{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arp/arp027.htm","path":"isl/arp/arp027.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arp/arp027.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Islam\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \nBuy this Book at Amazon.com\n \n \nArabian Poetry, by W. A. Clouston, [1881]\n \n p. 98\n ON THE\n DEATH OF HIS MISTRESS.\n BY ABU SAHER ALHEDILY.\n \n DOST thou wonder that I flew\n Charmed to meet my Leila's view?\n Dost thou wonder that I hung\n Raptured on my Leila's tongue?\u2014\n If her ghost's funereal screech\n Through the earth my grave should reach,\n On that voice I loved so well\n My transported ghost would dwell:\n If in death I can descry\n Where my Leila's relics lie,\n Saher's dust will flit away,\n There to join his Leila's clay.\n \n \n \n Next: On Avarice, by Hatem Tai","title":"Arabian Poetry: Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: On The Death Of His Mistress, By Abu Saher Alhedily","type":"page"}