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503 Pre | two conclusions that are commonly drawn from the statement
504 VI | Mine is the joy of her companionship~Whose healing lip is laid
505 XXXII(*) | Her long locks are often compared to deadly snakes, and her
506 XI(*) | lake, a month's journey in compass. On the banks of this lake
507 XXI(*) | beggary. Hafiz was moved to compassion and gave him the remainder
508 Pre | if he be wise, discover compensations for his toil by the wayside.
509 VI | door of Kismet lies~No just complaint-a mind like water clear,~A
510 Pre | heart."~Once only did he comply with the invitations of
511 XXXVII(*)| some animals, formed of concentric layers of animal matter
512 Pre | crieth, 'I am God.'"~The conception of the union and interdependence
513 Pre | nimbus of inert sentiment all conceptions of God, of man, and of the
514 Pre | direct his steps. Of the two conclusions that are commonly drawn
515 XXXIV | Between my Lord and me such concord lies.~As makes the Huris
516 Pre | worker of miracles. He was condemned to death with horrible tortures
517 Pre | Sufi and orthodox he alike condemns: "The ascetic is the serpent
518 Pre | Whenever he was not engaged in conducting expeditions against his
519 XVIII(*) | would appear to him and confer upon him the immortal gift
520 XL(*) | also that word." The angels confided to her the secret of God,
521 Pre | with Mansur, who repaid his confidence by imprisoning and blinding
522 Pre | holding it their duty to conform outwardly, and no discredit
523 Pre | withheld by the necessity of conforming with the teaching of the
524 XVIII(*) | prophet whom the Mahommadans confound with Phineas, Elias, and
525 Pre | little book,[2] found himself confronted with this difficulty, since
526 Pre | jewels." In several verses he congratulates Mansur upon a victory and
527 XXX(*) | sweetmeats, and when the congregation has finished eating, the
528 XXI(*) | curls, long garments, and conical caps embroidered in many
529 Pre | there is in reality but one connecting link between them, and that
530 V(*) | made reparation to their conscience for accepting a pay lawfully
531 Pre | saying, that his heart may consent unto it; then, of thy kindness,
532 XL(*) | agree to become, but they consented to drink wine, "not knowing,"
533 Pre | accession to the throne and the consequent removal of an edict against
534 XVI | glass~Ere all is nought!~Consider the rose that breaks into
535 Pre | history, and points to a considerable~[1. The "Travels of Ibn
536 XXI(*) | poet a further present, consisting of some at least of the
537 XX | threw back the veil of woe,~Consoled by Hafiz melody:~From out
538 IX | Book of the World lives my constancy.~But when the Day of Reckoning
539 XXI | Encircles fear of death and constant dread~It is a head-dress
540 Pre | resurrection of the body, which is constantly insisted upon by Mahommad.
541 XXV(*) | one of the stars in the constellation of Cassiopea is of evil
542 Pre | who have honestly tried to construct a working formula, have
543 Pre | question was only settled by consulting his poems, which, on being
544 XXXVII | abiding, let the goblet's fire~Consume the fleeting harvest Earth
545 Pre | the seventeenth century, containing the description of twelve
546 Pre | quarters of the town, and contemplated insuring himself of a third
547 Pre | himself up completely to the contemplative life, but combined the functions
548 VIII | nor Is Not let thy mind contend~Rest assured all perfection
549 Pre | daughters, and among our mothers contention, and the father is evilly
550 Pre | court!" he writes --and the context shows that the allusion
551 Pre | Ten holy men were with him continually, reading the Koran aloud
552 XXI(*) | was now himself unable to continue his journey for want of
553 Pre | therefore both confused and contradictory. "A man may say," remarks
554 VII(*) | paradise is one of those strong contrasts so common in the East which
555 Pre | tradition that~[1. Dr. Johnson's contribution to this vexed question is
556 Pre | to enforce rather than to control a disposition to mysticism.
557 Pre | brave people, not to be controlled by kings, and he will not
558 III | bound,~Each morn and eve convoys of greeting fair~I send
559 V(*) | and great quantities of cooked food were prepared and set
560 XIV | Camel-driver, though the cordage start,~For God's sake help
561 XXV | long-desired and flaming coronet,~The cruel stinging thorns
562 XXXI | the hours with wine's red coronet--~The sun of merriment ere
563 Pre | sees God in the form of a corporal being; in the second he
