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
About El Harith
El Harith is a poem by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.
Write your comment about El Harith poem by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Best Poems of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt