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1504 XLI | have risen--~And thou, why liest thou beneath the dust?~Like
1505 XVI | forge of the living and life--~All things are nought!
1506 I(*) | at the cost of the deer's life-blood and the tears of blood which
1507 XXX(*) | hermitage was to be his tomb. Lifting a carpet, he showed him
1508 I | strike their ears~Whose light-freighted vessels have reached the
1509 XXV | give what I sorrow for.~Light-hearted to the tavern let me go,~
1510 XXVIII | when thy cheek's dear torch~Lighted the beacon of desire in
1511 XXI | seemed the sorrow of the sea~Lightened by hope of gain--hope flew
1512 | likely
1513 XVIII(*) | Syringa Persica or Persian lilac. In the early spring, before
1514 VII(*) | spring, and of roses and lilies in the early summer; and
1515 Pre | far reaching hope to the limit of our little day, though
1516 XXII | blossoming rose were fair.~Though limned by most skilful fingers,
1517 XXX | God forbid!" I pray;~Its limpid stream where the shadows
1518 XLII | why are the feet of Khizr lingering?--~The waters of life are
1519 Pre | and noble manner, which links it on to the highest codes
1520 XVIII(*) | terrible apparition of a fierce lion which was his nightly companion.
1521 VI | healing lip is laid upon my lip--~This is enough for me!~
1522 V | and sing again!~And the listening Heavens above thee hung~
1523 XXIX | take thy Koran and recite~Litanies infinite, and weep no more!~ ~
1524 XIX(*) | a clause in the Persian litany of the thirteenth and fourteenth
1525 Pre | est développée une vaste littérature où l'amour divin et Famour
1526 II(*) | hors de sa retraite, il fut livré au serpent, qui le scia
1527 XXXVII(*)| occidentale, obtained from the llamas of Peru, was less valued.
1528 XIV | sake help me lift my fallen load,~And Pity be my comrade
1529 XXIX | Where thou shalt drop thy load--oh, weep no more!~Mine enemies
1530 Pre | Ahmed a poem in which he loaded his name with extravagant
1531 XXVII | threw,~Bound up her camel loads and fled away.~Fain had
1532 XXIV | that stream may rear her lofty stem,~Watering her roots
1533 Pre | they are saved from the logical consequences of their doctrines: "
1534 XXIII | loosed my hand that held her, lone and far~She joumeyeth that
1535 XXV | that the rose is near~With long-desired and flaming coronet,~The
1536 XXVI(*) | ascribe to him also remarkable longevity, and state that he reigned
1537 XXVI(*) | Dirazdast, the Artaxerxes Longimanus of the Greeks. He came to
1538 Pre | the mirror; nay, if thou lookest steadfastly, thou shalt
1539 Pre | little corner of the world, loom to us, under the poet's
1540 IX | the neck of drunkenness loosen the rein.~Oh wind, if thou
1541 Pre | if he had less frequently loosened the rein of his desires,
1542 Pre | attain but seldom.~This losing of the soul in God is only
1543 VI | heart?~I have enough of loss, enough of gain;~I have
1544 XXXV | envenomed cup of mortal lot;~Forget not when a sweeter
1545 XVI | would sink to the common lot--~All things are nought!~
1546 XXXV | sweeter draught was mine,~Loud rose the songs of them that
1547 XXXIV | jangling creeds he hears,~And loud-voiced Fable calls him ceaselessly.~
1548 XVIII | heart, away!~Wine-drunk, love-drunk, we inherit Paradise,~His
1549 Pre | turbulent times. His delicate love-songs were chanted to the rude
1550 XXIX | return again,~Peace to the love-tossed brain--oh, weep no more!~
1551 XXX | drunken eyes,~What news of the lovely maid dost thou bring?~Bid
1552 XXVI(*) | dynasty.~Stanza 3.--The loves of Ferhad and Shirin are
1553 XXXI(*) | observed, especially by the lower orders, that not only do
1554 Pre | desire." It was after this luckless visit to Shah Yahya that
1555 Pre | governorship of Fars, a lucrative and much-coveted post. Sheikh
1556 II(*) | Zohab, vint de l'Arabie et lui prit son tréne; it s'enfuit
1557 V(*) | at hand.~Stanza 2.--The Luli or gipsies, as they were
1558 V | broil,~Those soft-voiced Lulis for whom we sigh;~As Turkish
1559 Pre | Renan has put into a few luminous sentences his view of the
1560 XXXIX | righteousness~Though the world lure thee! like a wrinkled crone,~
1561 XII | dimple of her chin,~Danger lurks there!~Where wilt thou hide,
1562 XXI(*) | were what the Persians call luti, young men with well-dyed
1563 XXXVIII | Each curling lock of thy luxuriant hair~Breaks into barbèd
1564 XIII | strings of Life's most secret lyre,~And still my breast heaves
1565 XXI(*) | They carried heavy iron maces, and seemed more disposed
1566 XII | trembling heart, fleeing in~Such mad haste--where?~To steadfastness
