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1003 Pre | the Hejira was a time of fermentation and of the rise of sects.
1004 XI | experience in vain.~Thy fettered life hangs on a single thread--~
1005 XXVI | Perhaps the tulip knows the fickleness~Of Fortune's smile, for
1006 Pre | under which Hafiz lived. Fifty years before the birth of
1007 XXXIV(*) | will have it to have been a fig-tree, and others a vine."~There
1008 VIII(*) | Dolles,~Les sires et les fils aînés?~Où autant de leurs
1009 Pre | Sufis had no difficulty in finding in the Koran texts in support
1010 Pre | painful circumstances he finds his master's house a sure
1011 XXV | sets her hand and writes: Finis.~Oh, linger not, nor trust
1012 Pre | little annoyed; he bade Hafiz finish the poem, and at the same
1013 XXVI(*) | before the Christian era. Firdusi says he reigned seven hundred
1014 XVI | too, have burnt in the fires of grief,~Shall I cry aloud
1015 Pre | stands with its feet planted firmly upon the earth: man and
1016 Pre | boundless surface." Some fish swimming in the shallow
1017 Pre | visit him and his pearl fisheries in the Persian Gulf. He
1018 Pre | search, they fell into a fisherman's net, and as soon as they
1019 VIII(*) | those bottles which those fishermen in the "Arabian Nights"
1020 Pre | a fine sense of dramatic fitness, had him beheaded in an
1021 X(*) | the oars must be even more fitting to the melody than that
1022 Pre | another, but for all time. Fitz-Gerald knew it when he declared
1023 Pre | The gospels," he says, "fix quite correctly as the highest
1024 XXV | near~With long-desired and flaming coronet,~The cruel stinging
1025 XI | choose between,~Thou art but flattering thy soul with choice!~Who
1026 XLII | they labour in vain,~The fleet-footed wind and the quickening
1027 XVI(*) | a person mounted on the fleetest horse would not be able
1028 VI | away,~So sweetly, swiftly, fleets our little day--~Swift,
1029 XVII | of earth's treasury!~The flickering shade of the willow-tree,~
1030 Pre | inrush of conquerors, and the flight of the defeated.~[1. For
1031 XXXIV | through the green glades they flit.~A hundred dreams of Fancy'
1032 XXXV(*) | Zindeh Rud was a river that flowed past Isfahan. There are
1033 XXIII | eternal dwelling-place.~The flower-strewn river lip and meadows fair,~
1034 VI | VI~A FLOWER-TINTED cheek, the flowery close~
1035 VI | seat thee on the sward;~It floweth past-so flows thy life away,~
1036 XXV | sickness from my breast have flown,~Order and health thy wisdom
1037 VIII | VIII~* THF rose has flushed red, the bud has burst,~
1038 XXVII | vanished, and the timid foal,~Good Fortune, slipped the
1039 XIX | horde~To me seemed kind--my foeman spared me not~Though one
1040 XLIII | voice shall ring through the folds of my winding-sheet,~And
1041 Pre | heresy of Hallaj, "though fools whom God hath not uplifted
1042 XXXIX(*) | took some dust from the footsteps of the horse of the angel
1043 XXX | desolate,~A hundred times, "God forbid!" I pray;~Its limpid stream
1044 Pre | famine, and how unsparing the forces of nature, he turned to
1045 Pre | is a short poem full of foreboding which is said to have been
1046 Pre | landscape, though the immediate foreground may not be so distinct.
1047 VII | Fate~Upon his own white forehead has writ!~And when the spirit
1048 Pre | choose.~Hafiz is rather the forerunner than the founder of this
1049 Pre | that had sheltered him, he foresaw the troubles that were coming
1050 Pre | vain memory of the other. I foresee much disturbance in Shiraz;
1051 XVI | WHAT is wrought in the forge of the living and life--~
1052 Pre | destined to inhabit. We can forgive him for leaving to us so
1053 | formerly
1054 Pre | sons were building up a formidable power. In 1352, determined
1055 Pre | in it, when we find him formulating ideas as profound as the
1056 XIII | eyes was dear.~Sleep has forsaken me, and from the birth~Of
1057 XVIII | e'en the grape's delight forswear.~Drift, like the wind across
1058 VII | assault of the world; when thy fortress falls,~The relentless victor
1059 Pre | his vivid lines; and the fortunes of Florence, of one little
1060 Pre | colour of heaven. Hafiz falls foul of this rival school in
1061 XXVI | love repressed~Are joys foundationless--then come whate'er~May come,
1062 Pre | nothing but an ecstatic frame of mind, in which the spirit
1063 XXXVII(*)| bezoar. "The stone," says Frampton, in his "Joyful News," is
1064 VIII(*) | man.~Stanza 4.--Compare François Villon's rough and powerful
1065 Pre | have been somewhat of a free-lance among the learned men of
1066 Pre | Attar, partly to a natural freedom of spirit, Hafiz seems to
1067 Pre | tempered his orthodoxy with the freer doctrines he had derived
1068 II(*) | of the village told the French traveller that a knife had
1069 Pre | changed into a spirit of frenzied dissipation in the younger.
1070 V(*) | dancing boys and girls who frequent Baghdad, and are notoriously
1071 XXIII | days which perished with my friend--~Ah, what is left of life,
1072 XXI(*) | straits he was rescued by two friendly merchants, who were also
1073 II(*) | n'y avait ni chaleur, ni froideur, et jamais ne se desséchaient
1074 II(*) | me mettant le doigt au front, me dit: Djam-i-Djemshid,
1075 Pre | mansions where our souls, fugitives from the actual, may dream
1076 Pre | has been to a great extent fulfilled. A very ancient cypress,
1077 Pre | veil from this secret: why fulfillest thou the prayers of one
1078 IX | minstrel, sing:~The world fulfilleth my heart's desire!~Reflected
1079 XIX | note.~Welcome, oh rose, and full-blown eglantine!~The violets their
1080 Pre | other Western allegory to a full-fledged mysticism worthy of an Oriental
1081 Pre | contemplative life, but combined the functions of a teacher with those
1082 XXXIX(*) | them all together into a furnace, to melt them down into
1083 XXV(*) | interpretation, and might furnish indications to events which
1084 V(*) | musical accomplishments, and furnished minstrels and dancing girls
1085 II(*) | hors de sa retraite, il fut livré au serpent, qui le
1086 XXIV | Awaited the white dawn, and gaily rang~Upon mine ear those
1087 XXI | sea~Lightened by hope of gain--hope flew too fast~A hundred
1088 Pre | when Fortune is thy foe,~'Gainst Heaven's wheel, Wrestler,
1089 XL | fancies decked,~And in Time's gallery I yet may meet~Some picture
1090 XVI(*) | horse would not be able to gallop from one end of its shade
1091 XLII | leapt forth to renew the game--~What has befallen the horsemen
1092 XIV | Night and Day, Death won the game-forlorn~And careless now, Hafiz
1093 X(*) | that the boatmen on the Ganges sing it as they row, and
1094 VIII | second door of the tavern gapes wide,~The low and. the mighty
1095 XII | From monkish cell and lying garb released,~Oh heart of mine,~
1096 XXXIV | hundred dreams of Fancy's garnered store~Assail me--Father
1097 Pre | be wise."~He never again gathered the honey of the roads of
1098 XXXIX | jasmine's shamèd cheek the dew~Gathers like sweat, she is so fair
1099 Pre | through those eyes which had gazed victorious upon the world,
1100 XXI(*) | backs, and the skins of gazelles on their shoulders--barefooted,
1101 Pre | so high that the stars of Gemini are but as his girdle."
1102 Pre | of such and such a royal general-just what any self-respecting
1103 XXI(*) | are rank impostors, and generally arrant scoundrels, they
1104 XVIII(*) | for she preferred a man of genius to the son of a king. She
1105 VIII(*) | aînés?~Où autant de leurs gens privés,~Hérauts, trompettes,
1106 XXVI | Djemshid, their dust is here,~"Gently upon me set thy lips!" they
1107 XXV(*) | relates that he consulted a geomancer, who, by means of dice,
1108 XXV(*) | Concerning astrology and geomancy Mr. Browne questioned a
1109 XVIII(*) | Phineas, Elias, and St. George, saying that his soul passed
1110 XXXVII(*)| valued. The chamois yielded German bezoar. "The stone," says
1111 Pre | mediocre poetaster, could get no further than the first
1112 Pre | returned to his old head." "Gieb meine Jugend mir zurück!"
1113 Pre | propitiatory embassy to him with gifts--jewels and silks, horses,
1114 Pre | the Khalif of Baghdad in gig, and his ashes were thrown
1115 V(*) | Stanza 2.--The Luli or gipsies, as they were contemptuously
1116 XVIII(*) | in love with a beautiful girl of Shiraz called Shakh-i-Nahat,
1117 VII | wine! bring me wine, the giver of mirth!~To-day the beggar
1118 XXX | Like the fount of Khizr giveth life for aye.~'Twixt Jafrabad
1119 XXXIV | praise through the green glades they flit.~A hundred dreams
1120 VII(*) | summer; and from the blinding glare of a Persian sun into a
1121 Pre | dawn I came upon one or two glasses of wine-as sweet as the
1122 XVIII | From out the bondage of thy gleaming hair!~Safe only those, safe,
1123 II(*) | d'autres, que c'était un globe terrestre mis au courant,
1124 II(*) | Yazdan, c'est-à-dire la gloire royale qui vient de Dieu,
1125 XIII | mine ear~To hearken to the glories of the earth;~Only thy beauty
1126 XXVIII | Hast thou forgotten how the glorious~Swift nights flew past,
1127 IX | goblet's ring~I see the glow of my Love's red cheek,~
1128 XXXII(*) | hearts of men faster than gnats in cobwebs."~
