Canst thou make me immortal, O thou that blamest me so For haunting the battle and loving the pleasures that fly? If thou hast not the power to ward me from Death, let me go To mee…
Tarafa, born in 543 BC, was an Arabian poet of the Banu Bakr tribe. As one of the most celebrated poets of pre-Islamic poetry, his work is featured in the ancient Arabic anthology, Muʻallaqāt, which means The Suspended Odes or The Hanging Poems, compiled in the eighth century. Tarafa was killed in 569 BC.