1. Nature in the Al-Muallaqat
His description begins: "His flanks are the flanks of a fawn, his legs like an ostriches look from behind, and he bares his legs' gap with a full tail, not askew, reaching almost to the ground; his back, as he stands beside the tent, seems the pounding-slab of a bride's perfumes, or the smooth stone a colocynth's broken on. (65.12-17)" The description of his horse is reminiscent of Fatimah one of his former lovers, whom he describes a few lines before. ... He describes his horse as smelling like a bride and related his skin to a smooth stone used to break a colocynth,...
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