564 Pre | gospels," he says, "fix quite correctly as the highest law of morality,
565 Pre | was based upon a marked correspondence in tastes. "Since the hour,"
566 Pre | of distinct personality, corresponding to the conditions, quite
567 I(*) | which is obtained at the cost of the deer's life-blood
568 Pre | brave in battle, wise in council, ardent in religion, but
569 XXXVI | knew not his desire who counselled thee:~Question his rags
570 Pre | vizir, Jelaleddin, as a counsellor, and Hafiz as a teacher. "
571 I | Hear the Tavern-keeper who counsels you:~"With wine, with red
572 XXIX | fled from out my door--~God counts our tears and knows our
573 II(*) | un globe terrestre mis au courant, et il me souvient qu'il
574 Pre | discover it. At last, in the course of their search, they fell
575 Pre | from the attacks of his cousin Mansur, but in 1388 he was
576 VI | Shall they not satisfy thy craving heart?~I have enough of
577 XXXIV(*) | and yellow, that God might create out of it the races of mankind.
578 XXXIV(*) | them the names of all the creatures of the earth, though they
579 VII | Ah, foolish for future credit to slave,~And to leave the
580 V(*) | Persian tales is far more creditable than that which is assigned
581 XXI(*) | religion. They are, however, credited with working miracles, and
582 XXV | end!~Autumn's abundance, creeping Autumn's mirth,~Are ended
583 XXI(*) | a picturesque and motley crew. One or two of them were
584 Pre | within his heart a voice that crieth, 'I am God.'"~The conception
585 Pre | several occasions he had seen criminals brought before Mahommad
586 XXXII(*) | by a Western poet: "Those crisped snaky golden locks," and
587 Pre | popularity, especially when his criticisms of such as disagree with
588 Pre | divin et Famour terrestre se croisent d'une façon souvent difficile
589 XXXIX | lure thee! like a wrinkled crone,~Hiding beneath her robe
590 Pre | heavens be for ever in the crook of thy polo stick, and the
591 XXVI(*) | say the Persians, the true Cross, which had been enclosed
592 XI(*) | refreshment after they have crossed the terrible bridge, sharper
593 XVIII | threshold of a friend~Be crownèd with the dust that crowns
594 XVIII | crownèd with the dust that crowns the meek.~ ~
595 Pre | power of the house of Hulagu crumbled away. There followed a long
596 VII | The bricks that repair its crumbling walls.~Trust not the word
597 XIV | entwined.~Like to the parrot crunching sugar, good~Seemed the world
598 II(*) | faisait des immortels, il se crut Dieu et voulut être adoré.
599 III | voice rings in mine cars~Crying: "Bear patiently the bitter
600 Pre | and always seems to me cuckooed over like a borrowed thing,
601 Pre | shrewd suspicion that the Cupbearer brought him a wine other
602 Pre | institui, currente rota cur urceus exit," and perhaps
603 II | hyacinth's purple tresses curled,~The wind of morning through
604 Pre | amphora coepit institui, currente rota cur urceus exit," and
605 Pre | think it was not only to curry favour with a king that
606 Pre | poem, and at the same time cursed him and his works. "They
607 Pre | Baghdad had been considerably curtailed. On Abu Said's death, Abu
608 XXV | laughs the pipe, the merry cymbals kiss;~Under the history
609 Pre | rested under the shade of cypress-trees. When, some sixty years
610 XXVI(*) | King lay, and drawing a dagger, she stabbed herself and
611 Pre | silks, horses, a scarlet daïs, a royal standard, and a
612 XXII | without kisses many and dalliance sweet;~If thousands of voices
613 V(*) | to perform their indecent dances before us, as they were
614 XIX(*) | to be delivered from the Danes, so a clause in the Persian
615 XXI(*) | cloaked his fears of the dangers of the road and the discomforts
616 Pre | vagueness of a philosophy that dares not speak out, which repels
617 Pre | replied, 'His spirit is darkened and he knows not that he
618 Pre | There is strife among our daughters, and among our mothers contention,
619 VIII(*) | Vienne et de Grenobles~Le Dauphin, les preux, les senés?~Où
620 III(*) | of God, Solomon, son of David, to Bilkis, Queen of Saba,
621 VI | swiftly, fleets our little day--~Swift, but enough for me!~
622 XXXII(*) | locks are often compared to deadly snakes, and her curls to
623 Pre | teacher with those of a dealer in fruit and vegetables. "
624 XXIV(*) | acknowledged that he had dealt a good blow on behalf of
625 V | counsel direct thy feet;~Far dearer to youth than dear life
626 Pre | that he loved, perhaps as dearly as Dante loved Florence,
