Specimens of Arabian Poetry - From the Earliest Time to the Extinction of the Khaliphat, With Some Account of the Authors #260718

The following compositions are principally collected from the Arabian historians, by whom they have been preserved, either to elucidate some event which the author is describing, or to exemplify the genius of a poet whose life he relates. They are taken indifferently from works published, or from MSS, as the one or the other happened to fall under my perusal; and were translated at various times; either to fill up an idle moment or to dissipate the tedium of philological labour. Thus they insensibly swelled into the size of a volume.