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2004 XXX(*) | and warm in winter. The principal mosque is called the Old
2005 V(*) | notoriously of evil fame, come principally from this district. Whilst
2006 Pre | the consequences of their principles to the adepts who had attained
2007 X(*) | to be spurious; but it is printed in most of the popular editions,
2008 Pre | Ishac was brought thither, a prisoner, from Isfahan; he may even
2009 II(*) | vint de l'Arabie et lui prit son tréne; it s'enfuit dans
2010 VIII(*) | Où autant de leurs gens privés,~Hérauts, trompettes, poursuivants?~
2011 VI | A brimming cup of wine I prize the most--~This is enough
2012 Pre | Ali himself, though it is probable that he is imputing to the
2013 XXVI(*) | violent death by his son, who proceeded to make proposals of marriage
2014 Pre | who has suffered from this process; it has removed him, in
2015 XXXI | rose--now, now her sweets proclaim,~While yet the purple petals
2016 XIII | song he sang.~It was the proclamation of thy love~That shook the
2017 XXI(*) | had not enough value to procure for him so much as one glass
2018 I(*) | imposthume is the musk that produces that powerful perfume. There
2019 XXV(*) | difficult, and many who professed to be acquainted with them
2020 V(*) | that rapine was their true profession.~Stanza 3.--Joseph is the
2021 Pre | patron; moreover, he nursed a professional jealousy of Hafiz, being
2022 Pre | earliest Indian teaching, and Professor Deussen, in his book on
2023 Pre | of the law. "If any one proffers a demand to me there, I
2024 XXIII | dead,~All wisdomless and profitless I spend!~The nightingale
2025 Pre | dance?" He was, indeed, profoundly sceptical as to the infallibility
2026 Pre | nearest to India so rapid a progress, because, before the conquest
2027 Pre | Paradise, and he heard God pronounce a word of assent. 'At this
2028 Pre | mystics could have been propagated; and as for the second,
2029 XXXVII(*)| drunk, and endive, are the proper Bezoar against the venom
2030 Pre | bones of the poet, and his prophecy that his grave should become
2031 Pre | 1382 Shah Shudja sent a propitiatory embassy to him with gifts--
2032 XXVI(*) | son, who proceeded to make proposals of marriage to his father'
2033 XXXIV(*) | of all things, and then proposed them to the angels, and
2034 XXXIX(*) | Some say that he was a proselyte, but a hypocritical one,
2035 XL(*) | of the heavens, and the protector of all musicians and singers
2036 XXIV(*) | because Hafiz had been the protégé of Shah Shudja's former
2037 XXXIV(*) | though they had at first protested that it was not seemly that
2038 XVIII | cheek~Learn this from Hafiz: proudest heads shall bend,~And dwellers
2039 XV(*) | is with child"--a Persian proverb extraordinarily suggestive
2040 Pre | wine that Sheikh Mahmud provided for him; in other words,
2041 II(*) | Aden, being preserved by Providence as a monument of divine
2042 Pre | Sheikh went far towards providing him with a good equipment
2043 Pre | such a victory and of the prowess of such and such a royal
2044 Pre | but Hafiz, perhaps with prudence, declined the invitation,
2045 Pre | appears to have played the prudent, if rather unromantic part
2046 XXXIV(*) | Eblis, who refused, and was puffed up with pride, and became
2047 VIII(*) | in the "Arabian Nights" pull up in their nets.~
2048 Pre | done after his death by his pupil Sayyed Kasim el Anwar, and
2049 Pre | fame drew a great number of pupils. We find Hafiz asking his
2050 Pre | burning still, and with a purer flame, behind the veil which
2051 XIX | gladness fling,~Jasmin breathes purity-art sorrowing~Like an unopened
2052 Pre | solution of the mysterious purpose of human life, and an unsatisfactory
2053 XXV(*) | all his energies to the pursuit of spiritual knowledge he
2054 XXXI(*) | smoke until the sunset gun puts an end to the day's abstinence.
2055 IX | So shrank my heart and quailed in the shade~Oh Song-bird
2056 V(*) | true beauty with different qualities, I knew for certain that
2057 V(*) | dishes of rice and great quantities of cooked food were prepared
2058 Pre | Ishac's execution, quotes a quatrain which the Atabeg is supposed
2059 II(*) | je ne saurai vous dire à quelle date au juste, mais 'tant
2060 II(*) | description of the poet's quest for love. In an allegory
2061 XXV(*) | and geomancy Mr. Browne questioned a learned Persian, and received
2062 XVI | strife!~One passion has quickened the heart and the soul,~
2063 XLIII | The rain of a mercy that quickeneth on my grave,~Before, like
2064 XLII | fleet-footed wind and the quickening rain,~And what has befallen