1129 X | Flush with red wine the goblets pale,~Flush our pale cheeks
1130 XL(*) | her husband, worship the gods she worshipped, and drink
1131 XXXIV(*) | said unto the angels, I am going to place a substitute on
1132 XXVI(*) | was sent to the King of Golconda.~
1133 XXXIV | the locks of Speech, his goodly bride,~Not one, like Hafiz,
1134 Pre | unto thee. The fame of thy goodness has conquered the four quarters
1135 Pre | cannot have increased the goodwill of either interlocutor towards
1136 Pre | Asiatique for 1858; Sir Gore Ouseley and Daulat Shah,
1137 Pre | from it in the Veda. "The gospels," he says, "fix quite correctly
1138 Pre | quiétisme, d'un certain goût du mystére, et aussi, en
1139 Pre | certain Mahmud Shah Inju was governing the province of Fars, of
1140 Pre | Hussein ibn Juban to the governorship of Fars, a lucrative and
1141 XVII | me the hope of a former grace--~Till the curtain is lifted
1142 VI | and grows~The shadow of a graceful cypress-tree.~I am no lover
1143 XXV | all my misery,~My lady's gracious face can comfort me,~And
1144 I(*) | caravanserai. But in this sense it gradually regained the honourable
1145 II(*) | avait jadis en Perse un grand roi nommé Djem ou Djemshid.
1146 XIV(*) | so securing for himself grandchildren who would have been a consolation
1147 XVI(*) | laden with pomegranates, grapes, dates, and other fruits
1148 Pre | appointed Destiny, and however grateful may be the shade of the
1149 XIV | sought a lodging in the grave-too soon!~I had not castled,
1150 XXV | numbered Hafiz' name among~The great-unnumbered were his tears, unsung;~
1151 Pre | found that one of their greatest difficulties lay in reconciling
1152 XXI(*) | Persians of all classes, who greatly fear, and do not dare to
1153 VIII(*) | Solomon, the type of human greatness, is the King whose mastery
1154 XIX(*) | of the Persian word for greed, and there is consequently,
1155 XIX | brings me where joy is.~The greedy glances of a Tartar horde~
1156 III | morn and eve convoys of greeting fair~I send to thee.~Unto
1157 III | thine car my wind-blown greetings sound,~North winds and east
1158 VIII(*) | Où sont de Vienne et de Grenobles~Le Dauphin, les preux, les
1159 V | warnings of one grown wise--and grey!~The song is sung and the
1160 Pre | the debt he owed him. "My Grey-Beard," he sings, "who scatters
1161 Pre | not without a sigh the greyhaired man relinquished it. "Ah,
1162 XIX | bitter cry!~Lift up your grief-bowed heads, all ye that weep,~
1163 II | That I am born to fade grieves not my heart~But never was
1164 Pre | blinded. A few years later the grim life beat itself out against
1165 XXXVII | skull's pale empty cup~A grimmer Cup-bearer the dust shall
1166 Pre | believe that mysticism, grounded on the doctrine that all
1167 XVIII(*) | Khizr as one of his special guardians. About four Persian miles
1168 V(*) | J'aime mieux ma mie, ô gué,~J'aime mieux ma mie!"~In
1169 Pre | perhaps, owing to the wise guidance of Sheikh Mahmud Attar,
1170 XVIII(*) | immortal. It is said that he guided Alexander to the same fountain,
1171 Pre | victors suffered imprisonment; guiltless, the mightiest head was
1172 XXXIX(*) | thus: "Sàki hadis-i-sarvo gul o làleh miravad"--Cup-bearer,
1173 Pre | fisheries in the Persian Gulf. He compares this Sultan
1174 Pre | writes the author of the Gulsheni-Raz (the allusion is to the
1175 XXXI(*) | even smoke until the sunset gun puts an end to the day's
1176 XXVI(*) | grandson of Darius, the Persian Gushtasp. He is supposed to have
1177 Pre | same position that Madame Guyon and the Jansenists occupied
1178 XXXIX(*) | The line ran thus: "Sàki hadis-i-sarvo gul o làleh miravad"--Cup-bearer,
1179 Pre | recourse to these Sortes Hafizianæ. It is related that Nadir
1180 I | sleeps~In the night of her hair-yet no fragrance stays~The tears
1181 XXI(*) | manner of vice. Others were half-naked savages, with hair hanging
1182 XXXIV | slept.~Oh dwellers in the halls of Chastity!~You brought
1183 VIII | pass,~None may reach the halting-station of mirth~God's treaty: Am
1184 IX(*) | latter's garden, a servant handed to him a goblet of wine,
1185 Pre | the road of life." But he handles Sufiism in a broad and noble
1186 XXI(*) | half-naked savages, with hair hanging down their backs, and the
1187 Pre | which, on being taken at haphazard, opened upon the following
1188 XIX(*) | capital. The same thing happened in North Africa. The ruins
1189 XXV(*) | when one of his standards happening to strike against a cluster (
1190 XL | heart thy heart is laid:~Oh Happy-starred! let not thine hours fleet~
1191 XXIV | rang~Upon mine ear those harbingers of mirth:~"If the True Faith
