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Arabian Poetry: Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: The Song of Maisuna

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[MAISUNA was a daughter of the tribe of Calab; a tribe, according to Abulfeda, remarkable both for the purity of dialect spoken in it and for the number of poets it had produced. She was married, whilst very young, to the Khalif Mowiah; but this exalted situation by no means suited the disposition of Maisuna; and, amidst all the pomp and splendour of Damascus, she languished for the simple pleasures of her native desert. These feelings gave birth to the following simple stanzas, which she took…

Arabian Poetry: Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: The Song of Maisuna

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