It's not really a "poem" as it is just a passage from a book; but it's pretty poetic and I love it. Has nothing to do with anything on this website whatsoever idk I just find myself reading this a lot. I've memorized most of it but I skip over bits and pieces sometime. I found out about both the book and this passage through an episode of Criminal Minds (I find a lot of stuff through that show), and I think it's pretty cool.
It's not really a "poem" as it is just a passage from a book; but it's pretty poetic and I love it. Has nothing to do with anything on this website whatsoever idk I just find myself reading this a lot. I've memorized most of it but I skip over bits and pieces sometime. I found out about both the book and this passage through an episode of Criminal Minds (I find a lot of stuff through that show), and I think it's pretty cool.
" She comes like fullest moon on happy night,
Taper of waist with shape of magic might.
She hath an eye whose glances quell mankind,
And ruby on her cheeks reflects his light.
Enveils her hips the blackness of her hair-
Beware of curls that bite with viper bite!
Her sides are silken-soft, that while the heart
Mere rock behind that surface 'scapes our sight.
From the fringed curtains of her eye she shoots
Shafts that at furthest range on mark alight. "
- From a translation of Arabian Nights