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Abu al-Ala al-Maarri

The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala

  • Masha Paltsevahas quoted3 years ago
    We that with song our pilgrimage beguile,
    With purple islands which a sunset bore,
    We, sunk upon the sacrilegious shore,
    May parley with oblivion awhile.
  • Masha Paltsevahas quoted3 years ago
    I think our world is not a place of rest,
    But where a man may take his little ease,
    Until the landlord whom he never sees
    Gives that apartment to another guest.
  • Masha Paltsevahas quoted3 years ago
    Live well! Be wary of this life, I say;
    Do not o'erload yourself with righteousness.
    Behold! the sword we polish in excess,
    We gradually polish it away.
  • Masha Paltsevahas quoted3 years ago
    Life is a flame that flickers in the wind,
    A bird that crouches in the fowler's net—
    Nor may between her flutterings forget
    That hour the dreams of youth were unconfined.
  • Masha Paltsevahas quoted3 years ago
    For as a gate of sorrow-land unbars
    The region of unfaltering delight,
    So may you gather from the fields of night
    That harvest of diviner thought, the stars.
  • Masha Paltsevahas quoted3 years ago
    Now this religion happens to prevail
    Until by that religion overthrown,—
    Because men dare not live with men alone,
    But always with another fairy-tale.
  • Masha Paltsevahas quoted3 years ago
    Aye, when the torch is low and we prepare
    Beyond the notes of revelry to pass—
    Old Silence will keep watch upon the grass,
    The solemn shadows will assemble there.
  • Masha Paltsevahas quoted3 years ago
    The days are dressing all of us in white,
    For him who will suspend us in a row.
    But for the sun there is no death. I know
    The centuries are morsels of the night.
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