2065 Pre | not steered his bark into quiet waters. In 1340 Shiraz was
2066 Pre | imagination vive et portée au quiétisme, d'un certain goût du mystére,
2067 II(*) | taille de jouvenceaux: de quinze ans; it n'y avait ni chaleur,
2068 V(*) | ville,~Et qu'il me fallût quitter~L'amour de ma mie,~Je dirais
2069 Pre | of the two "denique sit quod vis, simplex dumtaxat et
2070 I(*) | reproached for setting a quotation from the works of the abhorred
2071 Pre | est le fruit d'un extrème raffinement, d'une imagination vive
2072 XXV(*) | who was setting out on a raid, when one of his standards
2073 Pre | that it is like that of a raindrop upon the ocean, which makes
2074 XXXIX(*) | complete the ode. The line ran thus: "Sàki hadis-i-sarvo
2075 Pre | to satisfy it; men of all ranks turned out to do the work,
2076 III | peace again,~Dear life thy ransom! From thy singers learn~
2077 Pre | provinces nearest to India so rapid a progress, because, before
2078 V(*) | reminded themselves that rapine was their true profession.~
2079 II(*) | be invisible, unless very rarely, when God permits it to
2080 XIX(*) | provinces of North Africa. They rased to the ground great cities;
2081 III(*) | the officers of Harun al Rashid, saw in it the following
2082 XXXV(*) | same time, in spite of this rational explanation, it must be
2083 XXIV | the Great King's face;~One ray of light from out Thy dwelling-place~
2084 XXXII(*) | rain and wind and of the rays of the sun.~Stanza 4.--It
2085 Pre | may perhaps refer to the re-establishment of the Muzaffaride line
2086 Pre | C'est, en effet, comme réaction contre la sécheresse de
2087 Pre | hindoues n'ont pas plus de réalité que les allégories du Cantique
2088 Pre | the two wisest men in his realm?"~Hafiz by this time had
2089 XXIII | was her brow,~And in the realms of beauty she bore sway.~
2090 XXIV | cypress-tree~Beside that stream may rear her lofty stem,~Watering
2091 XXVI | Spring, her scarlet chalice rears,~There Ferhad for the love
2092 Pre | all creeds they could not reasonably place one above another;
2093 Pre | comes it that his lovers are reciting his beauties? They can only
2094 Pre | been distinguished for his reckless bearing. He, too, like the
2095 XI | slip from the hand of Fate,~Reckon each hour as a certain gain;~
2096 Pre | mystical poetry was taking a recognised place in the literature
2097 Pre | has retained an imperfect recollection, so the soul of the Sufi
2098 Pre | for I am within.']~they recommend ascetic living and solitude;
2099 II(*) | drink wine, and that he recommended it to his subjects as a
2100 Pre | Sultan Ahmed of Baghdad recommending to their protection his
2101 Pre | precaution, which he himself recommends, of washing it clean in
2102 XVI | That virtue was easy and recompense yours;~From the monastery
2103 Pre | greatest difficulties lay in reconciling the all-powerfulness of
2104 XIX(*) | fertile, but which is now reconquered by the sands of the Sahara.~"
2105 Pre | famous men who have had recourse to these Sortes Hafizianæ.
2106 XXXIX(*) | their care he eventually recovered. The rest of the Sultan'
2107 XXXI | Shall reach the rose in her red-curtained tent.~Forth from the mosque!
2108 XVIII(*) | with buds of a beautiful reddish-purple colour.~"Khizr," a prophet
2109 Pre | St. Francis addresses his Redeemer in terms not very different
2110 Pre | of perpetual dissipation, redoubled his orgies in the face of
2111 XL(*) | judgment-seat demanding redress against her husband, and
2112 VIII | the mouth of the slender reed,~What thanks to thee when
2113 III(*) | the price of naphtha and reeds for burning the body of
2114 XXXV(*) | the passionate appeal need refiect no discredit, since it may
2115 XXXVII | unsullied heart~Shall dare reflect my Lady's perfect grace.~
2116 I(*) | journey, sending them forth refreshed and comforted in body. And
2117 I(*) | draught of Sufi doctrine which refreshes and comforts the soul.~
2118 XI(*) | Mahommadans rest and find refreshment after they have crossed
2119 XXI(*) | Consequently no one ventures to refuse them admission into their
2120 XXI(*) | from a rich man, and if he refuses to pay it, will establish
2121 I(*) | this sense it gradually regained the honourable place from
2122 I(*) | produced. There exists in that region a kind of wild animal like
2123 III(*) | person chancing to look at a register kept by one of the officers
2124 II(*) | juste, mais 'tant qu'il regna, it n'y eut dans son empire
2125 II(*) | nommé Djem ou Djemshid. It régna sept cents ans; je ne saurai
2126 XXIII | fleeting treasures were,~Regret and Winter follow in their
