Muntakhab al-tawarikh 347: CXXXV. Musawi of Mashhad.

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His descent is indicated by his poetical name. He had a poetical turn of mind. The following verses are his:— Since my heart in thy absence finds no solace in any colour? Even those who bear witness to the grief which, in my misery, I suffer, are afflicted with grief; They are my blood-red tears, my pale cheeks, and my wakeful eyes.”
“O thou, from whose cheek the moonlight has borrowed its brightness, And in envy of whose beauty the sun burns!”
“Each arrow that thou shootest, my moonlike beauty with bow-like eyebrow, Is as deeply embedded in my bones as the marrow of them. The arrow which that beauty with bow-like eyebrows has shot at any heart Has been a salve to its hidden wounds.”