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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 WRITTEN AFTER SWIMMING FROM SESTOS TO ABYDOS by GEORGE GORDON BYRON WORD-PORTRAITS: THE DESCRIPTION OF SIR GEOFFREY CHAUCER by ROBERT GREENE A CONSECRATION by JOHN MASEFIELD SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 91 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 10. TO THE MUSE by MARK AKENSIDE THE BROKEN WATER WHEEL by GHALIB IBN RIBAH AL-HAJJAM CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: TO THE READER by WILLIAM BASSE |
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