Quatrains of Mahsati Ganjavi / Quatrain Number 114

This is a single quatrain, number 114, from the collected rubai poems of Mahsati Ganjavi. In it, the speaker declares herself to be Mahsati, unrivaled among all beauties, and asserts her own singular worth and distinction. The poem is a brief, confident statement of self-regard and identity, characteristic of the rubai form. Mahsati Ganjavi is among the notable Persian-language poets of the classical tradition, and her quatrains are valued as rare surviving examples of a woman's voice in that literary heritage.