1192 XXIX(*) | their goal, and forget the hardships of the journey and the barrenness
1193 Pre | second best, did little harm to a friendship which was
1194 III(*) | by one of the officers of Harun al Rashid, saw in it the
1195 Pre | consciousness, such as opium, or hashish, or the wild physical exertions
1196 XII | heart, fleeing in~Such mad haste--where?~To steadfastness
1197 Pre | or in plain. Therefore he hastened back to the presence of
1198 XXXVII(*)| good against Venome" and Hawkins, in his "Voyage to the South
1199 XXI | and constant dread~It is a head-dress much desired--and yet~Art
1200 XXXIII | Has waited ever, till thou heal its pain.~If seekers after
1201 XIX | heads, all ye that weep,~The Healer brings joy's wine-cup--oh,
1202 XXV | breast have flown,~Order and health thy wisdom marshals there.~
1203 II(*) | it to his subjects as a health-giving beverage. He, too, was the
1204 XXI | goblet foaming up!~Mine enemy heaped scorn on me and said~"Forth
1205 XIII | time I lent mine ear~To hearken to the glories of the earth;~
1206 XXXII | springs up in every joyless heart--~Let not the nightingale
1207 X | afresh and new and new!~Heart-gladdening wine thy lips imbrue,~Fresh
1208 Pre | fire still burns in my dead heart-yea, it has set my very winding-sheet
1209 XXXVI | treasure-house is bare, his hearth-stone cold.~Ask to what goal the
1210 XIII | lyre,~And still my breast heaves with last night's desire,~
1211 XXI(*) | with vermin. They carried heavy iron maces, and seemed more
1212 Pre | The second century of the Hejira was a time of fermentation
1213 XXXIII | my heart still waiteth helplessly,~Has waited ever, till thou
1214 XXIV | mine eyes unto my garment's hem~A river flows; perchance
1215 V(*) | ma mie,~Je dirais au roi Henri:~Reprenez votre Paris,~J'
1216 XXIV | I worship, and I worship her--~Speak not to me of anything
1217 VIII(*) | autant de leurs gens privés,~Hérauts, trompettes, poursuivants?~
1218 XXXVII | to snakes that from the herbage start,~Thy curling locks
1219 XVIII(*) | earth was covered with green herbs.~Hafiz looked upon the prophet
1220 XXIV(*) | own opinion, but that of a heretical Christian. He came off with
1221 I(*) | policy to steal from the heretics whatsoever they possessed
1222 XIII | such cheer!~My heart, sad hermit, stains the cloister floor~
1223 XXVI(*) | set upon the throne by the hero Rustum, son of Zal. It was
1224 | hers
1225 XXI(*) | for is paid them, hooting hideously day and night, calling upon
1226 XXXVI | thee Truth's pure gold,~He hides no riches 'neath his lying
1227 X | to the street of my fairy hie,~Whisper the tale of Hafiz
1228 XXXVI | goal the wandering dervish hies,~They knew not his desire
1229 V(*) | should wish to gather the higher wisdom from it, I may mention
1230 XXX(*) | Jaftabad and Mosalla runs the highroad to Isfahan, traversing,
1231 XIII | s voice, as from a rocky hill~Reverberates the softly
1232 XXVI(*) | growing upon a barren Persian hillside. On the top of a bleak pass
1233 XXXI | tavern calls to me!~Would'st hinder us? The preacher's homily~
1234 Pre | poésies érotiques persanes et hindoues n'ont pas plus de réalité
1235 Pre | objected that there is no historic proof of relations between
1236 XXI(*) | it which turns it into a historical rather than a theological
1237 XVI | All things are nought! Ho! fill me the bowl,~For nought
1238 XXI | where my Lady dwells, thou holdest me~Enchained; else Fars
1239 Pre | Hafiz was overcome with homesickness when he was absent from
1240 XXXI | hinder us? The preacher's homily~Is long, but life will soon
1241 XLIII | welcome thee!~My soul, like a homing bird, yearning for Paradise,~
1242 II(*) | Djemshid c'est le cœur de l'homme de science."--Darmsteter, "
1243 Pre | religious teachers who have honestly tried to construct a working
1244 XVI | bearing a stained or an honoured name,~The lovers of wine
1245 III(*) | Solomon sent the lapwing or hoopoe as his messenger to Bilkis,
1246 XXI(*) | they ask for is paid them, hooting hideously day and night,
1247 XIX | drunkenness is this that brings me hope--~Who was the Cup-bearer,
1248 Pre | and perhaps the advice of Horace may be the better of the
1249 XIX | greedy glances of a Tartar horde~To me seemed kind--my foeman
1250 Pre | Tamberlain and his Tartar hordes had advanced into Northern
1251 XXI(*) | or blowing on a buffalo's horn so as to disturb the whole
1252 I(*) | very coarse kind, but no horns. It has four tusks, two
1253 Pre | condemned to death with horrible tortures by the Khalif of
1254 II(*) | beau jour, s'étant aventuré hors de sa retraite, il fut livré