1567 Pre | much the same position that Madame Guyon and the Jansenists
1568 I(*) | Pir-i-Maghan-literally, the Old Man of the Magians. The history of this title
1569 XXV(*) | make occult sciences and magical powers the object of his
1570 Pre | leur auteur favori. Puis l'magination étant montée sur ce thème,
1571 II(*) | splendeur, possé-dait une coupe magique où il voyait tout l'univers
1572 VIII(*) | tongue, and the wise and magnificent Assaf was his minister.
1573 XIII | Have bowed them down and magnified my name,~For in my heart
1574 XL | bride, with a rich store~Of maiden thoughts and jewelled fancies
1575 Pre | Daulat Shah, whose work is mainly a string of anecdote-I have
1576 XXI(*) | arrant scoundrels, they maintain their influence over the
1577 Pre | like a banner among the makers of verse." There is a long
1578 II(*) | dans son empire ni mort, ni maladie, ni vicillesse, et tous
1579 Pre | Asiatique for 1844 and 1845, Malcolm's "History of Persia," Price'
1580 XXIII | The influence of some cold malignant star~Has loosed my hand
1581 III(*) | upon her breast. Wahb ibn Manabbih says that there was a window
1582 XLII | was won~From the mine of manhood; they labour in vain,~The
1583 Pre | there are four stages in the manifestation of the Divinity: in the
1584 XXI | garment shall outshine~Thy many-coloured rags and tattered gear.~
1585 XXX(*) | it is vast and paved with marble; in hot weather it is washed
1586 Pre | leaving the conqueror to "march in triumph through Persepolis."
1587 II(*) | vicillesse, et tous les hommes marchaient dans la taille de jouvenceaux:
1588 III(*) | the land which is called Marib, at a distance of three
1589 Pre | which makes one little mark upon the water's face and
1590 XXX(*) | far-reaching streams, excellent markets, fine streets, and a numerous
1591 Pre | s "Mohammedan History," Markham's "History of Persia", For
1592 Pre | two songs from the Divan, marks the grave. At the head of
1593 XXVI(*) | proceeded to make proposals of marriage to his father's widow. Shirin
1594 XXII | are fair.~Hast seen at a marriage-feast, when the mirth runs high,~
1595 XXVI(*) | widow. Shirin promised to marry him if he would allow her
1596 XIV(*) | taken the precaution of marrying his son, and so securing
1597 XXV | Order and health thy wisdom marshals there.~Not one that numbered
1598 VI | the gold in the world's mart,~On all the tears the world
1599 VIII | seemed to you;~Behold the marvel! of what avail~Was your
1600 XL(*) | time the angels fell to marvelling over the wickedness of man
1601 XXVI(*) | Shirin is called by some Mary, and by others Irene. The
1602 Pre | wisdom), while Shah Shudja masquerades under the title of Solomon
1603 XL(*) | it of them, for they are masters of all magic arts. Tradition
1604 Pre | mystical or a completely material interpretation to his songs.
1605 XXXIX(*) | gold and silver and other materials which the Israelites had
1606 Pre | completely united with God), what matters the Ka'ba and the Synagogue
1607 XXVI(*) | story which all readers of Matthew Arnold know. Kaikobad is
1608 XXVI(*) | daughter of the Emperor Maurice, and wife of Khusro Parwiz,
1609 XXX(*) | parties of pleasure to this mausoleum; they eat food prepared
1610 Pre | good!' for I see that this maxim is worth more than a treasure-house
1611 Pre | this Indian doctrine of Maya, or Illusion," adds M. de
1612 XXXI | merriment ere long will set,~And meagre Ramazan is close at hand!~
1613 XXVII | She knew not what Love's meanest slave can tell:~"'Tis sweet
1614 XI | But empty syllables and meaningless.~The Zealot thirsts for
1615 Pre | similar manner. But these measures did not lead to the desired
1616 Pre | Sufiism, and being but a mediocre poetaster, could get no
1617 Pre | Hafiz's book when he was meditating an expedition against Tauris,
1618 III | whispered prayers and what full meed of praise~I send to thee.~
1619 XVIII | the dust that crowns the meek.~ ~
1620 Pre | to his old head." "Gieb meine Jugend mir zurück!" Other
1621 XXXIX(*) | together into a furnace, to melt them down into one mass,
1622 XXV(*) | having special influence over men--the influence of the moon,
1623 XXXII(*) | need go no further than the Merchant of Venice to find the same
1624 XXI(*) | rescued by two friendly merchants, who were also on their
1625 XIX(*) | his dervish robe, Heaven mercifully showed him a safe refuge
1626 XXXI | red coronet--~The sun of merriment ere long will set,~And meagre
1627 XXXII(*) | locks," and again, "A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of
1628 XL(*) | Persian commentator of the Mesnavi of Jelaleddin Rumi, "that
