Quatrains (James Benjamin Kenyon Poems)
The Bedouins Of The SkiesYON clouds that roam the deserts of the air, On wind-swift barbs, o'er many an azure plain,Scarce ...
The Bedouins Of The SkiesYON clouds that roam the deserts of the air, On wind-swift barbs, o'er many an azure plain,Scarce ...
As Islam's Prophet, when his last day drewNigh to its close, besought all men to sayWhom he had wronged, to ...
THAT Arabs through the realms of spaceMay wander on, light-hearted,Great Allah hath, to all their race,Four favours meet imparted.The turban ...
HE knows Queen Lab, her isle,And black, enormous Kaf,The Swallow, and "Allah"He criesAs into Giaour landsWith Dervish faith and rite,Hueless, ...
BULBUL'S song, through night hours cold,Rose to Allah's throne on high;To reward her melody,Giveth he a cage of gold.Such a ...
AH! I remember when I was a girl How my hair naturally used to curl, And how my aunt four ...
I Gloom! An October like November; August a hundred thousand hours, And all September, A hundred thousand, dragging sunlit days,And ...
Know, O dear readers, that the medicine of a disease is to remove theroot cause of that disease. Isa (Jesus ...
_Say Ar-Raheen! call Him "Compassionate,"_ _For He is pitiful to small and great_. 'Tis written ...
They tell of Arab maidens, who with singing low and sweetCan tame the green and crested snake to cower at ...
Behold, the wind of the Desert rose, Khamsin, in a shroud of sand,And swept the Libyan waste, across To far ...
Was I not thine when Allah spoke the word Which formed from smoke the sky? Were not our two hearts ...
There was a flower in ancient FezThat (so the glowing legend says)Has never lost its matchless lightFrom Summer dawn to ...
A white tomb in the desert,An Arab at his prayersBeside the Nile's dark water,Where the lone camel fares.An ibis on ...
Much I owe to the Lands that grew-- More to the Lives that fed-- But most to Allah Who gave ...
1898 Being a translation of the song that was made by a Mohammedanschoolmaster of Bengal Infantry (some time on service ...
Not with an outcry to Allah nor any complaining He answered his name at the muster and stood to the ...
A Rose, in tatters on the garden path, Cried out to God and murmured 'gainst His Wrath, Because a sudden ...
Trees in groves, Kine in droves, In ocean sport the scaly herds, Wedge-like cleave the air the birds, To northern ...
"Young girls in old Arabia were often buried alive next to their fathers, apparently as sacrifice to the goddesses of ...
As home from church we two did plod, "Grandpa," said Rosy, "What is God?" Seeking an answer to her mind, ...
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