Context [Arabic poetry][1] is the oldest and the most prominent form of Arabic literature today. Ancient Arabic poetry is probably the primary source for describing the social, political and intellectual life in the Arab world. Modern poetry has gone through major changes and shifts both in the form and in the topics. Content The dataset contains over 58K poems that extend from the 6th century to the present day. Along with each poem, poem metadata have also been scrapped such as poet name, the poem, and its category. The data were scraped from adab.com Acknowledgements Collecting this dataset was not possible without the rich collection of poems in Adab.com [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_poetry