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Destiny will bring the bowl of sleep - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan I" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Who growls along the narrow lane - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan II" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

The splendour of our traffic with the sky - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan IV" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

You pay your court to Saturn - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan IV" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Find all armour incomplete - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan VI" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Open to the whips of circumstance - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan VI" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

The last, sacred whisper of the rose - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan VII" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

And underneath her glories build a tomb - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan VIII" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Think with unloosened hurricanes to fight - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan IX" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

And in the dark is rich with alien gold - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan X" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

May parley with oblivion awhile - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XII" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

The centuries are morsels of the night - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XIV" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Watched the loitering stars at play - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XVIII" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Who bore the burden of the same unrest - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XVIII" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

All things that vanish in their noon - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XX" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

What the lotus murmurs to the moon - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XX" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Are as the silent shadows at our feet - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XXI" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

A dwelling less obedient to decay - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XXIII" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Build with the twilight for an architect - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XXIII" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Twined about all transitory things - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XXIV" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Crouching when the voice of thunder rolls - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XXXII" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Are banqueted upon a thunderstorm - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XXXII" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Of a bird imprisoned in the wind - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XXXIII" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Before the sickle sings the songs of peace - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XXXIV" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

But always with another fairy-tale - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XXXVI" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

A dawn without a burden for his wounded back - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XLI" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Soar against the cruel secrets of the door - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XLV" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

I shook the trees of knowledge - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XLIX" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Filled a hundred vessels with my spoil - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XLIX" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Broken by the chariot-wheels of Doom - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan LIII" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Across the silent places of your heart - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan LIV" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Went and will not travel back again - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan LV" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

To sweep aside the solid rocks of pain - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan LXXI" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Disappear below the flood of custom - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan LXXVIII" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Who wanders through the dark to find - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan LXXXI" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Nor is there any prophet save the mind - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan LXXXI" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Will deliver countries to the care of courtesans - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XC" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

The fox who wears the robe of men that rule - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XCI" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

And water fills the hollow of our hand - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XCII" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

We are the crooked alphabet of God - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan CI" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

They flung a chain around the silences - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan CVIII" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

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