{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arp/arp024.htm","path":"isl/arp/arp024.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arp/arp024.htm","text":"Arabian Poetry, by W. A. Clouston, [1881]\nAs the following translations were attempted at different times and with different impressions, their execution is, no doubt, very unequal: in general they will, I trust, be found as literal as the nature of two languages, so little resembling each other in their structure, will admit; in some few instances I have indulged myself in a greater latitude, and have given rather an imitation than a version;\u2014in such a manner, however, I hope, as not in any place to have lost sight of the original idea of the writer.\u2014From the Translator's Preface.\n*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0*\n *\nMost of the Translator's interesting Biographical Notices of the Authors and the subjects of these little pieces are, with some additional Notes, placed in the Appendix to this volume.\u2014Ed.","title":"Arabian Poetry: Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: Title Page and Front Matter","type":"page"}