Abulghasem hassan ebn Ahmad Onsori Balkhi:

He was born in Balkh in 929 A.D. He & his father were merchant. But one-day thieves stole their money. After this accident he tried to become a scientist. He became a great poet in the king’s court & save a lot of wealth (that have written all of his means of livelihood have made of Gold and Silver.

Most of his poems are about king & his wars. The complete words of him had 30,000 distiches but we have only 2,000 distiches of them. His other books are: Vamegh and Ozra, Shadbehr and Ainolhayat &Sorkhbot and Khengbot. This good poet was died in 1010 A.D.