Desert tracings six classical Arabian odes - ʿAlqama Ibn-ʿAbada; Šanfarā aš- -525; Labīd Ibn-Rabīʿa 560-661; ʿAntara Ibn-Šaddād ca. 6. Jh; Aʿšā, Maimūn Ibn-Qais al- 565-629; Ḏū-ʾr-Rumma, Ġailān Ibn-ʿUqba 696-735 (Wesleyan poetry in translation, 1989)