1629 Pre | him as lords of Persia and Mesopotamia, paying a nominal allegiance
1630 I(*) | flesh is very good to eat. Messer Marco brought the dried
1631 Pre | Omar Khayyam ring like true metal." The criticism and the
1632 Pre | sandal-wood and the saffron of metaphor;~"The bells of alliteration
1633 Pre | declares that his words are metaphorical, and should receive the
1634 V(*) | made it the theme of a long metaphysical poem. The part played by
1635 Pre | a nation of dreamers and metaphysicians. The author of the Dabistan,
1636 Pre | Deussen, in his book on Metaphysics, has pointed out the conclusion
1637 XVIII(*) | that his soul passed by metempsychosis successively through all
1638 XXV(*) | verse thus indicated. This method is frequently used before
1639 XXXIV | took the clay of Adam, and, methought,~Moulded a cup therewith
1640 Pre | mind the weighing scales of metre, rejecting the verse which
1641 II(*) | de Djemshid, et Habib, me mettant le doigt au front, me dit:
1642 XXXIV(*) | three archangels, Gabriel, Michael, and Israfil, were each
1643 XIX | What lay was his? for 'mid the woven rope~Of song,
1644 XXX(*) | takes place between the mid-day and the evening prayers."
1645 Pre | south of Peshawar about the middle of the seventeenth century:--~"
1646 Pre | imprisonment; guiltless, the mightiest head was laid low. He had
1647 XXX(*) | traversing, at the distance of a mile from Shiraz, the pass of
1648 Pre | are chiefly occupied with military expeditions against Yezd,
1649 II(*) | l'Inde et y resta chaché mille ans durant; puis un beau
1650 Pre | peculiar temper of the Persian mind--so congenial, indeed, that
1651 XX | Upon this wasted heart of mine--~Bring me a promise and
1652 XXXIII | none,~Still to the dark mines where the gems had lain~
1653 IV | doth lie,~Sweets shall be mingled with thy mockery,~And not
1654 XXXIX | A dewy wine of Heaven's minist'ring~Until Ghiyasuddin,
1655 VIII(*) | magnificent Assaf was his minister. Upon his seal was engraved
1656 XLIII | will arise and dance to thy minstrelsy.~Though I be old, clasp
1657 XL | fleet~Unvalued; may each minute as it goes~Lay tribute of
1658 VII(*) | fountains, has worked all the miracle. The change from desert
1659 XXVIII(*)| of healing was due to a miraculous quality in His breath.~
1660 XXXIX(*) | hadis-i-sarvo gul o làleh miravad"--Cup-bearer, a tale runs
1661 III | heavenly grace.~God the Creator mirrored in thy face~Thine eyes shall
1662 Pre | beneath the sword of Shah Rukh Mirza, Timur's son, leaving the
1663 II(*) | était un globe terrestre mis au courant, et il me souvient
1664 XVII | from his hand.~All you that misconstrue my words' intent,~I lie
1665 XXX | thy gate,~That the feet of Misfortune enter not here!~Lest my
1666 | miss
1667 Pre | he knows not that he has missed the way; but since he errs
1668 Pre | Nevertheless, the reader misses a sense of restraint both
1669 Pre | Shudja, I would accuse him of mixing up inextricably wine and
1670 XXXIX | that pause and heed her moan.~From Sinai Moses brings
1671 IV | shall be mingled with thy mockery,~And not in vain!"~Thy mouth
1672 XXI(*) | and night, calling upon Mohammad, Ali, and the Imams, or
1673 Pre | History of Persia," Price's "Mohammedan History," Markham's "History
1674 Pre | mystére, et aussi, en Perse du moins, de I'hypocrisie imposée
1675 V(*) | of gold pieces.~"Cest du Molière renversé," says Darmsteter
1676 VII(*) | sayings is: there is no monasticism in Islam. Nevertheless,
1677 Pre | to the Great Khan of the Mongols in Cambalec or Pekin, but
1678 XXXVI | these no more.~Ask not the monk to give thee Truth's pure
1679 XII | Where is the lute?~From monkish cell and lying garb released,~
1680 XII | Where is the preacher's holy monody,~Where is the lute?~From
1681 X(*) | it as they row, and the monotonous accompaniment of the water
1682 Pre | Puis l'magination étant montée sur ce thème, et les esprits
1683 Pre | to Yezd, Hafiz spent some months in the house of the Vizir-induced
1684 XIV | at the boughs in envious mood,~A hundred thorns about
1685 XXIX | time was hidden: weep no more--~Oh, weep no more! in sorrow'
1686 Pre | word of assent. 'At this mornent,' thought the angel, 'some
1687 XVIII(*) | poetry. For thirty-nine mornings he walked beneath the windows
1688 II(*) | y eut dans son empire ni mort, ni maladie, ni vicillesse,
1689 XXIX | What though the river of mortality~Round the unstable house
1690 XVI(*) | and of tastes unknown to mortals. So that if a man desire
1691 VI | cup of wine I prize the most--~This is enough for me!~
1692 Pre | daughters, and among our mothers contention, and the father
1693 XXVIII | when my heart, like foolish moths that scorch~Their wings
1694 XXI(*) | They were a picturesque and motley crew. One or two of them
1695 XXXIV(*) | would not serve a hollow mould of clay; for which reason
1696 Pre | dead a hundred years, my mouldering bones would rise and come
1697 XXXIV(*) | must knock in vain, and as moulding a wine-cup with the despised
1698 XXXIX | and time!~O'er plains and mountain-tops my fearless rhyme,~Child
1699 XVI(*) | is so large that a person mounted on the fleetest horse would
1700 XIII | such as sorrow sings,~My mournful story from thy zither sweeps.~
1701 XVIII(*) | is the Persian colour of mourning. Hafiz compares the weeping
1702 XIV(*) | indifferent as to what his next move in the game should be.~
1703 XXV(*) | divinations are taken from the movements and position of certain
1704 Pre | of Fars, a lucrative and much-coveted post. Sheikh Hussein took
1705 XXI(*) | shouted 'Yah Allah! yah Muhammad! yah Ali!' They all had
1706 Pre | of thy kindness, pray his munificence to tell me, if I were to
1707 Pre | but God has made him both munificent and merciful." And indeed
1708 XXVI(*) | led to the place where the murdered King lay, and drawing a
1709 XL(*) | worshipped, and drink wine. Murderers and idolaters the angels
1710 XXVI | through the wilderness.~The murmuring stream of Ruknabad, the
1711 XXXVII(*)| the annihilator of poison. Murray gives several examples of
1712 XXXIX(*) | country. His real name was Musa ibn Dhafar. He was a magician
1713 V(*) | famous for their beauty and musical accomplishments, and furnished
1714 XL(*) | and the protector of all musicians and singers upon the earth.
1715 XXXI | XXXI~* THE breath of Dawn's musk-strewing wind shall blow,~The ancient
1716 XXI(*) | prayer-carpet of the orthodox Mussulman had not enough value to
1717 Pre | imposée par le fanatisme musulman. C'est, en effet, comme
1718 Pre | a fait fortune chez les musulmans non arabes. Il y faut voir
1719 XI | secret? . . . Heaven is mute~And yet with Him who holds
1720 Pre | quiétisme, d'un certain goût du mystére, et aussi, en Perse du moins,
1721 Pre | girdle, are so many profound mysteries which sometimes they translate
1722 Pre | whole body may be a perfect mystery."-"Translation of the Kilidi
1723 Pre | beaucoup de cas les sens mystiques prêtés à certaines poésies
1724 XL(*) | played a part in very ancient mythology. The Mahommadans borrowed
1725 VI | pray thee send not forth my naked soul~From its poor house
1726 III(*) | Ten kerits, the price of naphtha and reeds for burning the
1727 XIX(*) | Hafiz should choose the "narrow-eyed" Tartar robbers as types
1728 XIX(*) | of Poem III.~Stanza 5.--"Narrow-eyedness" is the exact translation
1729 Pre | enabled him to see through the narrow-minded asceticism of other religious
1730 XXXVIII | longing peace.~My breath is narrowed down to one long sigh~For
1731 Pre | Mahmud Shah Inju who had so narrowly escaped from the hands of
1732 Pre | which they forced upon a nation of dreamers and metaphysicians.
1733 Pre | Englishmen. It may be a national prejudice, but I cannot
1734 I(*) | taken, they find at the navel, between the flesh and the
1735 Pre | Romance of the Rose comes nearer than any other Western allegory
1736 Pre | made in those provinces nearest to India so rapid a progress,
1737 XXIX | Fate in ire.~Oh Pilgr'm nearing Mecca's holy fane,~The thorny
1738 VII(*) | grew up and flourished. Nearly all the celebrated doctors
1739 Pre | feet, and on her bosom the necklace of a mysterious rhythm.~
1740 XXI(*) | drinking purposes. Round their necks they wore charms and amulets,
1741 XXIV | robe lies here,~There my neglected book, both pledged for wine.~
1742 XXI(*) | as to disturb the whole neighbourhood. The owner and inmates of
1743 Pre | owe something both to the Neo-Platonic school of Alexandria and
1744 III | grief, I send thee to thy nest,~Fidelity.~Or far or near
1745 VIII(*) | Nights" pull up in their nets.~
1746 VIII(*) | Ont-ils bien bouté sous le nez? . . .~Autant en emporte
1747 XXXIX(*) | earned from Ghiyasuddin, and nicknamed them contemptuously "the
1748 XVIII(*) | fierce lion which was his nightly companion. At length, on
1749 Pre | quietism, and eventually to nihilism. The highest good to which
1750 Pre | spirit which surrounds with a nimbus of inert sentiment all conceptions
1751 Pre | 2. Hallaj lived in the ninth century. He was believed
1752 Pre | interrupted often enough by the nip of famine in a beleaguered
1753 Pre | love and joy, some have a nobler humanity and cry out across
1754 II(*) | destroyed by a terrible noise from heaven. . . . The city,
