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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ORANGES, by BEN SARA OF SANTAREN
First Line: Yonder stands the orange-tree
Last Line: And the sweets of their perfume.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Sara; Ibn Sarah
Subject(s): Oranges
First Line: Yonder stands the orange-tree
Last Line: And the sweets of their perfume.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Sara; Ibn Sarah
Subject(s): Oranges
Yonder stands the orange-tree
Showing off its fruits to me,
Gleaming teardrops lovers shed
Stained by passion's heartbreak red.
Balls of agate carmine-bright
Hung on boughs of chrysolite,
Sent a-spinning from the trees
By the mallet of the breeze.
Now I kiss them, now inhale;
Thus my senses I regale
With their cheeks' so tender bloom
And the sweets of their perfume.
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