El Harith Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAAACADEFEGEEG FHIJGKLLGFAM LGGNFGGGFLFG JJFGGJMMEGFJ MEGLFGCGGFFJEO LGEGNGFLNJGH JEJFGAJGHGPLQLJGGLGJ GFGGLFGFFFNGNJLJGRGE GFJFMHHHLFHE HGFHHHLFFFFMGALGGAFF SMGH| Lightly took she her leave of me Asm u | A |
| went no whit as a guest who outstays a welcome | B |
| Went forgetting our trysts Burk t Shemm u | A |
| all the joys of our love our love's home Khals u | A |
| Muhayy tu she thee forgets Sif hu | A |
| thee Fit kon A dibon thee Waf u | A |
| Thee Ri d el Kat thee vale of Sh rbub | C |
| 'Anak thee Shobat na and thee Abl u | A |
| Nay ye lost are to me with my lost glory | D |
| nay though tears be my meat weeping wins no woman | E |
| Yet a snare to my eyes afar was kindled | F |
| fire by night on the hill It was Hind's love beacon | E |
| Blindly now do I watch her from Khez za | G |
| woe the warmth of it woe though the hilltops redden | E |
| Woe its blaze from Ak k its flame from Sh khseyn | E |
| woe the signal alight for me Hind's love incense | G |
| - | |
| Out on tears and despair I go free sundered | F |
| here stand doors of relief Who hath fled escapeth | H |
| Mount I light on my n ga No hen ostrich | I |
| swift as she the tall trotter her brood behind her | J |
| Hearing voices who fled from them the hunters | G |
| pressing fast on her way from mid eve to nightfall | K |
| Nay behold her my noble one upheaving | L |
| motes and dust on her path as a cloud pursuing | L |
| All un shooed are the feet of her her sandals | G |
| strewn how wide on her road by the rough rocks loosened | F |
| Joy thus take I on her the summer heat through | A |
| All but I had despaired like a blinded camel | M |
| - | |
| O the curse of men's eyes of their ill speaking | L |
| Danger deep and a wound did their false lips deal us | G |
| Have not these with their tongues made small things great things | G |
| telling lies of our lives our kind kin the Ar kim | N |
| Mixing blame with un blame for us till flouted | F |
| stand we proven of wrong with the guilty guiltless | G |
| All say these that have run with us the wild ass | G |
| ours are they our allies as our own tribe their tribes | G |
| Thus by night did they argue it and plot it | F |
| rose at dawn to their treason and stood forth shouting | L |
| Loud the noise of their wrath This called that answered | F |
| great the neighings of steeds and the camel roarings | G |
| - | |
| Ho thou weaver of wild words thou tale painter | J |
| must it thus be for ever and thus with Amru | J |
| Not that slanders are strange Their words we heed not | F |
| long ere this have we known them their lips the liars | G |
| High above them we live Hate may not harm us | G |
| fenced in towers of renown our unstained bright honour | J |
| Long hath anger assailed us rage denial | M |
| long hath evil prevailed in the eyes of evil | M |
| Nathless let them assault As well may Fortune | E |
| hurl its spears at the rocks at the cloud robed mountains | G |
| Frowneth wide of it Fear Fate shall not shake it | F |
| Time's worst hand of distress shall disturb it never | J |
| - | |
| O thou king Iram yan With thee circle | M |
| riders keen of their steel to cut off thy foemen | E |
| King art thou the all just of Earth's high walkers | G |
| foremost first in the World its all praise surpassing | L |
| If of wrong there be aught untamed unstraightened | F |
| bring but word to our chiefs they shall deal out justice | G |
| Set thy gaze on the hills on M lha S kib | C |
| See the slain unavenged while alive their slayers | G |
| Probe the wounds of our anger though thou hurt us | G |
| yet shall truth be approved and the falsehood flouted | F |
| Else be thou of us silent and we silent | F |
| closing lids on our wrong though the mote lies under | J |
| Yet refusing the peace whomso you question | E |
| he shall speak in our praise shall assign us worship | O |
| - | |
| O the days of the war of our free fighting | L |
| raidings made in surprise the retreats the shoutings | G |
| How our n gas we scourged from S f el Bahreyn | E |
| pressing hard to the end to our goal El H sa | G |
| Turned had we on Tem m before Moh rrem | N |
| taken their daughters for wives their maids for handmaids | G |
| None might stay us nor strive with us The stoutest | F |
| turned though turning availed not nor their feet flying | L |
| Nay nor mountain might hide nor plain protect them | N |
| blackness burnt in the sun it might bring no succour | J |
| Thou O King art the master Where in all lands | G |
