Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: The Inconsistent

TO A LADY, UPON HER REFUSAL OF A PRESENT OF MELONS, AND HER REJECTION OF THE ADDRESSES OF AN ADMIRER. WHEN I sent you my melons, you cried out with scorn, "They ought to be heavy, and wrinkled, and yellow:" When I offered myself, whom those graces adorn, You flouted, and called me an ugly old fellow! Next: On the Capture of Jerusalem, in the First Crusade, by Almodhafer Alabiwerdy