1255 Pre | gifts--jewels and silks, horses, a scarlet daïs, a royal
1256 XXI(*) | them admission into their houses, and even into the women'
1257 X | our pale cheeks to drunken hue,~Fresh and afresh and new
1258 Pre | jewels of the art of many hues, adorn her with the sandal-wood
1259 Pre | joy, some have a nobler humanity and cry out across the ages
1260 III(*) | towards me, but come unto me humbled. And he strewed musk upon
1261 II(*) | that it comes not but by humiliation and sorrow; he questions
1262 XLII | What can have silenced the hundred-voiced?~What has befallen the nightingale?~
1263 V | listening Heavens above thee hung~Shall loose o'er thy verse
1264 Pre | continues (and it is of the hunger and thirst after wisdom
1265 XXXII | banishment,~He that has hungered for his lady's face~Shall,
1266 XXXV | drove her forth like to a hunted beast!~Hafiz, thou and thy
1267 XXVII | Separation into it and fled.~The hunter she, and I the helpless
1268 VII | earth;~With a love like a huri I'ld take mine ease,~And
1269 Pre | serves me with a summons and hurries me back into my prison."
1270 XLII | nightingale?~Heaven's music is hushed, and the planets roll~In
1271 II | garden slept,~Stirring the hyacinth's purple tresses curled,~
1272 Pre | en Perse du moins, de I'hypocrisie imposée par le fanatisme
1273 VI | cypress-tree.~I am no lover of hypocrisy;~Of all the treasures that
1274 Pre | whence cometh my Friend." The idealism of the Sufis led them to
1275 Pre | Sufiism is the union, the identification of God and man. It is a
1276 XXI(*) | one colour is the Persian idiom for sincerity. He means
1277 XL(*) | drink wine. Murderers and idolaters the angels could not agree
1278 XXXIX(*) | accustomed to the Egyptian idolatry, paying a religious worship
1279 XXI(*) | their influence over the ignorant and superstitious Persians
1280 Pre | If we should attempt to ignore it, many of the odes would
1281 Pre | incentives to human action; he ignored neither the one nor the
1282 XXXIX(*) | 1367, fell sick. During his illness he was nursed by three faithful
1283 Pre | me in this city which is illumined by her presence; already
1284 Pre | also." In a parable, Jami illustrates the universal presence of
1285 Pre | 1. Numberless beautiful images are used to describe the
1286 Pre | theory," we demand. "Build us imaginary mansions where our souls,
1287 X | Heart-gladdening wine thy lips imbrue,~Fresh and afresh and new
1288 Pre | to them: "Why do you not imitate Omar? For when one came
1289 Pre | wider landscape, though the immediate foreground may not be so
1290 I(*) | powerful perfume. There is an immense number of these beasts in
1291 XVIII(*) | him a cup of the water of immortality.~
1292 II(*) | et, comme it faisait des immortels, il se crut Dieu et voulut
1293 XIII | flame,~Transpiercing Death's impenetrable door.~What instrument through
1294 Pre | which it has retained an imperfect recollection, so the soul
1295 Pre | philosophers than by Plato; it implies, according to them, the
1296 XXV(*) | regarded this to be of evil import, and was about to abandon
1297 Pre | religion were the two most important incentives to human action;
1298 Pre | supposed that Sufiism was imported from India after the time
1299 XXI(*) | sanctity, by which they impose upon the people, high and
1300 Pre | that the divine wisdom had imposed upon them. There is neither
1301 Pre | du moins, de I'hypocrisie imposée par le fanatisme musulman.
1302 Pre | time); "he is fair of face, imposing of presence, and his conduct
1303 XXI(*) | these dervishes are rank impostors, and generally arrant scoundrels,
1304 Pre | repaid his confidence by imprisoning and blinding him. It must
1305 Pre | for the second, it seems improbable that Sufiism, of which the
1306 XXI(*) | and Ali, can enter with impunity. Sometimes they will demand
1307 Pre | it is probable that he is imputing to the son-in-law of the
1308 Pre | accession-perhaps he had accompanic imur s retreating army. "The
1309 Pre | were the two most important incentives to human action; he ignored
1310 I(*) | and two above, about three inches long, and slender in form,
1311 IX(*) | crescent moon overhead. The incident suggested this verse to
1312 Pre | only heard, the smallest incidents of his time, the sum of
1313 Pre | and little calculated to incline the heart of his judge towards
1314 XXV | linger not, nor trust the inconstant days~That promised: Where
1315 Pre | interview which cannot have increased the goodwill of either interlocutor
1316 V(*) | reason of that beauty daily increasing that Joseph (the absolute
