Jerusalem (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
I wept until my tears were dryI prayed until the candles flickeredI knelt until the floor creakedI asked about Mohammed ...
I wept until my tears were dryI prayed until the candles flickeredI knelt until the floor creakedI asked about Mohammed ...
STATESMAN, I thank thee! and, if yet dissentMingles, reluctant, with my large content,I cannot censure what was nobly meant.But, while ...
SHRUNKEN little bodies, pallid baby faces,Eyes of staring terror, innocence defiled,Tiny bones that strew the sand of silent places,- This ...
No change of time shall ever shockMy firm affection, Lord, to Thee;For Thou hast always been a Rock,A Fortress and ...
Oh! sweet it is to know, to feel, In all our gloom and wand'rings here,No night of sorrow can conceal Man from ...
Pale youth with burning gaze,I give you three commandments now:Follow the first: don't live by the present,The future is a ...
THE RIVAL SUITORSWainamoinen, old and truthful,Long considered, long debated,How to woo and win the daughterOf the hostess of Pohyola,How to ...
Through the lattice rushes the south wind, dense With fumes of the flowery frankincense From hawthorn blossoming thickly; And gold ...
Speak kindly, wife; the little ones will grow Fairest and straightest in the warmest sun. We talk so often ...
PROUD is the state of its millions of men, And proud is the state of its name; In its borders ...
Hear ye my statute, men of Attica-- Ye who of bloodshed judge this primal cause; Yea, and in ...
The root is hard to looseFrom hold of earth by mortals; but God's powerCan all things do. 'Tis black, but ...
Mohay apnay hi rung mein rung lay,Tu to saaheb mera Mehboob-e-Ilaahi;Mohay apnay hi rung mein..Humri chundariya, piyaa ki pagariya,Woh to ...
In whatsoever place residesGood Temper, she o'er all presides;The most obdurate heart she guides.Even Anger yields unto her power,And sullen ...
O that a fortnight's Truce of God might sound!O that this land of eloquence and witIn the rich tones that ...
We are to be the stewards of God's mysteries the ones to safeguard his secrets, the majesty of creation the ...
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered ...
The glory of ships is an old, old song, since the days when the sea-rovers ran In their open boats ...
You dare to say with perjured lips, "We fight to make the ocean free"? You, whose black trail of butchered ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Art thou indeed among these, Thou of the tyrannous crew, The kingdoms fed upon blood, O queen from of old ...
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