2127 I | When each jesting mouth has rehearsed my shame!~Oh Hafiz, seeking
2128 Pre | weighing scales of metre, rejecting the verse which is too short
2129 XLII | have bloomed, yet no bird rejoiced,~No vibrating throat has
2130 Pre | conquest, and went on his way rejoicing.~It is not only as a maker
2131 Pre | Pitiful tragedies, great rejoicings, the fall of kingdoms, and
2132 XVI | be silent! nought brings relief.~Thou, Hafiz, art praised
2133 Pre | secrète, toute combinaison religieuse vivante et variée."[1]~Those
2134 XXVI(*) | flow through it, he would relinquish Shirin to him. Ferhad set
2135 Pre | sigh the greyhaired man relinquished it. "Ah, why has my black
2136 XXI(*) | compassion and gave him the remainder of the money which Mahmud
2137 Pre | of the house of Muzaffar remained alive; Mansur's survivors
2138 Pre | ruler over all Fars. The remaining years of his reign are chiefly
2139 Pre | my prison." He goes on to remark that under these painful
2140 Pre | that he is said to have remarked, "It seems that Fortune
2141 XXXVI | pain and sorrow, ask no remedy!~But when the time of roses
2142 XXXIV | dwells retired shall break,~Rememb'ring a black mole and a
2143 Pre | people, calling upon them to remember the benefits they had received
2144 V(*) | pay lawfully earned, and reminded themselves that rapine was
2145 II | men Love's secret lies,~Remote and unrevealed his dwelling-place.~
2146 Pre | throne and the consequent removal of an edict against the
2147 Pre | and the sober can dance.~Renan has put into a few luminous
2148 XIII | me weeps.~My soul shall rend the painted veil apart.~
2149 XLII | none has leapt forth to renew the game--~What has befallen
2150 Pre | therefore to Kerman and renounce this unhappy city." And
2151 Pre | panegyrist of theirs could have renounced all the joys of life. His
2152 V(*) | pieces.~"Cest du Molière renversé," says Darmsteter of these
2153 Pre | refuge with Mansur, who repaid his confidence by imprisoning
2154 V(*) | violence. Thus they made reparation to their conscience for
2155 V(*) | was not to be outdone in repartee: he sent the poet away a
2156 Pre | his opinion, he was only repeating aloud what all Sufis believe
2157 Pre | dares not speak out, which repels the European just as much
2158 X(*) | ending on an almost whispered repetition of the first exquisite phrase.
2159 XVI | breaks into flower,~Neither repines though she fade and die--~
2160 Pre | thy master's house?" Hafiz replies that the road in which he
2161 V(*) | and according to general report lead very dissolute lives.
2162 II | bitter words his love's repose."~The tavern step shall
2163 V(*) | Je dirais au roi Henri:~Reprenez votre Paris,~J'aime mieux
2164 V(*) | does not stand in need, represent the ink, colour, dots, and
2165 Pre | leaving to us so indistinct a representation of his own time, and of
2166 Pre | he says. "He is the best representative of their character, whether
2167 Pre | refused to recognise as true representatives of Mahommad. They read the
2168 Pre | picture that Hafiz drew represents a wider landscape, though
2169 XXVI | draught of wine and love repressed~Are joys foundationless--
2170 XII | glances fled, and where for me~Reproaches meet?~His friend's bright
2171 XXVIII | forgot?) drew from thine eyes reproof,~And made thee hold thy
2172 Pre | escaped at death, is entirely repugnant to all Sufis nor can they
2173 Pre | small stipend, would my request be tolerated?" One cannot
2174 XXI(*) | From these straits he was rescued by two friendly merchants,
2175 Pre | the manners of the East resemble but vaguely those of the
2176 Pre | Baghdad and Cairo must have resembled that of Venice between Rome
2177 XIX(*) | stood at the outlet of a reservoir of which no other trace
2178 XIX(*) | by breaking down the old reservoirs and destroying the irrigating
2179 XXVI(*) | over the mountains between Resht and Tehran, I have seen
2180 XXI(*) | journey from Shiraz. Hafiz resolved to accept the invitation.
2181 I(*) | keepers of such places of resort were, for the most part,
2182 Pre | He insisted that man is responsible for his own salvation: "
2183 II(*) | enfuit dans l'Inde et y resta chaché mille ans durant;
2184 V(*) | district. Whilst we were resting at the caravanserai a party
2185 Pre | night; for the one has no resting-place, and when the dreamer awakens
2186 XXVI | knows where even now the restless wind~Scatters the dust of
2187 Pre | reader misses a sense of restraint both in the matter and in
2188 Pre | of all actions, but they restricted the consequences of their
2189 Pre | not lead to the desired results. The chief of the threatened
2190 Pre | and wisdom of which it has retained an imperfect recollection,
2191 Pre | grape has repented of her retirement; she went to the keeper
2192 XXXVI(*) | Persian story which has been retold by many writers.~
2193 II(*) | étant aventuré hors de sa retraite, il fut livré au serpent,
2194 VII(*) | into a cool and shadowy retreat planted with great plane-trees.
2195 Pre | he had accompanic imur s retreating army. "The wind has brought
2196 II(*) | Hejra." "Elle n'a pas été retrouvée, la coupe de Djemshid,"
2197 Pre | veil of the body. But this reunion is pushed much further by
2198 Pre | was answered, "Thus the revealers of secrets are punished."]~
2199 Pre | Oriental historians love, reveals to us the fearless and terrible
2200 XXII | the mirth runs high,~The revellers scatter gold with a careless
2201 XIII | voice, as from a rocky hill~Reverberates the softly spoken word,~
2202 Pre | Nimrod were in apparent revolt against the Divinity, in
2203 Pre | arabes. Il y faut voir une révolte de l'esprit arien contre
2204 XXVI | rouse thy wonder; Time's revolving sphere~Over a thousand lives
2205 XIX(*) | destroyed the ancient city of Rhages, which lay at a distance
2206 XXXIX | mountain-tops my fearless rhyme,~Child of a night, its year-long
2207 Pre | necklace of a mysterious rhythm.~Add to these the hidden
2208 Pre | his songs, the delicate rhythms, the beat of the refrain,
2209 V(*) | soldiers came round, dishes of rice and great quantities of
2210 XVI(*) | silken garments and beasts to ride on, ready saddled and bridled
2211 XXXVI | the offender I~Ah, let the rift my tears have channelled
2212 XXXIX | swerve not from the path of righteousness~Though the world lure thee!
2213 I(*) | Shi'ites regarded as the rightful successor to the Khalifate.
2214 Pre | sémitique, excluant par la rigueur de sa théologie toute devotion
2215 XVIII | enchained in thy linked ringlets are.~But from the image
2216 Pre | out before his time with riotous living, Shah Shudja did
2217 XLII | to press out the vine's ripe fruit,~And what has befallen
2218 VII | His banqueting-hall is the ripening field,~And his tent the
2219 XXXIX | rises up,~Clothed in her ripest beauty: fill the cup!~Of
2220 XLI | tulip from the dust have risen--~And thou, why liest thou
2221 Pre | and in the second to the rivalry between the partisans of
2222 XL | doth shine,~And grass-grown river-banks are fair to see.~The Saki'
2223 XXX(*) | on every side; and five rivers flow through it, amongst
2224 III | halting-place~Upon Love's road-absent, I see thy face,~And in
2225 Pre | gathered the honey of the roads of pilgrimage. Once, indeed,
2226 Pre | that pilgrims gather by the roadside. He sent to Ahmed a poem
2227 XXXIV(*) | prayer that he would not rob her of her substance, and
2228 V | on the spoil,~They have robbed and plundered the peace
2229 XIX(*) | i.e. I, a poor man of one robe--dervish signifying in its
2230 XIII | Lady's voice, as from a rocky hill~Reverberates the softly
2231 V(*) | ground. The soldiers then rode up, armed as if for battle,
2232 XLII | hushed, and the planets roll~In silence; has Zohra broken
2233 XXVI | thousand lives like thine has rolled.~That cup within thy fingers,
2234 Pre | lay upon the surface; the Romance of the Rose comes nearer
2235 XIX | his? for 'mid the woven rope~Of song, he brought word
2236 XXXI | close at hand!~Dear is the rose--now, now her sweets proclaim,~
2237 XXXV(*) | unfortunately no longer rose-gardens upon its banks, for it disappeared
2238 Pre | are drinking sherbet of rose-water and sugar; the wise are
2239 Pre | biographers will, take a rosy view of his life. Daulat
2240 XXXV | dust wisdom and passion rot.~My friends have thrust
2241 Pre | coepit institui, currente rota cur urceus exit," and perhaps
2242 VIII(*) | Compare François Villon's rough and powerful treatment of
2243 XXVI | that thy days unfold~Shall rouse thy wonder; Time's revolving
2244 Pre | fierce and tender spirit, roused by turns to merciless condemnation
2245 X(*) | the Ganges sing it as they row, and the monotonous accompaniment
2246 II(*) | c'est-à-dire la gloire royale qui vient de Dieu, l'abandonna;
2247 XV | ask the stars when thou'rt away.~Oh come! and when
2248 XXXIII | its pain.~If seekers after rubies there were none,~Still to
2249 Pre | love-songs were chanted to the rude accompaniment of the clash
2250 XXVI | yet we may~To our soul's ruin the forbidden draught~Perhaps
2251 Pre | beneath the sword of Shah Rukh Mirza, Timur's son, leaving
2252 Pre | placed in opposition to the ruling Khalifs, and were obliged