| standeth one of thy height There is none beside thee | H |
| - | |
| Lo how stiff was our stand for him El M ndir | J |
| Say were we as were these Ibn Hind's base herdsmen | E |
| Let the T ghlebi slain in their blood answer | J |
| unavenged where they lie In the dust we spilled it | F |
| He the king when in that high place Mais na's | G |
| tent he builded for her who so loved Aus u | A |
| What of turbulent folk did he there gather | J |
| broken men of the tribes ragged hungry vultures | G |
| Dates and water to all he gave in bounty | H |
| God's revenge on the guilty they called his soldiers | G |
| You the weight of them proved with your mad challenge | P |
| brought them blind on your back by your idle boasting | L |
| Nay they gave you no false words laid no ambush | Q |
| broad before you at noon you beheld them marching | L |
| Ho thou bearer of tales to Amru babbler | J |
| when of this shall the end be how soon the silence | G |
| Proofs he hath at our hands three honest tokens | G |
| each enough for his eyes of our fa th unswerving | L |
| First when came from Shak k at him the war lords | G |
| all Ma d in their tribes with each clan a banner | J |
| Mail clad men were there there their chieftain K is | G |
| he the Prince Karath yan a rock a stronghold | F |
| With him sons of the brave of freeborn ladies | G |
| naught might stand to their shock save alone our swordblades | G |
| Them we drove back with wounds like the out rushing | L |
| streams when goat skins are pricked it was thus their blood flowed | F |
| Drove them back to Thahl na its strong places | G |
| scattered drenched in their gore where the thigh wounds spouted | F |
| Struck we stern at the lives of them then trembled | F |
| deep our spears in their well like a long roped bucket | F |
| Only God shall appraise how we misused them | N |
| none hath claimed for their lives the uncounted blood price | G |
| Next with H jra it was Ibn om Kat ma | N |
| with him rode the Ir ni how red their armour | J |
| Roused a lion he chargeth his feet thudding | L |
| yet as Spring to the poor in their day of hunger | J |
| Chains we struck from the hands of Imr el K is | G |
| long the days of his grief were his months of bondage | R |
| We when Jaun of A l Beni 'Aus sought us | G |
| rock strong with him a band of unyielding horsemen | E |
| Nothing feared though the dust of them around us | G |
| swept the plain like a smoke by the war flame kindled | F |
| Put we swords on his neck Ghass n for M ndir | J |
| wrath that less than our right was the blood price counted | F |
| Lastly brought we the nine of the blood royal | M |
| all their wealth in our hands an unnumbered booty | H |
| Amr a son was of ours Ibn Om Eyy si | H |
| close in kinship he came when he gave the dowry | H |
| Let this stand to our count our power in pleading | L |
| land with land are we knit by the strong ones strengthened | F |
| Hold the tongue of your boasting your vainglory | H |
| else be yourselves the blind on yourselves ill fortune | E |
| - | |
| O remember the oath of Thil Maj zi | H |
| all that was of old time the fair words the pledges | G |
| Flee the evil the hate Shall men gainsay it | F |
| that which stands on the skin for the whim of any | H |
| Think how we with yourselves the fair deed signed there | H |
| did the thing we should do and no less our duty | H |
| Faction all and injustice As well when feasting | L |
| take for vow of a sheep a gazelle in payment | F |
| Was it ours say the blame of it all when K ndah | F |
| took your booths for a spoil that of us you claim it | F |
| Was it ours that foul deed of him Ey di | F |
| are we bound with his rope like a loaded camel | M |
| Not by us were these done to their death nor K is | G |
| nay nor J ndal by us nor he Hadd u | A |
| Theirs not ours were the crimes of Beni At keh | L |
| clean of blame are our hands since you tore the treaties | G |
| Eighty went of Tem m in their right hands lances | G |
| each a sentence of death when they went against you | A |
| Left your sons where they lay sword slashed and blood stained | F |
| brought a tumult of spoil till men's ears were deafened | F |
| Is it ours the ill deed of the man Han fa | S |
| ours the strife of all time Earth's arrears of evil | M |
| Ours the wrong of Kod at Nay 'tis all injustice | G |
| not for the | H |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about El Harith poem by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Best Poems of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt