—— (Al-) fí ’l-Akmám (Pr. N.) = Rose in Hood, v. 32.
—— Shah = Rose King, vii. 70.
Wardán (a Fellah name, also of a village), iv. 293.
Wárid = resorting to the water, iii. 56.
Waríd (jugular vein), iv. 92.
Warm one’s self at a man’s fire, ii. 76.
Wars (caused by trifles, frequent in Arab history), vi. 142.
—— (Al-) = carthamus tinctorius, vii. 92.
Wartah = precipice, quagmire, etc., x. 81.
Washing the dead _without doors_ only in case of poverty, ii. 10.
Washings after evacuation, i. 220.
Wasíf = servant; fem. Wasífah = concubine, iii. 171.
Wásik (Al-) Caliph, iii. 81.
Wásit = Middle (town of Irák Arabi), ix. 26.
Wasm = tribal sign, vi. 163.
Watad = tent-peg (also a prosodical term), viii. 279.
Water (sight of running, makes a Persian long for strong drink), iv.
75.
—— (had no taste in his mouth), v. 39.
—— (-carrier = Sakká), v. 89.
Watering the streets, iv. 107.
Water-melons (eaten with rice and meat), vi. 208.
Waters flowing in Heaven, iii. 65.
Watwát = bat, v. 226.
Way of Allah = common property, i. 91.
Waybah = six to seven English gallons, iv. 86.
Wayha = Alas! v. 258.
Wayha-k, equivalent to Wayla-k, vii. 127.
Wayla-k = Woe to thee! iii. 82.
Wazír = Minister, i. 2.
—— (the sharp-witted in the tales), ii. 246.
Weal (I see naught but), ix. 180.
Weapons (carried under the thigh), vii. 56.
—— magic, vii. 59.
—— new forms of, vii. 62.
Web and pin (eye-disease of horses), viii. 341.
Week-days (only two names for), iii. 249.
—— (old names for), vi. 190.
Weeping (not for form and face alone), iii. 318.
—— (over dead friends), ix. 187.
Whale (still common off the East African coast), vi. 11.
What calamity is upon thee = what a bother thou art, viii. 177.
What happened, happened = fortune so willed it, iii. 68.
“What is it compared with,” popular way of expressing great difference,
i. 37.
What manner of thing is Al-Rashíd? = What has he to do here? viii. 176.
“Whatso thou wouldest do, that do,” = Do what thou wilt, vii. 324.
Where is—and where? = What a difference is there between, etc., v. 65.
“Where lies China-land?” = it is a far cry to Loch Awe, vii. 344.
Whistling (Sifr), iv. 206.
—— (held to be the devil’s speech), v. 333.
—— (to call animals to water), viii. 278.
White as milk (opposed to black as mud, etc.), iv. 140.
—— (hand, symbol of generosity, etc.), iv. 185.
—— (turband, distinctive of Moslems), iv. 214.
—— hand of Moses (sign to Pharao), iv. 249.
—— and black faces on the Day of Judgment, iv. 249.
—— (colour of the Ommiades), vi. 86.
—— robes (denote grace and mercy), vi. 250.
—— (mourning colour under the Abbasides), viii. 200.
Whiteness (for lustre, honour), viii. 295.
Whitening and blackening of the faces on Judgment-Day, ii. 312.
“Who art thou?” etc. (meaning “you are nobodies”), vii. 286.
“Whoso beguileth folk, him shall Allah beguile,” viii. 143.
“Whoso loveth me, let him bestow largesse upon this man,” vii. 323.
“Whoso praiseth and then blameth lieth twice,” x. 15.
“Why don’t (_can’t_) you buy me?” viii. 300.
Wicket (small doorway at the side of a gate), ix. 320.
Wife (euphemistically spoken of in the masculine), i. 67.
—— (Aurat), vi. 30.
—— (called “Family”), vi. 75.
—— (contrast between vicious servile and virtuous of noble birth), ix.
302.
Will he not care? = he shall answer for this! vi. 245.
Window-gardening, old practice in the East, i. 301.
Windows (looking out of, a favourite occupation in the East and South),
vi. 167.
Wine (why strained), i. 27.
—— (boiled) = vinum coctum, i. 132.
—— (flying to the head, effect of the cold after a heated room), i.
224.
—— (kahwah), ii. 261.
—— (table and service), ii. 122.
—— (a sun, with cupbearer for East and the drinker’s mouth for West),
iii. 263.
—— (its prohibition not held absolute), v. 224.
—— (breeds gladness, etc.), viii. 202.
—— (in cup, or cup in wine?), viii. 276.
—— (Mohammed makes up his mind about it by slow degrees), viii. 277.
Wird = the last twenty-five chapters of the Koran, v. 185.
—— (Pers.) = pupil, disciple, ix. 61.
Wisádah = pillow, ii. 70.
Wisháh = belt, scarf, viii. 209.
Wishes (tale of the three), vi. 180.
Wiswás = diabolical temptation or suggestion, i. 106.
Witches (and their vehicles), vi. 158.
Witness (bear, against me, _i.e._ in case of my denial), vi. 286; viii.
22.
Witnesses (one man = two women), v. 155.
Wittol (pictured with driest Arab humour), ix. 269.
Wives have their night in turns, ii. 78.
—— (why four, _see_ Women), iii. 212.
—— (a man’s tillage), iii. 304.
—— (and their suitors), vi. 172.
Wolf (wicked man); fox (cunning one), iii. 132.
Woman, Women (debauched prefer Blackamoors), i. 6.
—— (their depravity goes hand in hand with perversity of taste), i. 73.
—— (old must not be called Ajúz but Shaybah), i. 174.
—— (bastinadoed), i. 183.
—— (chaff and banter allowed to), i. 267.
—— (of Damascus famed for sanguinary jealousy), i. 295.
—— (Cairene held exceedingly debauched), i. 298.
—— mourning, i. 311.
—— (high-born and their frolics), i. 328.
—— (cries of), ii. 6.
—— weeping and wailing before cenotaphs, ii. 68.
—— maltreated under the Caliphate, ii. 69.
—— Women captives, ii. 94.
—— of the blue-stocking type, ii. 156.
—— created of a crooked rib, ii. 161.
—— (consult them and do the contrary), ii. 184.
—— (peculiar waddle of), iii. 37.
—— (proposing extreme measures), iii. 39.
—— (are tinder, men fire), iii. 59.
—— (monkish horror of), iii. 126.
—— (Laylah, name of), iii. 135.
—— (true seducers), iii. 166.
—— (Wálidatí = my mother), iii. 208.
—— (four wives, and why), iii. 212.
—— (compared to an inn), iii. 216.
—— (large hips and thighs), iii. 226.
—— (small fine foot), iii. 227.
—— (names of), iii. 239; 263.
—— (more passionate than men), iii. 241.
—— (head must always be kept covered), iii. 275.
—— (slender-waisted but full of hips, etc.), iii. 278.
—— (Sodomy with), iii. 304.
—— (all charges laid upon them), iii. 335.
—— (old bawd), iv. 4.
—— (names of), iv. 12.
—— (less handsome than man), iv. 15.
—— (walk and gait), iv. 16.
—— (bride night), iv. 30.
—— (oath of a), iv. 49.
—— (insolence of princesses), iv. 145.
—— (inner, her meanings), iv. 146.
—— (answering question by counterquestion), iv. 148.
—— (Abyssinian famous as “holders”), iv. 227.
—— (slave-names), iv. 232.
—— (intercourse between), iv. 234.
—— (white-skinned supposed to be heating and unwholesome), iv. 253.
—— (sleep naked in hot weather), v. 8.
—— (making the first advances), v. 34.
—— (and secrets), v. 35, 83.
—— (wives of eunuchs), v. 46.
—— (visiting their lovers in a dream), v. 47.
—— (thought to be Jinn or Ghúl), v. 51.
—— (called Zaurà, the crooked), v. 66.
—— (allowed to absent themselves from the house of father or husband),
v. 96.
—— (instructed in “motitations”), v. 80.
—— (apt for two tricks), v. 161.
—— (old, polite equivalents for), v. 163.
—— (in their prime at fourteen to fifteen), v. 192.
—— (inferior to man), v. 155.
—— (unveiling to a man, if not slaves, insult him), v. 194.
—— (in Hindostaní jargon = Aurat), vi. 30.
—— (her shame extends from head to toes), vi. 118.
—— (their cunning and malice), vi. 144.
—— (corrupts woman more than men do), vi. 152.
—— (knowing enough without learning to read and write), vi. 168.
—— (of Kashmír), vi. 156.
—— (her female visitors unknown to the husband except by hearsay), vi.
199.
—— (words used only by them, not by men), vi. 233.
—— (blue-eyed of good omen), vii. 164.
—— (stealing of their clothes), viii. 30.
—— (her heart the only bond known by her), viii. 54.
—— (reasons for their ageing in the East), viii. 86.
—— (always to be addressed Ummí = my mother), viii. 87.
—— (often hide their names from the husband), viii. 100.
—— (semi-maniacal rancour of a good one against an erring sister),
viii. 118.
—— (when old, the most vindictive of her kind), viii. 137.
—— (who are neither thine nor another’s), viii. 208.
—— (their bodies impregnated with scents), viii. 279.
—— (to be respected by the King), ix. 73.
—— (“great is their malice”), ix. 119.
—— (a case of “hard lines” for them), ix. 134.
—— (their marrying a second time reckoned disgraceful), ix. 246.
—— (the sin lieth with them), ix. 297.
—— (fail in wit and faith), ix. 298.
—— (practically only two ways of treating them), ix. 303.
—— (delicacy of their skin), ix. 321.
—— (treated leniently in a Kázi’s court), x. 4.
Womankind (seven ages of), ix. 175.
—— (their status in Al-Islam), x. 195.
Wonder (= cause) in every death, i. 351.
Word (the creative “Kun”), ix. 78.
Words (divided in a couplet), iii. 166.
Worlds (the three = Triloka), ii. 236.
Wreckers, ii. 111.
Wrestling and Wrestlers, ii. 93.
—— (amongst the Egyptian Fellah), viii. 199.
Writer of The Nights careless, iv. 155.
Writing (styles of), iv. 196.
Writing without fingers = (being unable to answer for what is written),
iii. 181.
Wuldán = Ghilmán, the beautiful youths of Paradise, i. 211.
Wuzu-ablution = lesser ablution, i. 142.
—— (necessary before joining in prayers), ii. 46.
—— (Koranic order for), v. 198.
—— (angels and devils at the side of a man who prepares for it), v.
198.
Xisisthrus = Noah, ii. 20, 25.
Yá A’awaz = O, one eye (obscene meaning of the phrase), viii. 185.
Yá Abati = O dear father mine, ix. 88.
Yá Abú al-Lithámayn = O sire of the chin-veils twain, x. 20.
Yá Abú Libdah = O father of a felt-calotte, iii. 62.
Yá Abú Sumrah = O father of brownness, iii. 40.
Yá Ahmak = O fool, ix. 271.
Yá ’Ajúz = O old woman (now insulting), v. 163.
Yá Bunayya = O dear (lit. little) my son, ix. 79.
Yá Ba’íd = thou distant one, euphemism for gross abuse, i. 41.
Yá Bárid = O fool, i. 313.
Yá Dádatí = O my nurse, “ma mie,” vii. 372.
Yá Fulán = O certain person, iii. 191; ix. 334.
Yá Fulánah = O certain person (fem.), ix. 270.
Yá Hájj = O Pilgrim, ii. 15.
Yá házá = O this one, somewhat slightingly, i. 240.
Yá hú = O he! Swift’s Yahoo? i. 240.
Yá Jáhil = O ignorant, ix. 52.
Yá Kawwád = O pimp, v. 129.
Yá Khálatí = O mother’s sister, in addressing the old, i. 303.
Yá Khawand = O Master, vii. 315.
Yá Khwájah = O Master, viii. 18.
Yá Kisrawi = O subject of the Kisrà, v. 26.
Yá layta = would to heaven, viii. 48.
Yá Ma’ashar al-Muslimín = Ho Moslems! iv. 149.
Yá Mashúm = O unlucky one, i. 221.
Yá Mauláya = O, my lord, ix. 228.
Yá Miskín = O poor devil, vi. 219.
Yá Mumátil = O Slow o’ Pay, viii. 169.
Yá Nasrání = O Nazarene, iv. 199.
Yá Sáki ’al-Dakan = O frosty-beard, v. 99.
Yá Sáki ’al-Wajh = O false face, vii. 353.
Yá Salám = O safety (a vulgar ejaculation), viii. 98.
Yá Sátir = O veiler (of sins), iii. 41.
Yá Sattár = O Thou who veilest the discreditable secrets of Thy
creatures, i. 258.
Yá Shátir = O clever one! (in a bad sense), iv. 209.
Yá Shukayr = O little Tulip, viii. 168.
Yá Taljí = O snowy one, iii. 40.
Yá Tayyib al-Khál = O thou nephew of a good uncle, i. 303.
Yá Ustá (for Ustáz) = O my master, vii. 192.
Yá Wadúd = O loving one, iv. 54.
Yá Sín (heart of the Koran, chapt. xxxvi.), iv. 50.
Ya’arub (eponymus of an Oman tribe), vi. 260; vii. 25.
Yáfis, Yáfat = Japhet, vii. 40.
Yaftah Alláh = Allah will open, an offer being insufficient, ii. 149.
Yahúdí for Jew, less polite than Banú Isráil, i. 210.
Yají miat khwánjah = near a hundred chargers, vii. 345.
Yájúj and Májúj, v. 318.
Yakhní = stew, broth, vii. 186.
Yákút = ruby, garnet, etc., v. 342.
Yaman (Al-) = right-hand region, ii. 179.
—— (lightning on the hills of), ii. 179.
Yásamín = Jessamine (name of a slave-girl), viii. 176.
Yashmak (chin-veil for women), ii. 31.
Yasrib (ancient name of Al-Medínah), iv. 114.
Yastaghíbúní = they take advantage of my absence, ix. 224.
Yauh (conversationally Yehh) expression of astonishment, ii. 321.
Yauh! Yauh! = Alas! vi. 235.
Yathrib (old name of Al-Medinah), ix. 177, _see_ Yasrib.
Yaum al-Íd = the great festival, i. 317.
Yaum al-Tanádí = Resurrection Day, iii. 74.
Yaum-i-Alast = Day of “am-I-not” (your Lord)? ii. 91.
Yaum mubárak = a blessed day, vi. 215.
Yellow girl (for light-coloured wine), x. 39.
Yes, Yes! and No, No! trifles common amongst the Arabs, ii. 60; ix.
250.
Youth described in terms applying to women, i. 144.
Yohanná = John, iv. 87.
Yuhanná (Greek Physician), v. 154.
Yúnán Yúnáníyah = Greece, ii. 82; iv. 100.
Yúsuf bin Omar, ii. 170.
Yúsuf (Grand Vizier, and his pelisse), vii. 323.
Za’ar = a man with fair skin, red hair and blue eyes (Marocco), viii.
297.
Zabbah = lizard; bolt, vi. 247; vii. 182.
Zabbál = dung-drawer, etc., i. 312; iii. 51.
Zábít = Prefect of Police, i. 259.
Zabiyah (Pr. N.) = roe, doe, v. 147.
Zaffú (in the sense of “they displayed her”), ix. 245.
Zaghab = the chick’s down, v. 165.
Zaghzaghán (Abú Massáh = Father of the Sweeper), = magpie, vi. 182.
Záhir bi ’llah (Al-) = one prominent by the decree of Allah, i. 317.
Záhirí = plain honest Moslem, ii. 29.
Zahra = the flowery, vi. 145.
Zahr Sháh (Pr. N.), ii. 284.
Zahrawíyah = lovely as the Venus-star, viii. 251.
Zahwah = mid-time between sunrise and noon, vi. 35.
Záka = he tasted, iv. 188.
Zakar (penis) = that which betokens masculinity, iii. 3.
Zakariyá and Zakar, iv. 51.
Zakát = legal alms, i. 339.
Zakhmah (Zukhmah) = strap, stirrup-leather, viii. 18.
Zakkúm (Al-) tree of Hell, iv. 259.
Zakzúk = young of the Shál, viii. 185.
Zalábiyah bi- ’Asal = honey-fritters, vii. 164.
Zalamah (Al-) = tyrants, oppressors (police and employés), i. 273; vi.
214.
Zalzál, son of Muzalzil = Earthquake, son of Ennosigaius, vii. 79.
Zambúr = clitoris, i. 90; v. 279.
Zamiyád = guardian angel of Bihisht, _see_ Rizwán, iii. 20, 233.
Zanab Sirhán (wolf’s tail) = early dawn, iii. 146.
Zand and Zandah = fire-sticks, v. 52.
Zanj = negroes of Zanzibar, ii. 5; vi. 104.
Zanzibar (cannibals etc.), iv. 168.
Zarábín = slaves’ shoes, x. 1.
Zarbu ’l-Nawákísí = striking of gongs (pun on the word), viii. 329.
Zardah = rice dressed with honey and saffron, ii. 313; vii. 185.
Zardakhánah = Zarad (Ar. for hauberk), Khanáh (Pers. for house), vii.
363.
Zarká = the blue-eyed (Cassandre of Yamámah), ii. 103.
Zarr wa ’urwah = button and button-hole, v. 227.
Zarráf = giraffe, vii. 51.
Zarrat (vulg. Durrah) = co-wife, sister-wife, iii. 308.
Zát al-Dawáhí = Lady of Calamities, ii. 87.
Zau al-Makán = Light of the Place, ii. 81.
Zaurà = the crooked, for woman, v. 66.
Zaurá (Al-) = the bow (name of Baghdad), ix. 13.
Zawí al-furúj = habentes rimam, ii. 49.
Záwiyah = oratory, vi. 259; vii. 328.
Zaybak (Al-) = the quicksilver, iv. 75.
Zayn al-Abidín (grandson of Ali), ii. 202.
Zayn al-Mawásif (Pr. N.) = Adornment of (good) qualities, viii. 205.
Zaynab and Zayd (generic names for women and men), ix. 250.
Zebra (daughter of Sa’adah), iii. 65.
Zemzem (its water saltish), i. 284; ii. 272.
Zí’ah = village, hamlet, farm, ix. 27.
Zibl = dung, iii. 51.
Zibl Khán = Le Roi Crotte, iii. 99.
Zidd = opposite, contrary, v. 206.
Zikr = litanies, i. 124.
—— (and Edwin Arnold’s Pearls of Faith), ii. 28.
Zimbíl (Zambíl) = limp basket of palm-leaves, iv. 119.
Zimmí = a (Christian, Jewish or Majúsí) tributary, iv. 199.
Zinád = fire-sticks, viii. 80.
Zindík = Agnostic, atheist, v. 230; viii. 27.
Zirbájah = meat dressed with cumin-seed, etc., i. 278.
Zirt = broken wind; derivatives, ii. 88; ix. 291.
Ziyád bin Abí Sufyán, ii. 163.
Ziyárat = visit to a pious person or place, i. 125.
—— = visiting the Prophet’s tomb, ix. 178.
Zobabah (Zauba’ah?) = sand-storm in the desert, i. 114.
Zú al-Autád = the contriver of the stakes (Pharaoh), vi. 118.
Zú al-Kurá’a (Pr. N.) = Lord of cattle feet, iv. 95.
Zubaydah (Pr. N.) = creamkin, iv. 48; viii. 56, 158.
Zubb = penis, i. 92.
“Zug” (draught) feared by Orientals, ii. 9.
Zuhal = Saturn, ii. 75.
Zuhrí (Al-), traditionist, ii. 198; v. 81.
Zujáj bikr = unworked glass, viii. 342.
Zukák al-Nakíb = Syndic street, ii. 325.
Zukhruf = glitter, tinsel, ix. 86.
Zulf = side-lock, i. 308.
Zulm, injustice, tyranny; worst of a monarch’s crimes, i. 190.
Zunnár = ζωνάριον confounded with the “Janeo,” ii. 215.
Zur ghibban tazid hubban = call rarely that friendship last fairly, ix.
273.
Zurayk (dim. of Azrak = blue-eyed), viii. 195.
Zurk = blue-eyed, dim-sighted, purblind, vii. 164.
Zuwaylah gate, more correctly Báb Zawilah i. 269.
_INDEX III._—A.
_ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF FIRST LINES (METRICAL PORTION) IN ENGLISH._
_Prepared by_ DR. STEINGASS.
A beloved familiar o’erreigns my heart, viii. 70.
A boy of twice ten is fit for a king!, iii. 303.
A breeze of love on my soul did blow, viii. 222.
A damsel ’twas the tirer’s art had decked with snares and sleight, i.
219; x. 59.
A dancer whose figure is like a willow-branch, ix. 222.
A dancer whose form is like branch of Bán!, ix. 221.
A dog, dog-fathered, by dog-grandsire bred, viii. 15.
A fan whose breath is fraught with fragrant scent, viii. 273.
A fair one, to idolaters if she her face should show, ix. 197.
A friend in need is he who, ever true, iii. 149.
A guest hath stolen on my head and honour may he lack, viii. 295.
