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 1 Pre     |   onward the governors of the Persian provinces seem to have given
 2 Pre     |       from the Pleiades!" The Persian historian who describes
 3 Pre     |       a relentless enemy. The Persian historian, Lutfallah, relates
 4 Pre     |       extravagant praise. "On Persian soil," he declared, "the
 5 Pre     |    his pearl fisheries in the Persian Gulf. He compares this Sultan
 6 Pre     |  Mosalla." The letters of the Persian words Khak-i-Mosalla, dust
 7 Pre     |     most popular books in the Persian language. From India to
 8 Pre     | repeated by all who speak the Persian tongue, and the number of
 9 Pre     |      seems to me, is what the Persian asks of his teacher.~Hafiz
10 Pre     |      of the most famous among Persian writers have sprung. Like
11 Pre     |       in his Biography of the Persian Poets traces back mysticism~[
12 Pre     |    the peculiar temper of the Persian mind--so congenial, indeed,
13 Pre     |       possible to read in the Persian poem the words of the wise
14 Pre     |      true. "Hafiz is the most Persian of the Persians," he says. "
15 Pre     |    she is allegorical) of the Persian.~Hafiz and Dante, it is
16 I(*)    |    held in abomination by the Persian Shi'ites, both as the head
17 I(*)    |     epitome of the history of Persian faiths. It indicated primarily
18 I(*)    |    the priest of the first of Persian religions, that of Zoroaster.
19 V(*)    |    part played by Zuleikha in Persian tales is far more creditable
20 VII(*)  |         Those who have seen a Persian garden will not find it
21 VII(*)  |       play so large a part in Persian poetry. Often enough you
22 VII(*)  |       the blinding glare of a Persian sun into a cool and shadowy
23 IX(*)   |    Hafiz in Shiraz. With true Persian exaggeration the poet must
24 XIV(*)  |        The moon, according to Persian superstition, has a baneful
25 XV(*)   |       Night is with child"--a Persian proverb extraordinarily
26 XVI(*)  |       bare translation of the Persian words. For the meaning of
27 XVIII(*)|        Stanza 1.--Blue is the Persian colour of mourning. Hafiz
28 XVIII(*)|        the Syringa Persica or Persian lilac. In the early spring,
29 XVIII(*)| special guardians. About four Persian miles from Shiraz there
30 XIX(*)  |      exact translation of the Persian word for greed, and there
31 XIX(*)  |     Danes, so a clause in the Persian litany of the thirteenth
32 XIX(*)  |  Sahara.~"One poor robe." The Persian runs man dervish-i-yek kaba "--
33 XXI(*)  |      He goes on to say: "Most Persian dervishes, although they
34 XXI(*)  |  clothed in one colour is the Persian idiom for sincerity. He
35 XXV(*)  |   Browne questioned a learned Persian, and received the reply
36 XXV(*)  |     proof of their truth. The Persian added, however, that the
37 XXVI(*) |       grandson of Darius, the Persian Gushtasp. He is supposed
38 XXVI(*) | Scripture who married Esther. Persian historians ascribe to him
39 XXVI(*) |      and Shirin are famous in Persian legend. Shirin is called
40 XXVI(*) |       Parwiz, who came to the Persian throne in A.D. 591. It was
41 XXVI(*) |   tulip growing upon a barren Persian hillside. On the top of
42 XXXII(*)|  Stanza 4.--It is a favourite Persian image to describe the hair
43 XXXVI(*)|      the name of a well-known Persian story which has been retold
44 XXXIX   |      of distant Ind,~Except a Persian sweetmeat that was brought~
45 XXXIX(*)|       of Ghiyasuddin, and the Persian sweetmeat is the ode that
46 XL(*)   |       Stanza 2.--According to Persian superstition, the smoke
47 XL(*)   |        not knowing," says the Persian commentator of the Mesnavi