lust: albeit that whereof I gave thee to know I learnt not by means of inspiration nor physiognomy[FN#52... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Like the full moon she shineth in garments all of green, With loosened vest and collars and flowing hair beseen. 'What is thy name?' I asked her, and she replied, 'I'm she Who roasts the hearts of lovers on coals of love and teen. I am the pure white silver, ay, and the gold whe... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I saw him strike the gong and asked of him straightway, * Who made the Fawn[FN#528] at striking going so knowing, eh?' And to my soul, 'What smiting irketh thee the more— * Striking the gong or striking note of going,[FN#529] say?'"
}
] |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ceasčd not to kiss that cheek with budding roses dight * And eyes down cast and bit the same with most emphatic bite; Until we were in gloria[FN#530] and lay him down the spy * And sank his eyes within his brain declining further sight: And struck the gongs as they that had th... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Welcome, O my hope and my desire and the end of mine every wish!"
}
] |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whoso's case is thus it behoveth him to walk the ways of men and never do the deed of curs and cowards. Now she was stout of heart and cunning in the sailing of ships over the salt sea, and she knew all the winds and their shiftings and every course of the main. So Nur al-Din sa... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whoso stealeth us one of these stallions, we will give him all he seeketh of red gold and pearls and gems; but none could avail to steal them. Now one of them fell sick of a jaundice and there came a whiteness over his eyes;[FN#553] whereupon the King gathered together all the f... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O my Censor who wakest a-morn to see * The joys of life and its jubilee! Had the fangs of Destiny bitten thee * In such bitter case thou hadst pled this plea, 'Ah me, for Love and his case, ah me: My heart is burnt by the fires I dree!' But from Fate's despight thou art safe thi... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My life is gone but love-longings remain * And my breast is straitened with pine and pain: And my heart for parting to melt is fain * Yet hoping that union will come again, And join us in one who now are twain. Stint your blame to him who in heart's your thrall * With the wasted... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My heart is a thrall; my tears ne'er abate * And their rains the railing of clouds amate; 'Twixt my weeping and watching and wanting love; * And whining and pining for dearest mate. Ah my burning heat, my desire, my lowe! * For the plagues that torture my heart are eight; And fi... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope for Union with my love which I may ne'er obtain * At all, but bitterness of life is all the gain I gain: My tears are likest to the main for ebb and flow of tide; * But when I meet the blamer-wight to staunch my tears I'm fain. Woe to the wretch who garred us part by spel... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I longed for him I love; but, when we met, * I was amazed nor tongue nor eyes I found. I had got ready volumes of reproach; * But when we met, could syllable no sound."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By Allah, this is the chanting of the Lady Miriam."
}
] |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blue River ) by"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blue Nile."
}
] |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Arabian Odyssey Sindbad the Seaman; only the Bassorite's travels are in Jinn-land and Japan. It has points of resemblance in"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "with the Persian Romance of the Fairy Hasan Bánú and King Bahrám-i-Gúr. See also the Kathá (s.s.) and the two s... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Al-Kír, a bellows also = Kúr, a furnace. For the full meaning of this sentence, see my"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Book of the Sword,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sabíkah = bar, lamina, from"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sabk"
},
{... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kurbán,"
}
] |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bahriyah : in Bresl. Edit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nawátíyah."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yá Khwájah,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tabl (vulg. baz) = a kettle-drum about half a foot broad held in the left hand and beaten with a s... |
3442 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Al-Alwán, plur. of laun (colour). The latter in Egyptian Arabic means a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "See Burckhardt No. 279. I repeat that the great traveller's"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Arabic Proverbs"
}
] |
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