Contents
Preface
First Prelude
Second Prelude
Third Prelude
Some Time before Some Death
The Visit
Earth-Rejoicing Lad
I.
Mawwal from the Gardens of a Woman
Mawwal of the Distant Gaze
The Bard's Mawwal
II.
III.
The Predicate in Advance
Ambiguous Terms
Subject Deferred
1.
2.
3.
Air Joy
Glossary
Explanatory Notes
On the Poet and the Translators
Arabic Text: Ruba'iyat al-farah