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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HOUSE, by ABU AMIR IBN AL-HAMMARAH First Line: You, unique in human kind Last Line: Than your home beyond the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Al-hammara; Abu 'amir Ibn Al-hammarah | |||
You, unique in human kind, Have a house unique designed: Lodge therein with equal ease As the sun in Aries. Hope could never bid more fair Than your mortal home to share, Works no ampler guerdon crave Than your home beyond the grave. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE by ABU AMIR IBN AL-HAMMARAH AN ISLAND (SAINT HELENA, 1821) by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON MARIANNE MOORE by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS THE CLOUDS: THE CLOUD CHORUS by ARISTOPHANES OF THE THEME OF LOVE by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR FIRST FIG by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY CLEOPATRA by WILLIAM WETMORE STORY MY PRAYER by HENRY DAVID THOREAU THE HERO OF VIMY; AN INCIDENT OF THE GREAT WAR by BRENT DOW ALLINSON |
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