1317 Pre | court poet would feel it incumbent upon himself to write and
1318 XXXIX | sugar-loving birds of distant Ind,~Except a Persian sweetmeat
1319 V(*) | them came to perform their indecent dances before us, as they
1320 XXI | hundred pearls were poor indemnity,~Not worth the blast.~The
1321 Pre | for all practical purposes independent, and the different provinces
1322 Pre | word signifying wool, and indicates that they were accustomed
1323 Pre | if he did not succeed in indicating a satisfactory way out of
1324 XXV(*) | interpretation, and might furnish indications to events which were yet
1325 Pre | will feel that the apparent indifference of Hafiz lends to his philosophy
1326 XXI(*) | cocoa-nut shell, which is indispensable to the dervish, and serves
1327 Pre | him for leaving to us so indistinct a representation of his
1328 Pre | black mole is the point of indivisible unity. The catalogue might
1329 Pre | him, was very anxious to induce Hafiz to visit his court;
1330 Pre | surrounds with a nimbus of inert sentiment all conceptions
1331 Pre | accuse him of mixing up inextricably wine and love and Sufi teaching,
1332 Pre | profoundly sceptical as to the infallibility of any creed, judging men
1333 XXIX | Koran and recite~Litanies infinite, and weep no more!~ ~
1334 V(*) | Divan. It is only right to inform the reader that the original
1335 XXV(*) | means of dice, gave him much information as to his future none of
1336 XVIII(*) | to seek when he had been informed by God that Al Khizr was
1337 Pre | union of God and man, the infusion of the Divinity in the imams,
1338 Pre | later age were destined to inhabit. We can forgive him for
1339 II(*) | entering it, saw not one inhabitant, at which being terrified,
1340 V(*) | Keredj, of Indian origin, who inhabited the country between Shiraz
1341 XVIII | Wine-drunk, love-drunk, we inherit Paradise,~His mercy is for
1342 Pre | How he first revealed his inimitable gift of song is not known.
1343 Pre | Sufi code with which the initiated are acquainted. "The nightingale,
1344 Pre | everything in himself, will not injure himself by himself. This
1345 XXIV(*) | means of doing the poet an injury, nor was it long before
1346 V(*) | stand in need, represent the ink, colour, dots, and lines
1347 XXI(*) | neighbourhood. The owner and inmates of the house are helpless.
1348 Pre | To some at least of the innumerable difficulties which assail
1349 Pre | a beleaguered town, the inrush of conquerors, and the flight
1350 Pre | works. "They shall bring insanity," he declared, "upon all
1351 II(*) | discovered there bearing this inscription: "This pond was dug by me,
1352 XXIV(*) | charge against himself, he inserted another couplet into the
1353 I(*) | attached to it; and the blood inside this imposthume is the musk
1354 Pre | the Arab conquerors, but insinuated itself into the stern and
1355 Pre | double sens" are careful to insist upon the mighty secrets
1356 III(*) | which he said :Behave not insolently towards me, but come unto
1357 Pre | on the contrary, modern instances have no value; contemporary
1358 Pre | three boys. Her words took instant effect; the inhabitants
1359 | instead
1360 Pre | imagery. Some of them are instinct with the very spirit of
1361 Pre | too often "amphora coepit institui, currente rota cur urceus
1362 V(*) | Turkestan there was formerly an institution called the Feast of Plunder.
1363 Pre | Socrates: "He who has been instructed thus far in the things of
1364 XIII | impenetrable door.~What instrument through last night's silence
1365 Pre | the town, and contemplated insuring himself of a third quarter
1366 Pre | him there is nothing. The intelligences and the souls of men, the
1367 V(*) | little to its value or to its intelligibility; but in case any one should
1368 Pre | seems that Fortune did not intend kings to be wise."~He never
1369 XVII | that misconstrue my words' intent,~I lie on the bricks of
1370 XL(*) | refused admittance. On the intercession of a very pious man, however,
1371 Pre | conception of the union and interdependence of all things divine and
1372 Pre | lose a good half of their interest. Take, for instance, such
1373 Pre | Hafiz and Dante, it is interesting to note, were almost contemporaries.
1374 Pre | increased the goodwill of either interlocutor towards the other. Shah
1375 Pre | him as a guide. It is the interminable, the hopeless mysticism,
1376 XXXV(*) | year 1853. I suspect from internal evidence that this poem
1377 Pre | the Sufi poets, say their interpreters, is nothing but an ecstatic
1378 Pre | his dreams must have been interrupted often enough by the nip
