Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LILIES AND ROSES, by IBN AL-QUTIYA


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LILIES AND ROSES, by                    
First Line: Drink you with the lily white
Last Line: Fanned to flame by breezes blowing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Al-qutiyyah, Aby Bakr Muhammad
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Roses


Drink you with the lily white
Tender in the dawning light,
Revel with the crimson rose
In the sunrise as it glows.

Each methinks has pressed its lips
Unto heaven's breasts, and sips
This the pale west's milky flood,
That the eastern pool of blood.

Comrades in rebellion
Challenging the camphor, one,
T' other bold to disobey
Justly the cornelian's sway.

One a statue, nakedly
Offered for all eyes to see,
One the cheek of lover, torn
Ruefully on parting's morn.

Or, if this my image ill is,
Pipes of silver are the lilies,
And the roses embers glowing
Fanned to flame by breezes blowing.





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