As polished ivory. Like the spring, her cheek
Presents a radiant bloom--in stature tall,
And o'er her silvery brightness, richly flow
Dark musky ringlets clustering to her feet."
Khakani, considered the most learned of Persia's lyric poets, wrote some beautiful verses in which womanly charms find place. Such is his poem The Unknown Beauty, in which occur the lines:
"I saw thy form of waving grace!
I heard thy soft and gentle sighs;
I gazed on that enchanting face,
And looked in thy narcissus eyes;
Oh! by the hopes thy smiles allowed,