1379 I(*) | Zoroaster. When the Mahommadans invaded Persia, and the preachers
1380 Pre | grandson of the great Tartar invader Chinghis Khan, had conquered
1381 XIX(*) | a larger population. The invaders completely destroyed the
1382 Pre | Ahmed was driven out by the invading army of Timur. But during
1383 XIX(*) | irrigated before the Tartar invasion, and supported a larger
1384 II(*) | divine justice, though it be invisible, unless very rarely, when
1385 Pre | only did he comply with the invitations of foreign kings, and his
1386 Pre | thou the prayers of one who invokes an idol in a monastery?'
1387 Pre | the angel, 'some man is invoking God. I know not who he is;
1388 XXIX | universal wheel of Fate in ire.~Oh Pilgr'm nearing Mecca'
1389 XXVI(*) | some Mary, and by others Irene. The Greeks describe her
1390 XIX(*) | was far more thoroughly irrigated before the Tartar invasion,
1391 XIX(*) | reservoirs and destroying the irrigating system, completely changing
1392 Pre | contre la sécheresse de l'Islamisme que le soufisme a fait fortune
1393 XXXIV(*) | archangels, Gabriel, Michael, and Israfil, were each in turn ordered
1394 III(*) | God himself reflected in it--which is only another way
1395 Pre | Dante does not possess. The Italian is bound down within the
1396 Pre | the division between Shi'ite and Sunni sprang into being,
1397 IV | IV~* SLEEP on thine eyes, bright
1398 IX | IX~* OH Cup-bearer, set my
1399 II(*) | legendary Paradise.~"Il y avait jadis en Perse un grand roi nommé
1400 XXX(*) | mosque of Mosalla. Between Jaftabad and Mosalla runs the highroad
1401 II(*) | chaleur, ni froideur, et jamais ne se desséchaient les eaux
1402 XXXIV | ears,~For two-and-seventy jangling creeds he hears,~And loud-voiced
1403 Pre | that Madame Guyon and the Jansenists occupied in the West, and
1404 XIX | scented gladness fling,~Jasmin breathes purity-art sorrowing~
1405 XXXIX | meadows through,~Upon the jasmine's shamèd cheek the dew~Gathers
1406 Pre | he nursed a professional jealousy of Hafiz, being himself
1407 XXVI(*) | Khusro Parwiz who conquered Jerusalem, and carried off, say the
1408 XXXI | set before~The pure white jessamine a brimming cup,~And wind
1409 I | my misery o'er~When each jesting mouth has rehearsed my shame!~
1410 Pre | religion of Mahommadan, Jew, and Christian? "One night,"
1411 VII(*) | monastery from the lamp of a Jewish synagogue. One of the most
1412 XXXIX(*) | certain tribe among the Jews called the Samaritans, whence
1413 VIII(*) | men and before which the Jinn and the Angels must bow
1414 VIII(*) | which he imprisoned the Jinn---those bottles which those
1415 IX(*) | of saying, "Awake, my St. John!"~The mystical interpretation
1416 Pre | a tradition that~[1. Dr. Johnson's contribution to this vexed
1417 XXXIII | plunder me no more!~Years join dead year, but thine extortionate
1418 XXVIII | filled the morn with drunken jollity!~Hast thou forgotten when
1419 XXIII | held her, lone and far~She joumeyeth that lay upon my breast.~
1420 II(*) | ans durant; puis un beau jour, s'étant aventuré hors de
1421 Pre | Yahya, to whose court he had journeyed, had sent him empty away.~
1422 XXI(*) | torn and patched with long journeying-in the wrong road.~Stanza 5.--
1423 Pre | activity; for all his visionary journeys through heaven and hell,
1424 II(*) | marchaient dans la taille de jouvenceaux: de quinze ans; it n'y avait
1425 XXXVII(*)| says Frampton, in his "Joyful News," is called the Bezaar,
1426 XXXII | hope springs up in every joyless heart--~Let not the nightingale
1427 Pre | appointed Sheikh Hussein ibn Juban to the governorship of Fars,
1428 XXXI | chalice flow;~Wine-red, the judas-tree shall set before~The pure
1429 XL(*) | go down to the earth as judges over man, and he taught
1430 Pre | infallibility of any creed, judging men not by the practice,
1431 Pre | his old head." "Gieb meine Jugend mir zurück!" Other poets
1432 XXXVII(*)| 1607), remarks that "the juice of apples being drunk, and
1433 II(*) | vous dire à quelle date au juste, mais 'tant qu'il regna,
1434 Pre | and were obliged to find a justification for their attitude, and
1435 XIX(*) | Persian runs man dervish-i-yek kaba "--i.e. I, a poor man of
1436 XXVI(*) | hundred and twelve years. Kaikaus, mentioned in the next stanza,
1437 XXVI(*) | Kayanian dynasty; Kai may be Kaikhusro, the third king of the same
1438 Pre | death by his pupil Sayyed Kasim el Anwar, and the Divan
1439 XXVI | What man can tell where Kaus and Kai have gone?~Who knows
1440 Pre | and hell, Dante lived as keenly as any of his contemporaries.
1441 XII | friend, ask not~If Hafiz keep--~Patience and steadfastness
