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Safiya bint Musafir

“Emptied with weeping / my eyes are / two buckets of the waterman / as he walks among orchard trees.”
- Safiya bint Musafir,
- "At the Badr Trench" (c. 7th cent.), in Joanna Bankier and Deirdre Lashgari, eds., Women Poets of the World (1983)

Safiya bint Musafir, Arabian poet

(7th cent. CE)