Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WING OF SEPARATION, by IBN DARRAJ AL-ANDALUSI First Line: The wing of separation / bore me away Last Line: (j. B. Trend) Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Darraj Al-qastalli Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation | ||||||||
THE wing of separation Bore me away; The fluttering heart was dismayed And bore away her senses ... Had she but seen me, When my soul was intent on speeding the journey by night, When my sounding steps Held converse with the demons of the desert When I wandered through the waste In the shadows of night, While the roar of the lion was heard From his lair among the reeds When the brilliant Pleiades circled, Like dark-eyed maidens in the green woods; And the stars were borne round Like wine-cups, Filled by a fair maid And served by a watchful attendant When the Milky Way Was as the gray hairs of age Upon the head of gloomy night; And the ardor of my resolution, And the piercer of darkness Were equally terrible; When the eyelids of the stars Were closed for weariness Ah, then she had known That fate itself obeyed my will And that I was worthy of the favor of Ibn Aâmir. (J. B. Trend) | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EVENING OF THE MIND by DONALD JUSTICE CHRISTMAS AWAY FROM HOME by JANE KENYON THE PROBLEM by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN by DAVID LEHMAN THIS UNMENTIONABLE FEELING by DAVID LEHMAN LILIES by IBN DARRAJ AL-ANDALUSI |
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