627 Pre | aside for a moment from the death-bed of the King, and an anecdote,
628 Pre | that, on his death, it was debated whether his body might be
629 XXI(*) | embroidered in many colours--debauched and dissolute fellows, who,
630 Pre | was not unmindful of the debt he owed him. "My Grey-Beard,"
631 XXI(*) | had sent him in paying his debts and in making gifts to his
632 Pre | wonderful beauty, not growing or decaying, waxing or waning . . .
633 XXI(*) | related that the King of the Deccan, Mahmud Shah Bahmani, had
634 VII(*) | write down that which ye deceitfully devise," says the Koran (
635 Pre | doctrines, each reader must decide for himself, and each will
636 VII(*) | It was this verse which decided the right of Hafiz to receive
637 Pre | mind for such exercises may decipher if he choose.~Hafiz is rather
638 XXXVII | beneath her flying feet,~To deck the place thy mistress passes
639 Pre | perhaps with prudence, declined the invitation, saying that
640 XXXI(*) | which month the Prophet decreed that from two hours before
641 XXX(*) | his duty to write down the decrees of God; through him the
642 XXI | of thine!~Where word and deed alike one colour bear,~The
643 XVII | fruitful field.~Trust not in deeds--the Eternal Day~Shall reveal
644 XVII | tell~Whether in Heaven or deepest Hell,~Fair or vile, shall
645 I(*) | obtained at the cost of the deer's life-blood and the tears
646 XXI(*) | singular generosity he sent the defaulting poet a further present,
647 Pre | conquerors, and the flight of the defeated.~[1. For the history of
648 Pre | Zein-el-Abeddin was engaged in defending himself from the attacks
649 Pre | Mahommad ibn Muzaffar were not deficient, but among a race of soldiers
650 XXIV | proud narcissus flowers defied~Thy shining eyes to prove
651 XXXIX | in one night was wrought,~Defies the limits set by space
652 I(*) | into disrepute, and was degraded so far that it came to mean
653 XVII(*) | relates that there are seven degrees of punishment, but eight
654 Pre | That which your Majesty has deigned to speak," replied Hafiz (
655 XVI | ah rest! while the Shadow delays,~For Time's self is nought
656 Pre | accounted a rival to the King of Delhi in his generosity to men
657 Pre | be taken captive by the delicious music of his songs, the
658 XXXIX(*) | discursive in poetry) was much delighted. The three cups of wine
659 Pre | thereby popularised it, delighting, as only an Oriental can,
660 Pre | father's lifetime, that thou demandest of him the two wisest men
661 XL(*) | before their judgment-seat demanding redress against her husband,
662 Pre | the answer to all human demands when their own heart is
663 Pre | façon souvent difficile à démêler. L'origine de se singulier
664 XXIV | them to whom all light's denied.~Before the tavern door
665 Pre | be the better of the two "denique sit quod vis, simplex dumtaxat
666 Pre | of the Sufis led them to deny the morality of all actions,
667 XXIV(*) | sought. He accused Hafiz of denying the Resurrection, basing
668 XI(*) | his song of praise, and so departs.~Stanza 4.--The river Kausar
669 Pre | Muzaffaride line after Timur's departure. "Give me the cup," he says
670 XXXVII(*)| layers of animal matter deposited round some foreign substance.
671 XIV(*) | of Adam, and that, out of derision, Hafiz; calls the human
672 Pre | the freer doctrines he had derived from his teacher. He also
673 XIX(*) | robe." The Persian runs man dervish-i-yek kaba "--i.e. I, a poor man
674 Pre | end when Oweis, another descendant of Hulagu, seized the throne.
675 XVI(*) | He means either facilis descensus Averni, or, more probably,
676 XV | Life shall pause at the deserted door,~The cold dead body
677 XXIX | And guide thine ark to the desirèd shore!~The goal lies far,
678 XXI | It is a head-dress much desired--and yet~Art sure 'tis worth
679 XXI(*) | taste in literature, was desirous of attracting him to his
680 XXVI(*) | humble lover Ferhad. He, despairing of ever reaching one whose
681 Pre | was equally unwilling to despise the good things of this
682 XXVI | knot of thy heart's care,~Despite the warning that the Heavens
683 XV | cruel Ethiopian band,~Sorrow despoiled the kingdom of my heart~
684 II(*) | froideur, et jamais ne se desséchaient les eaux ni les plantes.'
685 Pre | which we of a later age were destined to inhabit. We can forgive
686 Pre | of Egypt; but they were destitute of any real authority, and
687 XIX(*) | down the old reservoirs and destroying the irrigating system, completely
688 XIX(*) | and devastated Persia. The destruction wrought by them was very
689 Pre | East it is difficult to determine, and what his compatriots
