Poem

Alas, Bitter Day

By God, what a day when bitter failure came!By God, what a day I besieged a heart that would not yield!
By God, in solitude and loneliness after the clamour of assemblies!By God, in failure after victory's successive chain!
By God, the day I was born, the day I die, the day I rise alive!I am sorrowful—O Azhar, what sorrow is mine!
Story

Spirits in Harmony

Publisher Daar Nashr al Sakafa
Page count 91
Publication date 1946

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