2253 I | again and depart!"~The waves run high, night is clouded with
2254 Pre | not Islam, which is the running sore of all Oriental countries."~
2255 Pre | one who sings the cool rush of the wind of dawn, the
2256 XX | Bring me for pity and for ruth!~Then shall all unbelievers
2257 XXXV(*) | the Divan: " Yàd bàd àn ruz-i-gàràn, yàd bàd!" A man will set
2258 XXI | from the base,~Two hundred sacks of jewels were not worth~
2259 XIII | thou, Minstrel! touch thy saddest strings~Till clothed in
2260 Pre | horse is wounded beneath the saddle, and the ass wears a collar
2261 XVI(*) | beasts to ride on, ready saddled and bridled and adorned
2262 Pre | the sandal-wood and the saffron of metaphor;~"The bells
2263 II(*) | café de Stamboul avec un sage d'Isfahan, nommé Habib,
2264 XIX(*) | reconquered by the sands of the Sahara.~"One poor robe." The Persian
2265 Pre | of India and Persia. "On sait que dans ces pays," he says, "
2266 XIV | cordage start,~For God's sake help me lift my fallen load,~
2267 XXXIX(*) | ode. The line ran thus: "Sàki hadis-i-sarvo gul o làleh
2268 VIII(*) | les senés?~Où de Dijon, Sallin et Dolles,~Les sires et
2269 XXXIV(*) | celebrate thy praise and sanctify thee. God answered, Verily
2270 Pre | hues, adorn her with the sandal-wood and the saffron of metaphor;~"
2271 XIX(*) | is now reconquered by the sands of the Sahara.~"One poor
2272 II(*) | tribe of Ad settled in the sandy deserts near Aden, where
2273 Pre | edited by Defrémery and Sanguinetti.]~power of observation on
2274 XXXIV | cheek,~And his life ebb, sapped at its secret springs.~Yet
2275 Pre | exaggerated submission, saps the root of a faith that
2276 Pre | There was a frog which sat upon the shores of the ocean,
2277 XXXIX(*) | perform the task to the King's satisfaction, and at length some one
2278 Pre | Sufis nor can they explain satisfactorily the divergence of their
2279 Pre | succeed in indicating a satisfactory way out of the dilemma,
2280 II(*) | régna sept cents ans; je ne saurai vous dire à quelle date
2281 Pre | obligés de prendre pour sauver l'orthodoxie de leur auteur
2282 XXI(*) | Others were half-naked savages, with hair hanging down
2283 Pre | union with God, they are saved from the logical consequences
2284 XLII | wind of Spring?~None now sayeth: "A love was mine,~Loyal
2285 VII(*) | famous of the Prophet's sayings is: there is no monasticism
2286 Pre | of his mind the weighing scales of metre, rejecting the
2287 IX | my Love's red cheek,~And scant of wit, ye who fail to seek~
2288 Pre | winding-sheet alight." Or: "If the scent of her hair were to blow
2289 XIX | eglantine!~The violets their scented gladness fling,~Jasmin breathes
2290 X | empery?~Paints and adorns and scents her too,~Fresh and afresh
2291 Pre | was, indeed, profoundly sceptical as to the infallibility
2292 Pre | tomans daily among the poor scholars of Shiraz. Both on account
2293 II(*) | livré au serpent, qui le scia en deux avec une arête de
2294 XXVIII | like foolish moths that scorch~Their wings and yet return,
2295 XXXIV | And send him forth with scorched and drooping wings.~The
2296 XXI(*) | impostors, and generally arrant scoundrels, they maintain their influence
2297 V(*) | possible) forth from the screen of chastity (the pure existence
2298 XXVI(*) | have been the Ahasuerus of Scripture who married Esther. Persian
2299 XXVI(*) | weary hours executed the sculptures upon the rock Behistun--
2300 XIV | of the road!~My face is seamed with dust, mine eyes are
2301 Pre | presence of God, and the blind searching of man for that by which
2302 XXI(*) | road and the discomforts of seasickness. With singular generosity
2303 Pre | comme réaction contre la sécheresse de l'Islamisme que le soufisme
2304 Pre | particulière, toute doctrine secrète, toute combinaison religieuse
2305 Pre | Shudja did his utmost to secure the welfare of his family
2306 XIV(*) | marrying his son, and so securing for himself grandchildren
2307 XXXVII | pure thou lift thine eyes."~Seeing but himself, the Zealot
2308 Pre | described himself as a weary seeker after wisdom, praying God
2309 XXXIII | till thou heal its pain.~If seekers after rubies there were
2310 XXXIV(*) | protested that it was not seemly that they should bow down
2311 Pre | drunkards and sometimes seers," says one of them, "wish
2312 V(*) | I am now as poor as thou seest." The Emperor was not to
2313 XX | cup be mine.~Cup-bearer, seize to-day, nor wait~Until to-morrow!--
2314 Pre | he can hope to attain but seldom.~This losing of the soul
2315 XXV(*) | are consulted in order to select a favourable day for embarking
2316 XXVIII | thou forgot?) the wine's self-pressed my suit,~And filled the
2317 Pre | royal general-just what any self-respecting court poet would feel it
2318 XXIV | sea!~Nay, by the hand that sells me wine, I vow~No more the
2319 Pre | Pour Hafiz, par exemple, il semble bien que l'explication allégorique
2320 Pre | not yet quite free from Semitic realism), but it is in the
2321 Pre | effroyante simplicité de l'esprit sémitique, excluant par la rigueur
2322 III(*) | his own heart, which he sends to his mistress that she
2323 VIII(*) | Dauphin, les preux, les senés?~Où de Dijon, Sallin et
2324 Pre | put into a few luminous sentences his view of the mystical
2325 Pre | forget that they have a separate existence, and to lose themselves
2326 II(*) | Djem ou Djemshid. It régna sept cents ans; je ne saurai
2327 Pre | set forth for India; but a series of accidents befell him,
2328 XXXVII(*)| instance, in his book on Serpents (1607), remarks that "the
2329 Pre | house a sure refuge, and the servants of the Vizir useful allies
2330 VII(*) | Persian sun into a cool and shadowy retreat planted with great
2331 XXVI | for on her stalk's green shaft~She bears a wine-cup through
2332 Pre | Though the wind of discord shake the two worlds, mine eyes
2333 Pre | Some fish swimming in the shallow water heard the frog's song,
2334 XXXIX | through,~Upon the jasmine's shamèd cheek the dew~Gathers like
2335 Pre | spades of silver. Abu Ishac shared the passion of the age for
2336 XI(*) | crossed the terrible bridge, sharper than the edge of a sword,
2337 Pre | much from a religion as sharply opposed to it as that of
2338 Pre | line. Hafiz took up the sheet in his uncle's absence and
2339 XXI(*) | shoulders the carved cocoa-nut shell, which is indispensable
2340 Pre | overthrow of the race that had sheltered him, he foresaw the troubles
2341 XXX(*) | above the throne of God, shelters it with his wings. Hafiz
2342 II(*) | who was himself the son of Shem. The tribe of Ad settled
2343 Pre | TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE~SHEMSUDDIN MAHOMMAD, better known by
2344 Pre | the foolish are drinking sherbet of rose-water and sugar;
2345 Pre | has a vague and somewhat shifting significance in the language
2346 XXI(*) | Hormuz, and embarked on the ship. But before they had left
2347 Pre | Isfahan; but he fears the Shirazis, who are a brave people,
2348 XIII | proclamation of thy love~That shook the strings of Life's most
2349 IV | brows the Archer lays,~Nor shoots in vain.~Art thou with grief
2350 Pre | frog which sat upon the shores of the ocean, and ceaselessly,
2351 XXXI(*) | sleep late in Ramazan and shorten the long hours that must
2352 Pre | thou didst shoot, but God shot"--they take as a proof of
2353 XXI(*) | all had slung from their shoulders the carved cocoa-nut shell,
2354 XXI(*) | skins of gazelles on their shoulders--barefooted, dirty, and covered
2355 XXI(*) | As they went along they shouted 'Yah Allah! yah Muhammad!
2356 IV | thy hair's soft radiance showers~Ah, not in vain!~Before
2357 XXV | path, oh Saki, thou hast shown--~Long may thy cup be full,
2358 IX | from the cold night air,~So shrank my heart and quailed in
2359 XIX(*) | and when finally the last shred of his orthodoxy had been
2360 Pre | for our poet, but I have a shrewd suspicion that the Cupbearer
2361 IX | to thy net.~As the tulip shrinks from the cold night air,~
2362 XXIX(*) | Stanza 3.--Maghilan, a thorny shrub which grows on the deserts
2363 Pre | Shah Yahya in Yezd. Shah Shudia was a man of like energy
2364 V(*) | these lines, and quotes~"Si le roi m'avait donné~Paris
2365 XXV | days be fair!~Trouble and sickness from my breast have flown,~
2366 Pre | marched into Fars and laid siege to Shiraz. Abu Ishac, whose
2367 XX | Bring me a promise and a sign!~Between the ambush of mine
2368 Pre | life, and an unsatisfactory sign-post to happiness; "the abode
2369 Pre | him with gifts--jewels and silks, horses, a scarlet daïs,
2370 XXXIX(*) | chapters of the Koran.) Al Simiri is mentioned by name in
2371 Pre | two "denique sit quod vis, simplex dumtaxat et unum."]~and
2372 Pre | arien contre l'effroyante simplicité de l'esprit sémitique, excluant
2373 XXXV(*) | by those to whom its very simplicity made it more poignant than
2374 XXXIX | and heed her moan.~From Sinai Moses brings thee wealth
2375 XXIV | of flame,~Though I, the singèd moth, for very shame,~Dare
2376 XXI(*) | discomforts of seasickness. With singular generosity he sent the defaulting
2377 Pre | démêler. L'origine de se singulier genre de poésie est une