1755 V(*) | comment: "In the world of non-existence and possibility, when I
1756 I(*) | In this country (i.e. North-Eastern China) is found the best
1757 XXXIV(*) | breath of life into its nostrils, and ordered the angels
1758 Pre | know, that he must be a notable servant of the Lord, one
1759 Pre | reality they knew their own nothingness and accepted the part that
1760 V(*) | frequent Baghdad, and are notoriously of evil fame, come principally
1761 XL(*) | which he was led astray, notwithstanding the warnings sent down to
1762 Pre | Assisi are not much read nowadays. Nevertheless, the reader
1763 | nowhere
1764 XXV | marshals there.~Not one that numbered Hafiz' name among~The great-unnumbered
1765 XXX(*) | markets, fine streets, and a numerous population. The town is
1766 Pre | Beatrice, perhaps of the Vita Nuova, certainly of the Divine
1767 V(*) | Paris,~J'aime mieux ma mie, ô gué,~J'aime mieux ma mie!"~
1768 X(*) | accompaniment of the water under the oars must be even more fitting
1769 Pre | and, like Venice, she was obedient to neither lord.~Abu Ishac
1770 Pre | charge; but they did not obey his command. He fell fighting
1771 Pre | first theory it has been objected that there is no historic
1772 Pre | admirateurs du poète étaient obligés de prendre pour sauver l'
1773 Pre | over the tomb of Hafiz. An oblong block of stone on which
1774 Pre | and for submitting to the observances enjoined by those whom they
1775 Pre | and Sanguinetti.]~power of observation on the part of Ibn Batuta.
1776 XXXI(*) | The fast is so strictly observed, especially by the lower
1777 Pre | relates that on several occasions he had seen criminals brought
1778 XXXVII(*)| antelopes, &c. The lapis bezoar occidentale, obtained from the llamas
1779 Pre | To many Persians, Hafiz occupies the place that is filled
1780 XXXV(*) | terrible earthquake which occurred in the spring of the year
1781 Pre | to ignore it, many of the odes would have no meaning at
1782 Pre | Shah Shudja died in the odour of sanctity. Ten holy men
1783 XXI(*) | fear, and do not dare to offend them. Consequently no one
1784 Pre | draw his sword and kill the offenders as they stood, and then
1785 XXI(*) | them. Hafiz accepted the offer, went to Hormuz, and embarked
1786 XXI(*) | their way to India, and who offered to pay his expenses to Hormuz,
1787 Pre | not of his choosing: "An officer of my judge stands, like
1788 Pre | divine and human is far older than Sufi thought. It goes
1789 Pre | name who shall be less than omnipotent and omniscient, and on the
1790 Pre | less than omnipotent and omniscient, and on the other it is
1791 XXV(*) | passing events. To meet a one-eyed man is of bad omen, especially
1792 Pre | belief in the essential oneness of God and man.[1] The whole
1793 Pre | érotiques persanes et hindoues n'ont pas plus de réalité que
1794 VIII(*) | trompettes, poursuivants?~Ont-ils bien bouté sous le nez? . . .~
1795 Pre | of Yezd.~From this time onward the governors of the Persian
1796 VII(*) | time of Abu Bekr and Ali onwards, such religious associations
1797 Pre | of consciousness, such as opium, or hashish, or the wild
1798 Pre | from a religion as sharply opposed to it as that of Zoroaster,
1799 Pre | alas for the violence and oppression in this world of pitfalls!
1800 Pre | I see beneath the moon's orbit, every quarter of the earth
1801 XXXI(*) | especially by the lower orders, that not only do they refrain
1802 XXXVII(*)| sort was the lapis bezoar orientale obtained from the wild goat
1803 XXXIX(*) | a hypocritical one, and originally of Kerman or some other
1804 Pre | souvent difficile à démêler. L'origine de se singulier genre de
1805 Pre | third theory is that the origins of Sufiism are to be looked
1806 Pre | de prendre pour sauver l'orthodoxie de leur auteur favori. Puis
1807 Pre | engaged in telling each other--only what we imagine to
1808 Pre | Asiatique for 1858; Sir Gore Ouseley and Daulat Shah, whose work
1809 Pre | Shiraz and Isfahan, finally ousting his old enemy, while Mahommad
1810 Pre | C. Plowden.~I fear the outcome of these directions is too
1811 V(*) | The Emperor was not to be outdone in repartee: he sent the
1812 Pre | have been expounded to the outer world. The tavern, for instance,
1813 XIX(*) | their having stood at the outlet of a reservoir of which
1814 XXI | fair purple garment shall outshine~Thy many-coloured rags and
1815 XL | A Cup-bearer whose cheek outshines the rose,~A friend upon
1816 Pre | they are bound to give an outward adhesion to it, but in their
1817 Pre | it their duty to conform outwardly, and no discredit to use~[
