Al-Khansa الخنساء
poet · Arabia · 575?–645?
A woman poet of Arabia. She lost two brothers in tribal fighting and wrote elegies for the rest of her life.
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early 7th century · Mourning her brother Sakhr, killed in tribal fighting
The rising of the sun reminds me of Sakhr, and I remember him at every setting of the sun.
يذكرني طلوع الشمس صخرا
وأذكره لكل غروب شمسDivan of al-Khansa
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