690 Pre | teaching, and Professor Deussen, in his book on Metaphysics,
691 XIX(*) | Timur, they overran and devastated Persia. The destruction
692 Pre | Mahommad; some that it was a development of the doctrines of Zoroaster
693 Pre | ces pays," he says, "s'est développée une vaste littérature où
694 Pre | with wine." Moreover, a devoted lover of Shiraz, Hafiz was
695 XXVI(*) | buried in the ground. He was devotedly attached to his wife Shirin,
696 XXV(*) | earnestness. Just as if a man devotes all his energies to the
697 Pre | then return unmoved to his devotions. Shah Shudja once asked
698 Pre | contains the tombs of many devout Persians who have desired
699 XXXIX | jasmine's shamèd cheek the dew~Gathers like sweat, she
700 XXXIX | her lifted chalice bears~A dewy wine of Heaven's minist'
701 XXXIX(*) | His real name was Musa ibn Dhafar. He was a magician and an
702 XVIII | eyes are even those~That diadems of might and empire bear;~
703 XVI | s self is nought and the dial's face.~On the lip of Oblivion
704 XXV(*) | geomancer, who, by means of dice, gave him much information
705 Pre | poet towards a picturesque diction (for all poetry must, to
706 Pre | of the words in the Sufi dictionary have been expounded to the
707 XVI | repines though she fade and die--~The powers of the world
708 Pre | Monastery?"[1] That is, what difference is there between the religion
709 Pre | croisent d'une façon souvent difficile à démêler. L'origine de
710 XXI(*) | verses and the philosophic dignity in which Hafiz had cloaked
711 VIII(*) | preux, les senés?~Où de Dijon, Sallin et Dolles,~Les sires
712 II(*) | me dit: Djam-i-Djemshid, dil-i-agah: "la coupe de Djemshid c'
713 Pre | satisfactory way out of the dilemma, it is at least unjust to
714 XXXIX | And thou whose sense is dimmed with piety,~Thou too shalt
715 IV | where Life's waters flow,~A dimpled well of tears is set below,~
716 Pre | poem the words of the wise Diotima to Socrates: "He who has
717 V(*) | quitter~L'amour de ma mie,~Je dirais au roi Henri:~Reprenez votre
718 XXVI(*) | the Persians as Ardisher Dirazdast, the Artaxerxes Longimanus
719 Pre | father, but it was an energy directed into different channels;
720 XXI(*) | their shoulders--barefooted, dirty, and covered with vermin.
721 Pre | Shah Yahya, much to the disadvantage of the latter, saying that
722 Pre | his criticisms of such as disagree with him are as harsh and
723 XXXV(*) | rose-gardens upon its banks, for it disappeared completely in the terrible
724 Pre | upon the water's face and disappears." These are the utterances
725 Pre | Shudja, nor was it only to disarm the criticism of stricter
726 XXXI | aban the troops of Grief disband,~And crown the hours with
727 XXI(*) | dangers of the road and the discomforts of seasickness. With singular
728 XXX(*) | the preacher begins his discourse. This takes place between
729 Pre | the following terms: "Oh discreet friend (my poem), in some
730 XXXIX(*) | have turned towards the discursive in poetry) was much delighted.
731 Pre | reproached Hafiz with the discursiveness of his songs. "In one and
732 XXV(*) | into other channels. "I discussed," says the traveller, "the
733 XXI(*) | farewell to some friends, he disembarked, and in all haste made the
734 V(*) | the soldiers came round, dishes of rice and great quantities
735 I | Have brought me mine own, a dishonoured name.~What cloak shall cover
736 XLII | mine,~Loyal and wise, to dispel my care."~None remembers
737 XXXIV(*) | confusion of tongues and the dispersal of the children of Adam.~
738 Pre | It is more difficult to dispose of the resurrection of the
739 Pre | some of his disciples were disputing over predestination, he
740 XXV | my lady's hair~Grief nor disquiet come to me no more.~What
741 I(*) | Zoroaster, their title fell into disrepute, and was degraded so far
742 Pre | contemporary with Hafiz, it is distinctly laid down that God will
743 Pre | and sometimes unwise, to distinguish from an exaggerated expression
744 Pre | of the Greeks, strangely distorted by the Eastern mind, and
745 Pre | related that he used to distribute 200 tomans daily among the
746 XXX(*) | what is left over will be distributed among the poor." "I admired
747 V(*) | come principally from this district. Whilst we were resting
748 Pre | strained. Shah Shudja may have distrusted the loyalty of one to whom
749 XXI(*) | buffalo's horn so as to disturb the whole neighbourhood.
750 Pre | the other. I foresee much disturbance in Shiraz; Kerman is the
751 Pre | Tartar army called away by disturbances in the northern parts of