1818 XXVI(*) | in his reign that Rustum overcame Afrasiab's arrny, killing
1819 IX(*) | reflection of the crescent moon overhead. The incident suggested
1820 Pre | that the day of sorrow is overpast; I will return to Shiraz
1821 Pre | of the empire than Mansur overthrew his uncle and possessed
1822 Pre | he lived to witness the overthrow of the race that had sheltered
1823 Pre | outside Persepolis. "Fate overtook him," he sighs, "all too
1824 Pre | seems certain that they owe something both to the Neo-Platonic
1825 Pre | unmindful of the debt he owed him. "My Grey-Beard," he
1826 XXI(*) | whole neighbourhood. The owner and inmates of the house
1827 XVI(*) | stanza, see Introduction, p. 74.~Sidreh and Tuba are
1828 XXVIII | head, and in her service pace the sky!~Hast thou forgotten,
1829 VIII(*) | together by the first great pact between God and man.~Stanza
1830 XXXV(*) | made it more poignant than pages of sentiment!~Stanza 3.--
1831 XXIX | bowed down beneath a secret pain--~Oh stricken heart! joy
1832 Pre | remark that under these painful circumstances he finds his
1833 V(*) | that the mole, powder, and paint, of which a beautiful face
1834 XIII | My soul shall rend the painted veil apart.~Where art thou,
1835 X | does she wield her empery?~Paints and adorns and scents her
1836 Pre | Cup-bearer they seemed to my palate. And then, my brain afire,
1837 Pre | imagine that a friend and panegyrist of theirs could have renounced
1838 Pre | is the mirror also." In a parable, Jami illustrates the universal
1839 Pre | having got do not know how to parade enough. To be sure their
1840 XI | Waters of Life and Irem's Paradise--~What meaning do our dreams
1841 II(*) | pour ça qu'il n'y a plus parmi les hommes ni science, ni
1842 XIV | heart entwined.~Like to the parrot crunching sugar, good~Seemed
1843 XXXIX(*) | washed the King's body; the parrots of India are the court poets
1844 XXXV(*) | friend, even when he is not particularly anxious that days gone by
1845 Pre | théologie toute devotion particulière, toute doctrine secrète,
1846 XXX(*) | citizens of Shiraz make parties of pleasure to this mausoleum;
1847 Pre | the rivalry between the partisans of Ali and those of the
1848 Pre | exégèse qui ne voulait voir partout qu'allégories, on en est
1849 Pre | the laugh of the strutting partridge? Little considered be the
1850 Pre | universe. There is a fine passage in Jami's Yusuf and Zuleikha
1851 II(*) | univers et tout ce qui s'y passe. Certains savants prétendent
1852 Pre | quietism adapted to them all, a passive disposition of spirit which
1853 XX | to-morrow!--or from Fate~Some passport to felicity,~Some written
1854 VI | on the sward;~It floweth past-so flows thy life away,~So
1855 XXI(*) | the dervish, all torn and patched with long journeying-in
1856 XVII | more~I have swerved from my path--keep thou to thine own~For
1857 Pre | town. "Why," he says in a pathetic little poem written while
1858 XXXI | Back to the dark again his pathway lies--~Sing out, sing clear,
1859 XXXII | cypress-tree~Once more the patient nightingale doth rest:~"
1860 III | mine cars~Crying: "Bear patiently the bitter years!~For all
1861 Pre | were alike vain-virtue and patriotism and the love of wife and
1862 Pre | Asie Centrale.~3. Cf. St. Paul, who is scarcely more explicit: "
1863 II(*) | ni les plantes.' Mais le pauvre Djem n'avait point la tête
1864 XXX(*) | court of it is vast and paved with marble; in hot weather
1865 V(*) | Feast of Plunder. When the pay-day of the soldiers came round,
1866 Pre | Persia. "On sait que dans ces pays," he says, "s'est développée
1867 XXX | Shiraz, hail! oh site without peer!~May God be the Watchman
1868 Pre | the Mongols in Cambalec or Pekin, but for all practical purposes
1869 XV(*) | through between the stars and penetrate a darkness which is big
1870 Pre | acuteness of vision, had penetrated into those provinces of
1871 Pre | towards the end will suddenly perceive a nature of wonderful beauty,
1872 XXIV | garment's hem~A river flows; perchance my cypress-tree~Beside that
1873 Pre | cruel beyond measure, a perfidious friend and a relentless
1874 XXXIX(*) | wonders as great as those performed by Moses. It was he and
1875 XXIX | The goal lies far, and perilous is thy road,~Yet every path
1876 Pre | away. There followed a long period of anarchy, which was brought
1877 IX | ruddy pine-tree~He cannot perish whose heart doth hold~The
1878 Pre | Shah Shudja) and received permission for her deeds. Forth came
1879 II(*) | unless very rarely, when God permits it to be seen, a favour
1880 Pre | believe to be true.[2] "Is it permitted to a tree to say, 'I am