2378 XVIII | leave the cell to faces sinister.~Oh Khizr, whose happy feet
2379 XVI | not,~Heart and soul would sink to the common lot--~All
2380 XVIII | Paradise,~His mercy is for sinners; hence and pray~Where wine
2381 VIII(*) | Dijon, Sallin et Dolles,~Les sires et les fils aînés?~Où autant
2382 XXI(*) | and in making gifts to his sister's children, and set forth
2383 XXX | ALL hail, Shiraz, hail! oh site without peer!~May God be
2384 XI(*) | that we are like to one who sits and dreams upon the banks
2385 XXX(*) | thousand are assembled there, sitting with fans in their hands
2386 XXX(*) | a charming garden. It is situated near the source of the Ruknabad.
2387 Pre | cypress-trees. When, some sixty years after the poet's death,
2388 XXX(*) | well-built town of a great size, a wide celebrity, and a
2389 XXII | fair.~Though limned by most skilful fingers, no pictures please~
2390 XXXIX(*) | the fame of whose great skill had reached Bengal. This
2391 XXI(*) | down their backs, and the skins of gazelles on their shoulders--
2392 Pre | number of them that I have slain must reach 800."~After his
2393 XVIII | XVIII~* SLAVES of thy shining eyes are
2394 Pre | of Bedr--"Thou didst not slay them, but God slew them,
2395 XVIII(*) | forty nights in it without sleeping, on the fortieth night Al
2396 I | of musk in her hair that sleeps~In the night of her hair-yet
2397 Pre | didst not slay them, but God slew them, and thou didst not
2398 XXIV | feast-until Love's secret slips~From her, as from the candle'
2399 XXXV(*) | tremble to think into what a slough of mysticism the innocent
2400 XXI(*) | yah Ali!' They all had slung from their shoulders the
2401 Pre | whom he had only heard, the smallest incidents of his time, the
2402 IV | grief afflicted, with the smart~Of absence, and is bitter
2403 XXVI | fickleness~Of Fortune's smile, for on her stalk's green
2404 XXXVII(*)| an antidote, chiefly to snake bites. Topsell, for instance,
2405 XXXII(*) | Western poet: "Those crisped snaky golden locks," and again, "
2406 IX | round thee like grain, and snare~The Bird of joy when it
2407 XLIII | arise and soar, from the snares of the world set free.~When
2408 Pre | from ours, there are yet snatches in his songs of that melody
2409 Pre | into power and vanish "like snow upon the desert's dusty
2410 Pre | poet is to read into him so-called deeper meanings, even when
2411 XLIII | Paradise,~Shall arise and soar, from the snares of the
2412 Pre | he attained also to the society of princes; a friend of
2413 V | with blood and broil,~Those soft-voiced Lulis for whom we sigh;~
2414 XXIV | mine~In all the taverns! my soiled robe lies here,~There my
2415 XXVIII | Hast thou forgotten, when a sojourner~Within the tavern gates
2416 II(*) | que cette coupe était le soleil qui voit toute chose; d'
2417 VIII(*) | bound him to himself by a solemn treaty. "Am I not thy Lord
2418 Pre | around them to look for some solid platform on which to build
2419 II(*) | Djem n'avait point la tête solide, et, comme it faisait des
2420 Pre | of the tulip uplifted in solitary places, the fleeting shadows
2421 Pre | that he is imputing to the son-in-law of the Prophet beliefs which
2422 IX | quailed in the shade~Oh Song-bird Fortune, the toils are laid,~
2423 III | for thee may weep and bum~Sonnets and broken words, sweet
2424 VIII(*) | of the same theme:--~"Où sont de Vienne et de Grenobles~
2425 Pre | governor of Yezd; but no sooner was the Tartar army called
2426 Pre | believed by some to be a sorcerer, and by others a holy worker
2427 XXXIX | Forth comes the caravan of sorcery~When from those gates the
2428 XXVI | Be turned full harsh and sorrowful on me,~I care not so that
2429 Pre | bosom cannot endure the sorrows of exile; let me return
2430 XXXVII(*)| bezoar stone. The original sort was the lapis bezoar orientale
2431 Pre | have had recourse to these Sortes Hafizianæ. It is related
2432 Pre | sécheresse de l'Islamisme que le soufisme a fait fortune chez les
2433 XVI | presence alone they have sought--~Love at least exists; yet
2434 Pre | the house of Muzaffar had sounded--Tamberlain and his Tartar
2435 VIII(*) | poursuivants?~Ont-ils bien bouté sous le nez? . . .~Autant en
2436 Pre | borders of Fars, overran Southern Persia and took Shiraz.
2437 II(*) | mis au courant, et il me souvient qu'il y a deux ans, prenant
2438 XXXVI | dies;~Darius, Alexander's sovereignty,~I sing of these no more.~
2439 XXI(*) | a small plot of ground, sow wheat or plant flowers,
2440 Pre | if you were to become a sower of discord, not I alone
2441 XVII | the harvest his hands have sown.~Leave me the hope of a
