Tuesday, January 29, 2008

pre-islamic poetry

excerpt from my reading:
Or her mouth is as an ungrazed meadow,
whose herbage the rain has guaranteed,
in which there is but little dung;
and which is not marked with the feet of animals.
-from the poem of antar

2 comments:

Maria Paz said...

ew

Anonymous said...

artemis this is one of my favorite persian poets. the book of birds. be more reverent and less competitive
~A