1881 Pre | Ishac, whose life was one of perpetual dissipation, redoubled his
1882 Pre | certaines poésies érotiques persanes et hindoues n'ont pas plus
1883 XXIX | more!~Mine enemies have persecuted me,~My Love has turned and
1884 XVIII(*) | Erghwan," the Syringa Persica or Persian lilac. In the
1885 Pre | sent for him in order to persuade him to withdraw his claims.
1886 XXI(*) | violent storm arose, and persuaded the poet that no advantages
1887 XXXVII(*)| obtained from the llamas of Peru, was less valued. The chamois
1888 Pre | to account for the great perversion of Mahommad's teaching.~
1889 Pre | vengeance of God in sweeping pestilence and resistless famine, and
1890 XL(*) | she returned with the same petition, they drew her aside and
1891 Pre | as those embodied in the Phædrus) to the conditions which
1892 XXXVII(*)| Bezoar against the venom of a Phalangie"--whatever that may be.
1893 Pre | for his good pleasure " (Phil. ii. 12).]~when some of
1894 Pre | much further by the Eastern philosophers than by Plato; it implies,
1895 XXI(*) | beauty of the verses and the philosophic dignity in which Hafiz had
1896 Pre | teaching and composing philosophical treatises," says his great
1897 XVIII(*) | Mahommadans confound with Phineas, Elias, and St. George,
1898 X(*) | repetition of the first exquisite phrase. I have been told that the
1899 Pre | spirit," Hafiz is saying in phraseology suited to the ears of those
1900 Pre | Timur advanced with 30,000 picked men against Mansur. The
1901 XXII | most skilful fingers, no pictures please~Unless the beloved'
1902 III(*) | twentieth part of a gold piece.)~Put not your trust in
1903 XXIX | wheel of Fate in ire.~Oh Pilgr'm nearing Mecca's holy fane,~
1904 XXIX | not, oh heart, Noah shall pilot thee,~And guide thine ark
1905 XXV(*) | the number), pricking a pin into the page, and following
1906 IX | shall come like a ruddy pine-tree~He cannot perish whose heart
1907 XXVI | Ferhad for the love of Shirin pined,~Dyeing the desert red with
1908 IX | shall thy bright wings lie pinioned there?~The heavens' green
1909 XXX(*) | on Shiraz!" he concludes piously.~
1910 XV | the nightingale of mirth~Pipes in the Spring-awakened garden
1911 I(*) | to the Tavern-keeper is Pir-i-Maghan-literally, the Old Man of the Magians.
1912 XVIII(*) | Shiraz there is a spot called Pir-i-Sabz, the Old Green Man; whosoever
1913 XXVI(*) | fourth king of the First or Pishdadian dynasty, and is supposed
1914 Pre | oppression in this world of pitfalls! alas for the grace and
1915 Pre | the desert's dusty face." Pitiful tragedies, great rejoicings,
1916 Pre | across the ages with a voice pitifully like our own; and yet few
1917 Pre | the hot iron." A stern and pitiless man was this Mahommad, brave
1918 XXXIX | by space and time!~O'er plains and mountain-tops my fearless
1919 VII(*) | retreat planted with great plane-trees. The water which flows in
1920 XLII | music is hushed, and the planets roll~In silence; has Zohra
1921 XXX(*) | grave, covered over with planks. In that box,"he said, pointing
1922 XXI(*) | of ground, sow wheat or plant flowers, and remain until
1923 II(*) | desséchaient les eaux ni les plantes.' Mais le pauvre Djem n'
1924 Pre | said to be of Hafiz's own planting, stood for many hundreds
1925 Pre | them to look for some solid platform on which to build a theory
1926 XLII | midst of the field, to the players' feet,~The ball of God's
1927 Pre | and the whole world be a playing-ground unto thee. The fame of thy
1928 Pre | the source and the object, plays a large part in Sufi writings,
1929 XXVI | from out Mosalla's fair pleasaunce,~Summon me back when I would
1930 Pre | came into existence when it pleased God to manifest himself
1931 Pre | interpreted only the language of pleasure--between these two there
1932 XXI | fetch a cup~How brave a pledge of piety is mine,~Which
1933 XXIV | my neglected book, both pledged for wine.~With dust my heart
1934 XXI(*) | it, and enclosing a small plot of ground, sow wheat or
1935 Pre | Kilidi Afghani," by T. C. Plowden.~I fear the outcome of these
1936 XXXIX | robe lasciviousness,~She plunders them that pause and heed
1937 XXIX | And chained in poverty and plunged in night,~Oh Hafiz, take
1938 XXIV(*) | the last couplet of this poem--the last three lines of
1939 Pre | en est venu à faire des poèmes réellement à double sens.
1940 Pre | mystiques prêtés à certaines poésies érotiques persanes et hindoues
1941 Pre | and being but a mediocre poetaster, could get no further than
1942 Pre | précautions que les admirateurs du poète étaient obligés de prendre