752 II(*) | mettant le doigt au front, me dit: Djam-i-Djemshid, dil-i-agah: "
753 Pre | explain satisfactorily the divergence of their opinions from those
754 Pre | true wisdom until he has divested himself of the errors of
755 Pre | vaste littérature où l'amour divin et Famour terrestre se croisent
756 XXV(*) | presage. Besides these omens, divinations are taken from the movements
757 Pre | Youth, but between us a divorce had been pronounced." And
758 II(*) | doigt au front, me dit: Djam-i-Djemshid, dil-i-agah: "la coupe de
759 Pre | double sens. Comme ceux de Djellaleddin Rumi, de Wali, &c. . . .
760 Pre | not know under what Sufi doctor Hafiz studied. As a young
761 VII(*) | Nearly all the celebrated doctors of whom the Sufis boast
762 XXI(*) | rather than a theological document. It is related that the
763 II(*) | et Habib, me mettant le doigt au front, me dit: Djam-i-Djemshid,
764 VIII(*) | Où de Dijon, Sallin et Dolles,~Les sires et les fils aînés?~
765 III | s army waste thy heart's domain,~I send my life to bring
766 XXXVII | flagon laugh and Heaven's dome~Thrill with an answering
767 Pre | curse of the East. "The dominant characteristic of Sufiism,"
768 XII | not the enemy~When love is done--~Where is the extinguished
769 V(*) | quotes~"Si le roi m'avait donné~Paris sa grande ville,~Et
770 VII | not my name~In the Book of Doom, nor pass judgment on it;~
771 XXIX | turned and fled from out my door--~God counts our tears and
772 V(*) | represent the ink, colour, dots, and lines of the Koran;
773 Pre | Sheikh Mahmud's attitude doubtless brought him under the condemnation
774 I(*) | in form, one pair growing downwards and the other upwards. It
775 Pre | is a tradition that~[1. Dr. Johnson's contribution
776 Pre | live to see the end of the drama, but the end was not far
777 Pre | and, with a fine sense of dramatic fitness, had him beheaded
778 XI | The Zealot thirsts for draughts of Kausar's wine,~And Hafiz
779 XXVI(*) | the murdered King lay, and drawing a dagger, she stabbed herself
780 XXXIV | But where the radiance draws the moth's desire~And send
781 XXXIV | XXXIV~* LAST night I dreamed that angels stood without~
782 Pre | resting-place, and when the dreamer awakens there remains to
783 Pre | forced upon a nation of dreamers and metaphysicians. The
784 Pre | even more often. It was drenched with blood by one conqueror,
785 I(*) | Messer Marco brought the dried head and feet of one of
786 II(*) | on to relate, there is a dried-up pond called the Talab i
787 XVIII | grape's delight forswear.~Drift, like the wind across a
788 XXXIV | forth with scorched and drooping wings.~The heart of one
789 VIII | has sped,~And then . . . dropped down in the dusty way.~But
790 I | clash and roar;~How shall my drowning voice strike their ears~
791 XXIV | sang~To sound of pipe and drum, what time the earth~Awaited
792 Pre | creed is founded upon a dualism. A third theory is that
793 Pre | failed to free himself from duality and to reach perfect union
794 II(*) | inscription: "This pond was dug by me, Djemshid, five hundred
795 Pre | denique sit quod vis, simplex dumtaxat et unum."]~and has partly
796 II(*) | y resta chaché mille ans durant; puis un beau jour, s'étant
797 XXXIII | shalt know~That from the dusk until the dawn doth break,~
798 XL(*) | angels accomplished their duties faithfully. But at length
799 XXI(*) | gateway or porch of his dwelling, or outside close to it,
800 I | wine your prayer carpet dye!"~There was never a traveller
801 XXVI | the love of Shirin pined,~Dyeing the desert red with his
802 Pre | with each other in their eagerness to satisfy it; men of all
803 Pre | master, and between jest and earnest place the pointed saying,
804 Pre | as the Sufis are striving earnestly after union with God, they
805 XXV(*) | strives with sufficient earnestness. Just as if a man devotes
806 XXXV(*) | completely in the terrible earthquake which occurred in the spring
807 Pre | more marked than in the East--how conqueror succeeded
808 Pre | was content with dry bread eaten at home, and had no desire
809 II(*) | jamais ne se desséchaient les eaux ni les plantes.' Mais le
810 XXXIV | red cheek,~And his life ebb, sapped at its secret springs.~
811 Pre | question qui n'est pas encore éclaircie. Dans beaucoup de cas les
812 XXIV | extol Love's light without eclipse.~Red wine I worship, and
813 Pre | for them the moments of ecstasy are few. Most Sufis are
814 I | clouded with fears,~And eddying whirlpools clash and roar;~
815 Pre | consequent removal of an edict against the drinking of
