Ali Mahmoud Taha (Arabic: علي محمود طه) (1901–1949) was an Egyptian romantic poet. He has been called several nicknames, such as: The Engineer and The Lost Sailor.
Nevertheless, Taha was not as immersed in romanticism as Ibrahim Nagi and Mohammad al-Hamshari.
Furthermore, Taha's poets were politically-colored, but even provocative and patriotic, despite his death, which was before the 23rd-of-July Revolution.
Taha was born to a family of the middle-class in Mansoura, in Delta, Egypt.
When the water caresses the shade of the tree,
And the clouds court the light of the moon,
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