1943 Pre | singer who wrote his Ars Poetica in the mountains south of
1944 Pre | MAHOMMAD, better known by his poetical surname of Hafiz, was born
1945 XXX(*) | planks. In that box,"he said, pointing to a chest opposite to him,
1946 XXXVII(*)| signify the annihilator of poison. Murray gives several examples
1947 II(*) | en deux avec une arête de poisson. Entre autres splendeurs,
1948 I(*) | reply, that it was good policy to steal from the heretics
1949 Pre | him; "but," says the poet politely, "no favour of thine could
1950 XVI(*) | that it will be laden with pomegranates, grapes, dates, and other
1951 Pre | they used it, and thereby popularised it, delighting, as only
1952 XIX(*) | great cities; they reduced populous and fertile regions to a
1953 XXI(*) | themselves in the gateway or porch of his dwelling, or outside
1954 XXI(*) | before they had left the port a violent storm arose, and
1955 Pre | une imagination vive et portée au quiétisme, d'un certain
1956 XXV(*) | the reply that there was positive proof of their truth. The
1957 II(*) | au temps de sa splendeur, possé-dait une coupe magique où il
1958 Pre | which that of Dante does not possess. The Italian is bound down
1959 XXX(*) | high place among cities. It possesses pleasant gardens, far-reaching
1960 Pre | of Sheikh Hussein, took possession of Shiraz and Isfahan, finally
1961 II(*) | father of chemistry and the possessor of the philosopher's stone.~
1962 V(*) | world of non-existence and possibility, when I beheld the splendour
1963 XXXV(*) | discredit, since it may quite possibly be merely the Oriental way
1964 Pre | lucrative and much-coveted post. Sheikh Hussein took the
1965 Pre | an allegory. The world is posterior to God only in the nature
1966 V(*) | relations with Zuleikha, Potiphar's wife, is one of the famous
1967 VIII(*) | privés,~Hérauts, trompettes, poursuivants?~Ont-ils bien bouté sous
1968 V(*) | may mention that the mole, powder, and paint, of which a beautiful
1969 XVI | relief.~Thou, Hafiz, art praised for the songs thou hast
1970 Pre | outside Shiraz, a garden the praises of which he was never tired
1971 Pre | the Sun of the Faith, the Praiseworthy, and One who can recite
1972 Pre | weary seeker after wisdom, praying God to show him some guiding
1973 XVI | trees could be bought~By thy praying-oh Cypress of Truth, dost not
1974 IV | his own life thy servant prays;~Love's dart in thy bent
1975 Pre | it had fallen among the pre-Islamitic Arabs; but if he did not
1976 I(*) | invaded Persia, and the preachers of the Prophet supplanted
1977 Pre | des commentateurs, ou des précautions que les admirateurs du poète
1978 Pre | TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE~SHEMSUDDIN MAHOMMAD, better
1979 XI | Hafiz doth an earthly cup prefer--~But what, between the two,
1980 XVIII(*) | become his wife, for she preferred a man of genius to the son
1981 II(*) | souvient qu'il y a deux ans, prenant le thé dans un café de Stamboul
1982 Pre | poète étaient obligés de prendre pour sauver l'orthodoxie
1983 Pre | that his brother Ahmed was preparing to dispute the succession
1984 XXV(*) | of Cassiopea is of evil presage. Besides these omens, divinations
1985 Pre | action, as the Maker or the Preserver of the world; in the third
1986 XLII | her lute?~There is none to press out the vine's ripe fruit,~
1987 XLIII | all men's endeavour has pressed,~And thou the idol of Hafiz'
1988 Pre | indeed, in answer to the pressing invitation of Shah, Mahmud
1989 II(*) | seen, a favour one Colabah pretended to have received in the
1990 II(*) | passe. Certains savants prétendent que cette coupe était le
1991 XXI(*) | although they have great pretensions to sanctity, by which they
1992 Pre | de cas les sens mystiques prêtés à certaines poésies érotiques
1993 XXI(*) | sorrow of the sea. Under pretext of bidding farewell to some
1994 VIII(*) | Grenobles~Le Dauphin, les preux, les senés?~Où de Dijon,
1995 XXV | powers of night no more prevail!~Praise be to God, now that
1996 XXV(*) | discover as far as possible the prevailing opinion among them. One
1997 XXVII | she, and I the helpless prey;~Wounded and sick, round
1998 XXI | The Sultan's crown, with priceless jewels set,~Encircles fear
1999 XXV(*) | Hafiz among the number), pricking a pin into the page, and
2000 XXXIV(*) | and was puffed up with pride, and became of the number
2001 I(*) | the Prophet supplanted the priests of Zoroaster, their title
2002 I(*) | Persian faiths. It indicated primarily the priest of the first
2003 XLII | man knoweth, in youth or prime~Or in wisest age; of whom
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