Friday, December 09, 2011

She is wine in beauty, like her spit is wine;
her delicacy, too, is tinged by wine: 

three wines are joined in her, but from one
a drunkard exceeds drunkenness.

Qays ibn al-Mulawwah


هي الخمر في حسن و كالخمر ريقها
و رقة ذاك اللون في رقة الخمر

و قد جمعت منها خمور ثلالثة
و في واحد سكر يزيد السكر

قيس بن الملوح