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Agitated with delight like a waving sea. | 1 |
Bald, as twere a scalp, reft of its hairs. | 2 |
His face beamed like a pearl with light. | 3 |
Beautiful as the bough of the myrobalan. | 4 |
Bind like an adamant-chain. | 5 |
Bright as fullest moon in blackest air. | 6 |
Bright as though a moon of the fourteenth night. | 7 |
Cheek as the blood of the dragon bright. | 8 |
The down on his cheeks dispread like myrtles springing from the heart of a bright red rose. | 9 |
Cheeks like blood-red anemones. | 10 |
Clean as virgin silver. | 11 |
Clear as pearls and diaphanous gems. | 12 |
The difference of savour twixt vinegar and wine. | 13 |
Thy face, like dawn when it lights the dawn. | 14 |
Faded like the morn. | 15 |
Fly as a bird on the wings of Night. | 16 |
Glad as a fly. | 17 |
The glance of the eyes like the fawns soft gaze. | 18 |
Javelins glanced like leven-light on white mail-shirt. | 19 |
Gleaming like the chamomile. | 20 |
Gold in the house is like sun in the world. | 21 |
Joyful as a fly. | 22 |
Keen, like the horn of the cuspèd moon. | 23 |
Lips like coralline. | 24 |
Dainty lips like double carnelian. | 25 |
Moaned like a drinker in grievous plight. | 26 |
A mouth as it were Solomons seal. | 27 |
Womens good name, O my lady, is like curded milk, the least dust fouleth it; and like glass, which, if it be cracked, may not be mended. | 28 |
Her neck is like the neck of doe. | 29 |
A neck like an ingot of silver. | 30 |
Flabby nose like a brinjall, or eggplant. | 31 |
Radiant
like a young moon. | 32 |
Runs
as the surge of health returning to the sick. | 33 |
Shimmered like silver. | 34 |
Soft as silk in her touch. | 35 |
Soft as threaded pearls. | 36 |
Softer than zephyrs wing. | 37 |
Straight as a cane. | 38 |
Like a branch she sways with supple ply. | 39 |
Sweet as maidens deckt and dight. | 40 |
Teeth like string pearls in carceneto of gold. | 41 |
Teeth like the tusks of jinni who frightened poultry in henhouses. | 42 |
Thin as a pair of shears. | 43 |
A voice like the whistle of birds. | 44 |
White as camphor. | 45 |
Brow white as day. | 46 |
White as morning. | 47 |
White as the full moon when it mooneth on its fourteenth night. | 48 |
White like egg of the pigeon hen. | 49 |
Wild as wild Arabs. | 50 |
Worn down
like a shape in a shroud. | 51 |
Yellow as a hopeless lover. | 52 |
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