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1 Pre | took place (see note to Poem V.), and not at the time
2 Pre | was engaged in composing a poem upon Sufiism, and being
3 Pre | he bade Hafiz finish the poem, and at the same time cursed
4 Pre | verse." There is a long poem addressed to Abu Ishac,
5 Pre | Oh discreet friend (my poem), in some retired spot to
6 Pre | roadside. He sent to Ahmed a poem in which he loaded his name
7 Pre | says in a pathetic little poem written while he was at
8 Pre | story is told in a note to Poem XXI.~From the Sultan of
9 Pre | Shiraz. There is a short poem full of foreboding which
10 Pre | In the Gulshen-i-Raz, a poem written in the year 1317,
11 Pre | possible to read in the Persian poem the words of the wise Diotima
12 I(*) | of this song, the opening poem in the Divan, is borrowed
13 I(*) | borrowed from an Arabic poem by Yezid ibn Moawiyah, the
14 II(*) | Stanza 1.--This poem has been expounded to me
15 II(*) | that Hafiz composed this poem in a beautiful garden belonging
16 III(*) | and indeed for the whole poem) a mystical interpretation.
17 V(*) | theme of a long metaphysical poem. The part played by Zuleikha
18 V(*) | great beauty.~The whole poem has received a mystical
19 IX(*) | Stanza 1.--This poem is addressed to the Vizir
20 XI(*) | been said in the Note to Poem II., was a mimic Paradise
21 XIV(*) | Stanza 1.--Hafiz wrote this poem upon the death of his son.~
22 XVI(*) | as, indeed, is the whole poem. I have looked for an explanation
23 XIX(*) | See Note to Stanza i of Poem III.~Stanza 5.--"Narrow-eyedness"
24 XIX(*) | its mystical sense, the poem describes how Hafiz found
25 XXI(*) | mystical interpretation of the poem. There is, however, a story
26 XXI(*) | sending to Feiz Allah this poem as an excuse for failing
27 XXIII(*) | This poem is said to have been written
28 XXVI(*) | see Note to Stanza 2 of Poem II. He was the fourth king
29 XXVI(*) | is a tradition that this poem was sent to the King of
30 XXX(*) | Note to the third stanza of Poem XVIII.~Stanza 2.--The quarter
31 XXXV(*) | The second line of this poem is as often quoted as any,
32 XXXV(*) | internal evidence that this poem was sent to some friends
33 XXXVII(*)| See Note to Stanza 4 of Poem XXXIII.~The word bezoar
34 XXXIX(*) | commemorating their devotion in a poem, and to this end he composed
35 XL(*) | See Note to Stanza 3 of Poem XVIII.~Stanza 3.--Zohra
36 XL(*) | see Note to Stanza 3 of poem XXXIII.~
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