War Songs. 'Antarah ibn Shaddad

War Songs

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1: Did poetry die?

2: Damn the ruins!

3: The Battle of ʿUrāʿir

4: Your sorry ass

5: Raqāshi is gone

6: I know Death

7: Blade-thin, war-spent

8: The crow croaked

9: Traced like tattoos

10: The eyes of an ʿUsfān gazelle

11: Shut up about my horse

12: A cavalry charge

13: Between Qaww and Qārah

14: The hostage you offered up

15: I planted my cold arrow

16: Primed for battle

17: Your last gasp is near!

18: Jostled by horses

19: I didn’t start this war

20: That dung beetle, Jaʿd

21: Who’ll side with you?

22: Grasping at spears

23: A panicked leader

24: The antelopes sprinted right and left

25: An enemy squadron attacked

26: Jirwah is mine

27: War ripped out Ghaṭafān’s spine

TWO QASIDAS FROM IBN MAYMŪN’S ANTHOLOGY

28: The East Wind blew

29: Between shock and grief

POEMS FROM AL-BAṬALYAWSĪ’S RECENSION

30: Why are you fat as camels’ humps?

31: Spears adrip with gore

32: The crow croaked

33: Pay for my blood

34: My horse Blaze

35: My steeds live for War

36: Death and Revenge

37: Escape if you can

38: At the Pass of Woe

39: Man up, Ḥuṣayn!

40: Death always finds a way

41: In the forest of spears

42: The Fates claim their due

43: The Half-Blood

POEMS FROM THE EPIC OF ʿANTAR

44: Did ʿAblah’s brightness ignite your heart?

45: The murky binge of battle

46: The fire for you burns in my belly

47: A sin ʿAblah can’t forgive

48: I was betrayed

49: ʿAblah’s wraith

50: The birds are jittery

51: That coward, Death

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