Before talking to a wolf, the speaker of a poem in this collection addresses the night, who presses her loins and breasts upon him, and describes the stars as tied down by ropes. One of this collection’s contributors delivered a letter that told the receiving king to bury him alive, while another was killed by a poisoned robe sent by an emperor. This collection repeatedly alludes to a 40-year war that began after the horse Dahis lost a race. A poem in this collection begins “let us stop and weep,” (15[1])before describing how (15[1])the (15[1])north and south (*) winds toss sands over a lover’s desolate encampment. An enslaved man who became a knight wrote a poem in this collection (10[1])set at the house of his beloved cousin ‘Abla. (10[1])The work of Ṭarafah, ‘Antarah, and Imru’ al-Qais appear in this set of qaṣīdas. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this collection of pre-Islamic Arabian (10[1])poems named for being placed on golden (10[1])threads. ■END■ (10[3]0[3])