{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arp/arp074.htm","path":"isl/arp/arp074.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arp/arp074.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. 147\n THE INCONSISTENT.\n TO A LADY, UPON HER REFUSAL OF A PRESENT OF\n MELONS, AND HER REJECTION OF THE\n ADDRESSES OF AN ADMIRER.\n \n WHEN I sent you my melons, you cried out with scorn,\n \u00a0\u00a0\"They ought to be heavy, and wrinkled, and yellow:\"\n When I offered myself, whom those graces adorn,\n \u00a0\u00a0You flouted, and called me an ugly old fellow!\n \n \n \n Next: On the Capture of Jerusalem, in the First Crusade, by Almodhafer Alabiwerdy","title":"Arabian Poetry: Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: The Inconsistent","type":"page"}