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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VULTURES, by GHALIB IBN RIBAH AL-HAJJAM First Line: The dead lie strewn about Last Line: With henna their white hair. | |||
The dead lie strewn about Like stones; the vultures dart To pluck their vitals out And rend their ribs apart. All crimson with the meal, They look as though they were Old women, who aneal With henna their white hair. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BROKEN WATER WHEEL by GHALIB IBN RIBAH AL-HAJJAM THE CANDLE by GHALIB IBN RIBAH AL-HAJJAM THE PEN by GHALIB IBN RIBAH AL-HAJJAM THE STORK by GHALIB IBN RIBAH AL-HAJJAM THE TOOTHPICK by GHALIB IBN RIBAH AL-HAJJAM COUNTRYWOMEN by KATHERINE MANSFIELD THE WORLD-SOUL by RALPH WALDO EMERSON EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE COWARD by RUDYARD KIPLING JEANIE MORRISON by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL ODES IV, 7. TO TORQUATUS. DIFFUGERE NIVES by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 13. TO AUTHOR OF MEMOIRS OF HOUSE OF BRANDENBURGH by MARK AKENSIDE |
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