A hag to whom th’ unlawful lawfullest, i. 174.
A heart bore thee off in chase of the fair, ix. 282.
A heart by Allah! never soft to loverwight, vii. 222.
A Houri, by whose charms my heart is moved to sore distress, vii. 105.
A house where flowers from stones of granite grow, iii. 19.
A Jinniyah this, with her Jinn, to show, v. 149.
A King who when hosts of the foe invade, ii. 1.
A lutanist to us inclined, viii. 283.
A maiden ’twas, the dresser’s art had decked with cunning sleight,
viii. 32.
A merchant I spied whose lovers, viii. 264.
A messenger from thee came bringing union-hope, iii. 188.
A moon she rises, willow-wand she waves, iii. 237; viii. 303.
A moon, when he bends him those eyes lay bare, viii. 284.
A moon which blights you if you dare behold, ii. 4.
A night whose stars refused to run their course, iii. 299.
A palace whereon be blessings and praise, iv. 134.
A place secure from every thought of fear, i. 114.
A sage, I feel a fool before thy charms, iii. 272.
A slave of slaves there standeth at thy door, i. 89.
A sun on wand in knoll of sand she showed, i. 217; x. 58.
A thin-waist maid who shames the willow-wand, ii. 285.
A term decreed my lot I ’spy, viii. 83.
A trifle this an his eyes be sore, v. 127.
A tree whilere was I the Bulbul’s home, viii. 281.
A wand uprising from a sandy knoll, ix. 250.
A warrior showing such open hand, iv. 97.
A wasted body, heart empierced to core, ii. 314.
A youth slim waisted from whose locks and brow, i. 68.
A zephyr bloweth from the lover’s site, viii. 90.
Above the rose of cheek is thorn of lance, iii. 331.
Act on sure grounds, nor hurry fast, iv. 189.
Add other wit to thy wit, counsel craving, iv. 189.
Affright me funerals at every time, v. 111.
After thy faring never chanced I ’spy, viii. 142.
Ah, fare thee not; for I’ve no force thy faring to endure, viii. 63.
Ah! for lowe of love and longing suffer ye as suffer we?, viii. 68.
Ah Khalid! this one is a slave of love distraught, iv. 158.
Ah, often have I sought the fair! how often lief and fain, vii. 138.
Alack and alas! Patience taketh flight, viii. 263.
Alas, alack and wellaway for blamer’s calumny!, viii. 285.
Albe by me I had through day and night, iii. 267.
Albe to lover adverse be his love, iii. 266.
Albeit my vitals quiver ’neath this ban, iii. 62.
Alexandria’s a frontier, viii. 289.
All crafts are like necklaces strung on a string, i. 308.
All drinks wherein is blood the Law unclean Doth hold, i. 89.
All sons of woman albe long preserved, iv. 63.
“Allah assain those eyne! What streams of blood they shed!,” ii. 100.
Allah be good to him that gives glad tidings of thy steps, i. 239.
Allah holds Kingship! Whoso seeks without Him victory, iii. 86.
Allah, my patience fails: I have no word, iii. 344.
Allah save the rose which yellows amorn, viii. 276.
Allah, where’er thou be, His aid impart, ii. 148.
Allah’s peace on thee, House of Vacancy!, viii. 237.
Although the Merciful be doubtless with me, ix. 278.
Al-Yaman’s leven-gleam I see, ii. 179.
An but the house could know who cometh ’twould rejoice, i. 176.
An, by thy life, pass thee my funeral train, v. 70.
An fail I of my thanks to thee, i. 56.
An Fate afflict thee, with grief manifest, viii. 146.
An Fate some person ’stablish o’er thy head, iii. 89.
An faulty of one fault the beauty prove, ii. 96.
An I be healed of disease in frame, viii. 70.
An I quit Cairo and her pleasaunces, i. 290.
An we behold a lover love-foredone, v. 73.
An my palm be full of wealth and my wealth I ne’er bestow, ii. 11.
An say I:—Patient I can bear his faring, iii. 187.
An tears of blood for me, friend, thou hast shed, i. 89.
An there be one who shares with me her love, i. 180.
An thou but deign consent, A wish to heart affied, iv. 247.
An thou of pious works a store neglect, ii. 202.
An thou wouldst know my name, whose day is done, vi. 94.
An through the whole of life, iv. 190.