816 Pre | Travels of Ibn Batuta," edited by Defrémery and Sanguinetti.]~
817 XIV(*) | Stanza 3.--Rosenzweig, in his edition of the Divan, says that
818 Pre | says his great Turkish editor, Sudi, "to gather together
819 Pre | which city he was probably educated. The poet Jami says that
820 Pre | Her words took instant effect; the inhabitants rose, released
821 Pre | fanatisme musulman. C'est, en effet, comme réaction contre la
822 XXI(*) | with being able to give efficacious charms. . . . Although these
823 Pre | l'esprit arien contre l'effroyante simplicité de l'esprit sémitique,
824 Pre | political event; an exaggerated effusion in praise first of one king,
825 XXXIX(*) | Israelites, accustomed to the Egyptian idolatry, paying a religious
826 XXXIX(*) | Israelites had borrowed from the Egyptians; for Aaron, who commanded
827 XXXI(*) | month of Sha'aban is the eighth month of the Arabic year.
828 Pre | by his pupil Sayyed Kasim el Anwar, and the Divan of
829 Pre | religious ardour of the elder man was changed into a spirit
830 Pre | heavens, the stars, the elements, and the three kingdoms
831 XVIII(*) | Mahommadans confound with Phineas, Elias, and St. George, saying
832 XX | door,~Love's long desired elixir, pour~Upon this wasted heart
833 II(*) | years before the Hejra." "Elle n'a pas été retrouvée, la
834 Pre | contrary to the practice of the eloquent." "That which your Majesty
835 Pre | his heart a more or less elusive conviction that he should
836 XXI(*) | offer, went to Hormuz, and embarked on the ship. But before
837 XXV(*) | select a favourable day for embarking upon any enterprise, certain
838 Pre | Shudja sent a propitiatory embassy to him with gifts--jewels
839 Pre | Platonic doctrines as those embodied in the Phædrus) to the conditions
840 Pre | of Hafiz can be said to embody these doctrines, each reader
841 XXI(*) | garments, and conical caps embroidered in many colours--debauched
842 Pre | was so much overcome by emotion that he was obliged to withdraw.
843 X | How does she wield her empery?~Paints and adorns and scents
844 XXXIX(*) | and an alchemist. Pharaoh employed him as a rival to Moses
845 VIII(*) | le nez? . . .~Autant en emporte le vent!"~Solomon, the type
846 XXXIV(*) | each returned to heaven empty-handed. The fourth time God sent
847 Pre | wholesome philosophy which enabled him to see through the narrow-minded
848 XXXV | Though the earth cover the enamoured head,~And in the dust wisdom
849 XLII | Who has laid waste that enchanted ground?~What has befallen
850 XXVI(*) | true Cross, which had been enclosed in a gold box and buried
851 XXI(*) | outside close to it, and enclosing a small plot of ground,
852 Pre | une question qui n'est pas encore éclaircie. Dans beaucoup
853 XL | fairest robbers thou'lt encounter there,~And they will teach
854 XXV(*) | the Pleiades." The Sultan, encouraged by this fortunate suggestion,
855 Pre | Nadir Shah took this as an encouragement to fresh conquest, and went
856 Pre | that occasion was far from encouraging. He visited Shah Yahya,
857 XLIII | goal to which all men's endeavour has pressed,~And thou the
858 XXI(*) | Stanza 5.--So far I have endeavoured to give the mystical interpretation
859 XXV | creeping Autumn's mirth,~Are ended and forgot when o'er the
860 | ending
861 XXXVII(*)| apples being drunk, and endive, are the proper Bezoar against
862 Pre | is as if his mental eye, endowed with wonderful acuteness
863 Pre | sentence in Arabic: "God is the enduring, and all else passes away."
864 XXV(*) | if a man devotes all his energies to the pursuit of spiritual
865 Pre | Oriental life are such as to enforce rather than to control a
866 II(*) | lui prit son tréne; it s'enfuit dans l'Inde et y resta chaché
867 XXI(*) | for failing to keep his engagement. The Vizir read it to Mahmud
868 Pre | Shakespeare in the minds of many Englishmen. It may be a national prejudice,
869 VIII(*) | minister. Upon his seal was engraved the name of God which is
870 XXVIII | love was writ, which doth enhance~All happiness? or when my
871 Pre | sometimes they translate by an enigma and sometimes they reveal."
872 Pre | couched in a veiled and enigmatic speech),[1]~[1. Listen to
873 Pre | yet the poems of Hafiz enjoy a wide celebrity, whereas
874 XL | as it goes~Lay tribute of enjoyment at thy feet,~That thou may'
875 Pre | the favourite of princes enjoys unmixed popularity, especially
876 XX | my heart's fort there's enmity--~Her eye-brow's bow, the
877 II(*) | that it was formed of an enormous turquoise. It is said that
878 XVII | thine on the page of life to enrol~The faults of others! Or
