"Choice wine, whose bitter strength can sweeten best The embittered mind, and flood The air with colour, as when goshawk's breast Is dyed with pheasant's blood"
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Persian literaturePoets from IranPeople from Tus, IranMedieval Persian writers10th-century Persian poets
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Quoted in Studies in Islamic Poetry, p. 9
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Daqiqi
Abu Mansur Daqiqi (c. 935 — 977) was one of the most prominent Persian poets of the Samanid era.
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