Category: Poetry
_Thus said the Poet: “When Death comes to you, All ye whose life-sand through the hour-glass slips, He lays two fingers on your ears, and two Upon your eyes he lays, one on your lips, Whispering: Silence!” Although deaf thine ear, Thine eye, my Hafiz, suffer Time’s eclipse, Th...
_Thus said the Poet: “When Death comes to you, All ye whose life-sand through the hour-glass slips, He lays two fingers on your ears, and two Upon your eyes he lays, one on your...
2. Part 2There is another Khawameddin who is frequently mentioned, the Vizir of Sultan Oweis of Baghdad. He founded in Shiraz a college for Hafiz, in which the poet gave lectures on the...
3. Part 3It has been well said that all religious teachers who have honestly tried to construct a working formula, have found that one of their greatest difficulties lay in reconciling t...
4. Part 4It is a curious coincidence (if it be nothing more) that at the time when mystical poetry was taking a recognised place in the literature of Persia and of India, it was also spr...
5. Part 5Mirth, Spring, to linger in a garden fair, What more has earth to give? All ye that wait, Where is the Cup-bearer, the flagon where? When pleasant hours slip from the hand of Fa...
6. Part 6The Day of Hope, hid beneath Sorrow’s veil, Has shown its face—ah, cry that all may hear: Come forth! the powers of night no more prevail! Praise be to God, now that the rose is...
7. Part 7Ah, swerve not from the path of righteousness Though the world lure thee! like a wrinkled crone, Hiding beneath her robe lasciviousness, She plunders them that pause and heed he...
8. Part 8_Stanza 1._—This poem is addressed to the Vizir of Sultan Oweis of Baghdad, Hadji Kawameddin, who founded a college for Hafiz in Shiraz. With true Persian exaggeration the poet...
9. Part 9_Stanza 2._—The quarter of Jafrabad has ceased to exist. Its position was to the east of the town, opposite to the fields and to the ruined mosque of Mosalla. Between Jafrabad a...