879 XXXII(*) | the hair of the beloved as entangling and entrapping the unfortunate
880 II(*) | gates of this city, and entering it, saw not one inhabitant,
881 XXV(*) | day for embarking upon any enterprise, certain stars having special
882 XXXII(*) | again, "A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men faster
883 XXXII(*) | beloved as entangling and entrapping the unfortunate lover. Her
884 II(*) | avec une arête de poisson. Entre autres splendeurs, le roi
885 XIV | hundred thorns about his heart entwined.~Like to the parrot crunching
886 Pre | Sometimes we find him enunciating one of the abstruser of
887 XXXV | and learned~To drink the envenomed cup of mortal lot;~Forget
888 XIV | catching at the boughs in envious mood,~A hundred thorns about
889 XXIII | an angel's grace divine~Enwrapped her; pure she was, spotless
890 Pre | history is too small an episode to occupy his thoughts.
891 I(*) | history of this title is an epitome of the history of Persian
892 Pre | providing him with a good equipment for life. Although he never
893 Pre | Baber conquered Shiraz, he erected a monument over the tomb
894 Pre | Perse ce genre de poésie (érotico-mystique) est le fruit d'un extrème
895 Pre | prêtés à certaines poésies érotiques persanes et hindoues n'ont
896 XI | shall miss the road and err,~'Tis but to teach him wisdom
897 Pre | missed the way; but since he errs from ignorance, I pardon
898 Pre | montée sur ce thème, et les esprits étant faussés par une exégèse
899 II(*) | Aussitôt, le Fari Yazdan, c'est-à-dire la gloire royale qui vient
900 XXI(*) | refuses to pay it, will establish themselves in the gateway
901 Pre | by a stratagem, and again established himself as ruler over all
902 XXVI(*) | of Scripture who married Esther. Persian historians ascribe
903 Pre | writes when he says, "I have estimated the influence of Reason
904 Pre | les admirateurs du poète étaient obligés de prendre pour
905 II(*) | the Hejra." "Elle n'a pas été retrouvée, la coupe de Djemshid,"
906 Pre | that he is a part of the eternally existing. Or, again, he
907 XV | once more!~Like to a cruel Ethiopian band,~Sorrow despoiled the
908 II(*) | il se crut Dieu et voulut être adoré. Aussitôt, le Fari
909 II(*) | tant qu'il regna, it n'y eut dans son empire ni mort,
910 Pre | refer to some political event; an exaggerated effusion
911 XXV(*) | yet been justified by the event-but on being asked to perform
912 III | thou that art~A comrade ever-present to my heart,~What whispered
913 XXIX | shall change, and turn not evermore~The universal wheel of Fate
914 XXXV(*) | I suspect from internal evidence that this poem was sent
915 Pre | contention, and the father is evilly disposed towards his son.
916 Pre | is that of the Western. Exactly on what grounds he is appreciated
917 IX(*) | Shiraz. With true Persian exaggeration the poet must needs write
918 Pre | his primary object was to exalt the divine personality,
919 Pre | poems is always a spiritual exaltation, it must be admitted that
920 Pre | empire, how the humble was exalted and the mighty thrown from
921 XXXIV(*) | he means that by their example they showed him what it
922 XXXVII(*)| poison. Murray gives several examples of its use by seventeenth
923 Pre | he seem to have been an exception to the general rule. Moreover,
924 V(*) | declared that thou would'st exchange them against the black mole
925 XL(*) | planet Venus, was wont to exclaim: "God curse Zohra! for it
926 Pre | teaching. When Mahommad exclaims, "There are times when neither
927 Pre | simplicité de l'esprit sémitique, excluant par la rigueur de sa théologie
928 XXI(*) | Feiz Allah this poem as an excuse for failing to keep his
929 XXVI(*) | beguile his weary hours executed the sculptures upon the
930 Pre | esprits étant faussés par une exégèse qui ne voulait voir partout
931 Pre | Cantiques. Pour Hafiz, par exemple, il semble bien que l'explication
932 Pre | who has a mind for such exercises may decipher if he choose.~
933 Pre | hashish, or the wild physical exertions of the dancing dervishes.
934 Pre | the vicissitudes of mortal existence--nowhere more marked than
935 Pre | a part of the eternally existing. Or, again, he declares
936 Pre | currente rota cur urceus exit," and perhaps the advice
937 Pre | perfection shining locks the expansion of his glory; down on the
938 Pre | not commensurate with his expectations. "Long life to thee and
939 XXI(*) | and who offered to pay his expenses to Hormuz, and there place
940 XXXVIII | red mouth, or let my soul expire,~Sighed from those lips
