Thursday 7 November 2013

The arabian nights

I am now a days reading 'The Arabian Nights by Hussain Haddawy'  and would like to share some lines.
The porter, looking to see who opend the door, saw a full-bosomed girl, about five feet tall. She was all charm, beauty, and perfect grace, with forehead like the New moon, eyes like those of a deer or a wild heifer,eyebrows like the crescent in the month of Sha'ban ( The eighth month of the lunar muslim year), cheeks like red anemones, mouth like the seal of Solomon, lips like red carnelian, theeth like a row of pearls set in coral, neck like cake for a King, bosom like a fountain, breasts like a pair of big pomegranates resembling a rabbit with uplifted ears, and belly with a navel like a cup that holds a pound of benzoin ointment. She was like the poet aptly Said:
One stately sun and full moon cast on your sight; Savor the flowers and lavender's delight. Your eyes have never seen such white in black, such radiant face with hair so deeply dark. With rosy cheeks, beauty proclaimed her name, to those who had not yet recieved her fame. Her swaying heavy hips I joyed to see, but her sweet, slender waist brought tears to me.
When i have read this text I felt in love.
Its beautiful the way they discribe a woman, would like to be discribed the same way ;p.

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