An Time my lover restore me I’ll blame him fain, ix. 192.
An were it asked me when by hell-fire burnt, iii. 279.
An what thou claimest were the real truth, v. 151.
An wouldst be life-long safe, vaunt not delight, viii. 94.
And Almond apricot suggesting swain, viii. 268.
And dweller in the tomb whose food is at his head, v. 238.
And eater lacking mouth and even maw, v. 240.
And fairest Fawn, we said to him Portray, viii. 272.
And haply whenas strait descends on lot of generous youth, iii. 131.
And in brunettes is mystery, couldst thou but read it right, iv. 258.
And in my liver higher flames the fire, vii. 366.
And loveling weareth on his cheek a mole, v. 65.
And pity one who erst in honour throve, ii. 149.
And shaddock mid the garden paths, on bough, viii. 272.
And Solomon, when Allah to him said, vi. 86.
And the lips of girls, that are perfume sweet, v. 79.
And the old man crept o’er the worldly ways, iv. 41.
And trees of orange fruiting ferly fair, viii. 271.
And wand-like Houri who can passion heal, v. 149.
And ’ware her scorpions when pressing them, viii. 209.
And when birdies o’er-warble its lakelet, it gars, ix. 6.
And, when she announceth the will to sing, viii. 166.
Albeit this thy case lack all resource, v. 69.
Allah watered a land, and upsprang a tree, v. 244.
Answer, by Allah! Sepulchre, are all his beauties gone?, i. 239.
Appeared not my excuse till hair had clothed his cheek, iii. 57.
Apple which joins hues twain and brings to mind, viii. 268.
Apple whose hue combines in union mellow, i. 158.
As a crescent-moon in the garth her form, viii. 207.
As for me, of him I feel naught affright, vi. 98.
As long as palms shall shift the flower, v. 136.
As love waxt longer less met we tway, v. 78.
As one of you who mounted mule, viii. 297.
As she willed she was made, and in such a way that when, iv. 191.
As the Sage watched the stars, the semblance clear, i. 206.
As though ptisane of wine on her lips honey dew, iii. 57.
Ask (if needs thou ask) the compassionate, ix. 29.
Ask of my writ, what wrote my pen in dole, iii. 274.
Ass and Umm Amr’ went their way, v. 118.
Bare hills and camp-ground desolate, v. 130.
Baulks me my Fate as tho’ she were my foe, viii. 130.
Be as thou wilt, for Allah is bountiful, viii. 277.
Be as thou wilt, for Allah still is bounteous Lord, ii. 202.
Be mild to brother mingling, iv. 110.
Be mild what time thou’rt ta’en with anger and despite, iv. 221.
Be mild when rage shall come to afflict thy soul, iv. 54.
Be praises mine to all-praiseworthy Thee, ii. 261.
Be proud; I’ll crouch! Bully; I’ll bear! Despise; I’ll pray!, iii. 188.
Be sure all are villains and so bide safe, iii. 142.
Bear our salams, O Dove, from this our stead, viii. 236.
Beareth for love a burden sore this soul of me, viii. 66.
Beauty they brought with him to make compare, i. 144.
Beguiled as Fortune who her guile displays, iv. 22.
Behind the veil a damsel sits with gracious beauty dight, viii. 210.
Behold a house that’s like the Dwelling of Delight, viii. 183.
Behold this lovely garden! ’tis as though, ii. 240.
Belike my Fortune may her bridle turn, i. 152.
Belike Who Yúsuf to his kin restored, iv. 103.
Beloved, why this strangeness, why this hate?, iv. 234.
Bethink thee not of worldly state, iii. 328.
Bid thou thy phantom distance keep, vii. 108.
Better ye ’bide and I take my leave, i. 154.
Beware her glance I rede thee ’tis like wizard wight, ii. 295.
Beware of losing hearts of men by thine injurious deed, x. 50.
Beware that eye-glance which hath magic might, iii. 252.
Black girls in acts are white, and ’tis as though, iv. 251.
Black girls not white are they, iv. 251.
Blame not! said I to all who blamèd me, viii. 95.
Blest be his beauty; blest the Lord’s decree, i. 177.
Blighted by her yet am I not to blame, viii. 255.
Blows from my lover’s land a zephyr cooly sweet, ii. 311.
Boon fortune sought him in humblest way, viii. 301.
Boy-like of back side, in the deed of kind, v. 157,