Texts of Islam

Arabian Poetry: The Moallakát: The Poem of Lebeid: The Argument

Summary only - full text stays on its own separately-gated source. Read the full text at the source »

ALTHOUGH the opening of this Poem be that of a love-elegy, and the greater part of it be purely pastoral, yet it seems to have been composed on an occasion more exalted than the departure of a mistress, or the complaints of a lover. For the poet, who was also a genuine patriot, had been entertained at the court of Nomaan, King of Hira in Mesopotamia, and had been there engaged in a warm controversy with Rabeiah, son of Zeiad, chief of the Absites, concerning the comparative excellence of their…

Arabian Poetry: The Moallakát: The Poem of Lebeid: The Argument

Related pages View as graph →