1442 I(*) | which it had fallen; for the keepers of such places of resort
1443 XVIII(*) | poet, and insisted upon keeping his fortieth vigil. That
1444 XIII | weary heart eternal silence keeps--~I know not who has slipped
1445 V(*) | a people of the tribe of Keredj, of Indian origin, who inhabited
1446 III(*) | of Jafar ibn Yahya.' (The kerit of Baghdad was worth a twentieth
1447 III(*) | beneath this written: 'Ten kerits, the price of naphtha and
1448 Pre | to the same source."~The keynote of Sufiism is the union,
1449 Pre | design, and delivered up the keys of his gate to Shah Shudja,
1450 Pre | letters of the Persian words Khak-i-Mosalla, dust of Mosalla, give the
1451 Pre | offender.~There is another Khawameddin who is frequently mentioned,
1452 XXX(*) | Stanza 1.--Khizr--see Note to the third stanza
1453 XXXIV(*) | gaze upon it, and Eblis, kicking it with his foot, found
1454 Pre | mystery."-"Translation of the Kilidi Afghani," by T. C. Plowden.~
1455 Pre | would draw his sword and kill the offenders as they stood,
1456 Pre | his father whether he had killed 1000 men with his own hand. "
1457 XXVI(*) | overcame Afrasiab's arrny, killing his own son in the battle "
1458 XIX | Tartar horde~To me seemed kind--my foeman spared me not~
1459 Pre | world, was the light he had kindled (i.e. Mahommad's son, Shah
1460 XI | shall be seen~To boast their kinship with a single voice;~There
1461 VI | And, Hafiz, at the door of Kismet lies~No just complaint-a
1462 XXVII | but threw me a Farewell,~Kissing my threshold, turned, and
1463 VII | relentless victor shall knead from thy dust~The bricks
1464 XIV(*) | dust and water which God kneaded into the body of Adam, and
1465 XIV | the turquoise firmament~Kneadeth the bricks for joy's abode;
1466 Pre | Shah Shudja's death the knell of the house of Muzaffar
1467 II(*) | French traveller that a knife had been discovered there
1468 XXXIV(*) | wisdom, but where they must knock in vain, and as moulding
1469 XLII | God's dread task~No man knoweth, in youth or prime~Or in
1470 XXVI | kings speak through the clay~Kobad, Bahman, Djemshid, their
1471 III(*) | story is told thus by Al Ta'labi, in his Stories of the Prophets. (
1472 XLII | the mine of manhood; they labour in vain,~The fleet-footed
1473 XXXIX(*) | The rest of the Sultan's ladies were jealous of the gratitude
1474 Pre | against the prison walls of Ka'lah-iSafid. "Without just cause," sings
1475 XXXIII | mines where the gems had lain~Would pierce, as he was
1476 XXXV | misery.~Sorrow has made her lair in my breast,~And undisturbed
1477 XXXIX(*) | Sàki hadis-i-sarvo gul o làleh miravad"--Cup-bearer, a
1478 XXV(*) | are called in Arabic) of lamps, he regarded this to be
1479 Pre | drew represents a wider landscape, though the immediate foreground
1480 XXI(*) | when he reached the town of Lar he found there an acquaintance
1481 XXXIX | Hiding beneath her robe lasciviousness,~She plunders them that
1482 XXV | tavern let me go,~Where laughs the pipe, the merry cymbals
1483 IX | checked~That slender beauties lavish on me,~Until in the grace
1484 IX | accrues to the Sheikh for his lawful cheer,~Or to me for the
1485 V(*) | conscience for accepting a pay lawfully earned, and reminded themselves
1486 XXXVII(*)| animals, formed of concentric layers of animal matter deposited
1487 VII | With a love like a huri I'ld take mine ease,~And wine!
1488 Pre | 73]~in the East as men leading a virtuous and pure life.
1489 Pre | partly due to the natural leaning of the Oriental poet towards
1490 Pre | had been seeking. With a leap they returned into it.~The
1491 VII(*) | through the garden, and leaps in countless fountains,
1492 XLII | mercy came,~But none has leapt forth to renew the game--~
1493 Pre | in which the poet gave lectures on the Koran, and read out
1494 XVIII | passest, see,~To right and leftward those that welcome thee~
1495 II(*) | Baghi-Irem, after Shedad's legendary Paradise.~"Il y avait jadis
1496 XL(*) | borrowed and adapted the Magian legends concerning her, and their
1497 VII | the lamp of the synagogue lend its flame~To set thy monastic
1498 XIII | sweeps.~Lo, not at any time I lent mine ear~To hearken to the
1499 II(*) | science."--Darmsteter, "Lettres sur l'Inde."~A few miles
1500 Pre | pour sauver l'orthodoxie de leur auteur favori. Puis l'magination
1501 VIII(*) | fils aînés?~Où autant de leurs gens privés,~Hérauts, trompettes,
1502 Pre | renowned for courage and for liberality. He was a poet, after the
1503 XVIII | only those, safe, and at liberty,~That fast enchained in
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