Motif
Beloved as life-giving beauty
beloved_as_life_giving_beauty
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Beloved Imagery and Poetry. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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persian
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The Persian Literature, Volume 2, The Gulistan XVIII / XXVII / CHAPTER IV / CHAPTER V; lines 2879-2969 confidence: medium
In youth the narrator has close relations with a young person who has a melodious pipe and moon-bright form; the young person's cheek and lips are praised through images of immortality and sweetness.
The young person's cheek is linked with the fountain of immortality, the lips with sweetness, and the form with the full moon.
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