2442 XXX(*) | the Old Mosque; it is as spacious and as well built as any
2443 Pre | digging the foundations with spades of silver. Abu Ishac shared
2444 XIX | me seemed kind--my foeman spared me not~Though one poor robe
2445 I(*) | beasts in the country we are speaking of. The flesh is very good
2446 XXI(*) | and are looked upon as specialty holy and protected by Allah
2447 XXI(*) | Sometimes they will demand a specific sum of money from a rich
2448 Pre | occasional bandying of sharp speeches, in which the King usually
2449 VIII | to thee when thy verses speed~From lip to lip, and the
2450 Pre | him," he sighs, "all too speedily--alas for the violence and
2451 XXIII | wisdomless and profitless I spend!~The nightingale his own
2452 XXVI | wonder; Time's revolving sphere~Over a thousand lives like
2453 XXX(*) | are my winding-sheet, some spices with which my corpse will
2454 Pre | cheek denotes the cloud of spirits that encircles his throne;
2455 II(*) | Djemshid, au temps de sa splendeur, possé-dait une coupe magique
2456 II(*) | de poisson. Entre autres splendeurs, le roi Djemshid, au temps
2457 V(*) | possibility, when I beheld the splendour of true beauty with different
2458 XXIII | morn~Unveils the rose's splendour-with his torn~And jealous breast
2459 V | Turkish robbers fall on the spoil,~They have robbed and plundered
2460 XIII | Reverberates the softly spoken word,~So echoes of desire
2461 V | curtains of modesty.~When thou spokest ill of thy servant 'twas
2462 XVI(*) | boughs of this tree will spontaneously bend down to the hand of
2463 XXIII | Enwrapped her; pure she was, spotless of sin;~Fair as the moon
2464 VII(*) | these green and fertile spots, full of violets in the
2465 VIII | Alike for all is the banquet spread,~And drunk and sober are
2466 XV | nightingale of mirth~Pipes in the Spring-awakened garden ground,~In Hafiz'
2467 Pre | and of India, it was also springing into existence in the West.
2468 XLII | dust of which friendship springs--~Who has laid waste that
2469 Pre | among Persian writers have sprung. Like Sa'di and Jami and
2470 X(*) | Divan, and is believed to be spurious; but it is printed in most
2471 XI(*) | waters are led into a great square lake, a month's journey
2472 XXVI(*) | and drawing a dagger, she stabbed herself and fell dead across
2473 XXXIX(*) | miracles with his hand and his staff, but Al Samiri was unable
2474 I(*) | tail like the gazelle's, a stag's hair of a very coarse
2475 Pre | Dabistan there are four stages in the manifestation of
2476 XXXIII | ablaze. Would'st hide the stain~Of my heart's blood? Blood-red
2477 XVI | hast wrought,~But bearing a stained or an honoured name,~The
2478 XIII | cheer!~My heart, sad hermit, stains the cloister floor~With
2479 XXVI | Fortune's smile, for on her stalk's green shaft~She bears
2480 II(*) | prenant le thé dans un café de Stamboul avec un sage d'Isfahan,
2481 Pre | indeed, that it was not stamped out by the Arab conquerors,
2482 III(*) | verily he is a mighty king."~Stanzas 5 and 6.--The accepted explanation
2483 XXXI | scarlet chalice up~For the star-pale narcissus to adore.~The
2484 XXI(*) | apartments, where those who go stark-naked, and are looked upon as
2485 XXIV(*) | into the ode, in which he stated that the dangerous lines
2486 XLIII | mine eyes delight in thy stately grace!~Thou art the goal
2487 Pre | commonly drawn from the statement that to-morrow we die, Hafiz
2488 Pre | real opinions, and their statements are therefore both confused
2489 Pre | Daulat Shah, for instance, states that "he turned always to
2490 Pre | warrior prince Mansur was his staunch friend. He appears to have
2491 I | her hair-yet no fragrance stays~The tears of my heart's
2492 XXV | Where thou art thy lady stays--~The tale of separation
2493 Pre | reputation in such good stead.~Hafiz was married and he
2494 XXXI | hast said: "The Present steals away~The Future comes, and
2495 VIII | For Assaf's pomp, and the steeds of the wind,~And the speech
2496 XXVIII | waning moon did lie,~And Steep had drawn his coif about
2497 Pre | lord.~Abu Ishac had not steered his bark into quiet waters.
2498 XXIV | stream may rear her lofty stem,~Watering her roots with
2499 Pre | that he welded them into a stepping-stone to that which shall not
2500 Pre | in the crook of thy polo stick, and the whole world be
2501 XXX | head at her feet--~When stillness unbroken around me lies,~
2502 XXV | flaming coronet,~The cruel stinging thorns all men forget,~The
2503 Pre | were to ask for a small stipend, would my request be tolerated?"
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