Poetry Codex

Arabic & Persian

'Abd al-Masih ibn 'Asalah

6th century

'Abd al-Masih ibn 'Asalah, whose name shows him to have been a Christian, belonged to the Shaiban branch of Bakr ibn Wa'il, in Mesopotamia. Lyall has no information about his date or history.

Ode LXXII describes a drinking-scene.

Poems (3)

  1. Ode LXXII: O Ka'b ! would that thou
  2. Ode LXXIII: Often into a far distant meadow
  3. Ode LXXXIII: Mayst thou be safe from the

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