941 Pre | exemple, il semble bien que l'explication allégorique est le plus
942 Pre | Paul, who is scarcely more explicit: "Work out your own salvation;
943 XL(*) | their words, determined to expose them also to temptation,
944 Pre | recite them in his school, expressing a wish that these pearls
945 Pre | good and evil." But such expressions as these are in direct opposition
946 XVII(*) | The allusion is to the expulsion of Adam from the Garden
947 Pre | pardon his fault: my mercy is extended to him, and I allow him
948 Pre | great and his territories extensive. His army exceeds the number
949 Pre | say that the world has no external or tangible existence; all
950 Pre | the chill of death cannot extinguish as long as men shall read
951 XII | love is done--~Where is the extinguished lamp that made night day,~
952 Pre | the Abbaside Khalifs and extinguishing the direct line of the race
953 XXIV | for very shame,~Dare not extol Love's light without eclipse.~
954 XXXIII | join dead year, but thine extortionate rule~Is still the same,
955 XV(*) | child"--a Persian proverb extraordinarily suggestive of the clear,
956 Pre | he loaded his name with extravagant praise. "On Persian soil,"
957 Pre | érotico-mystique) est le fruit d'un extrème raffinement, d'une imagination
958 Pre | asceticism to the absurd extremes enjoined by the Indian mystics,
959 XX | fort there's enmity--~Her eye-brow's bow, the dart that flies,~
960 XIV | glances set~Upon the bow-bent eyebrows of my moon,~He sought a
961 XI(*) | constructed by a certain fabulous King Shedad, who wished
962 XXV | Sorrow's veil,~Has shown its face--ah, cry that all may hear:~
963 XVIII | dyes,~And leave the cell to faces sinister.~Oh Khizr, whose
964 XVI(*) | Stanza 4.--He means either facilis descensus Averni, or, more
965 Pre | terrestre se croisent d'une façon souvent difficile à démêler.
966 IX | And scant of wit, ye who fail to seek~The pleasures that
967 XXI(*) | this poem as an excuse for failing to keep his engagement.
968 Pre | think he was content to "faintly trust the larger hope."~
969 Pre | allégories, on en est venu à faire des poèmes réellement à
970 XXII | At the feet of her who is fairer than all that's fair.~ ~
971 X | Swift to the street of my fairy hie,~Whisper the tale of
972 II(*) | tête solide, et, comme it faisait des immortels, il se crut
973 Pre | Islamisme que le soufisme a fait fortune chez les musulmans
974 XL(*) | accomplished their duties faithfully. But at length a woman called
975 Pre | clutching talons of the falcon of death."~From the protection
976 V(*) | grande ville,~Et qu'il me fallût quitter~L'amour de ma mie,~
977 XXVI(*) | when Khusro sent him the false news of Shirin's death.
978 XVI | shall make light of thy fame--~All things are nought!~ ~
979 Pre | littérature où l'amour divin et Famour terrestre se croisent d'
980 Pre | hypocrisie imposée par le fanatisme musulman. C'est, en effet,
981 XL | maiden thoughts and jewelled fancies decked,~And in Time's gallery
982 XXX(*) | assembled there, sitting with fans in their hands on account
983 Pre | plus souvent un fruit de la fantaisie des commentateurs, ou des
984 XXX(*) | possesses pleasant gardens, far-reaching streams, excellent markets,
985 XXXVI | bid thee ask no more~How fares my life? to play the enemy~
986 II(*) | être adoré. Aussitôt, le Fari Yazdan, c'est-à-dire la
987 VIII(*) | was with this seal that he fastened up the bottles in which
988 XXXII(*) | entrap the hearts of men faster than gnats in cobwebs."~
989 XVII | page of life to enrol~The faults of others! Or less or more~
990 Pre | thème, et les esprits étant faussés par une exégèse qui ne voulait
991 Pre | musulmans non arabes. Il y faut voir une révolte de l'esprit
992 Pre | orthodoxie de leur auteur favori. Puis l'magination étant
993 Pre | again he heard him give a favourablc answer to the same prayers.
994 XXV(*) | consulted in order to select a favourable day for embarking upon any
995 XXX | thou art of those~For ever fearing lest absence be near;~For
996 XXIV | her radiant brow~Adorns my feast-until Love's secret slips~From
997 VIII | remains behind.~Shoot not thy feathered arrow astray!~A bow-shot'
998 Pre | and so strong was popular feeling against him that, on his
999 XXX | have rested my head at her feet--~When stillness unbroken
1000 XX | from Fate~Some passport to felicity,~Some written surety bring
1001 V(*) | translator seems to have felt that his version presented
1002 Pre | Christian? "One night," says Ferideddin Attar in a beautiful allegory, "
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