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2504 XVIII | their way; I scarce can stir.~Ah, loose me not! ah, set
2505 II | Irem's magic garden slept,~Stirring the hyacinth's purple tresses
2506 XXXVII(*)| concretion found in the stomach of some animals, formed
2507 I(*) | much from the wayfarers who stopped at their gates, and they
2508 VI | the grape with red wine stored!~Beside a river seat thee
2509 XXI(*) | left the port a violent storm arose, and persuaded the
2510 Pre | had learnt from poets and story-tellers--"Behold the world is as
2511 XXXII | XXXII~* UPON a branch of the straight cypress-tree~Once more the
2512 Pre | melody,"[1] and in the same strain Hafiz sings of "the Imperial
2513 XXXVIII | reply~To one whose life is straitened with desire?~When I am dead,
2514 XXI(*) | tavern doors. From these straits he was rescued by two friendly
2515 Pre | returned, captured Shiraz by a stratagem, and again established himself
2516 Pre | again: "Last night Hafiz strayed into the tavern, and it
2517 XV | wounded full sore~Valiance and strength may enter in; return!~And
2518 Pre | but Dante found it in that strenuous personal faith which is
2519 IX | comrades shine,~And I too, stretching my hand to the wine,~On
2520 XXII | and winds from a flower strewn place,~Without her bright
2521 XXIX | beneath a secret pain--~Oh stricken heart! joy shall return
2522 XXXI(*) | followers. The fast is so strictly observed, especially by
2523 XXII | to my Lady's side I may strive and win,~Nor garden, nor
2524 XXV(*) | one a thing for which he strives with sufficient earnestness.
2525 Pre | some quality which shall be stronger than death? But if this
2526 Pre | provinces of the Khalifate their stronghold. It is not unreasonable
2527 Pre | one whose reason is not strongly seated venture to study
2528 XIX(*) | him, when in his desperate struggle with existence he was forced
2529 Pre | Hafiz, the laugh of the strutting partridge? Little considered
2530 Pre | robe of honour and a belt studded with jewels.~Worn out before
2531 Pre | under what Sufi doctor Hafiz studied. As a young man, however,
2532 Pre | artificial aids for the subduing of consciousness, such as
2533 Pre | revelry by a second, and subjected to the hard rule of asceticism
2534 Pre | the virtues of exaggerated submission, saps the root of a faith
2535 Pre | life. Although he never submitted to any strict monastic rule,
2536 Pre | their attitude, and for submitting to the observances enjoined
2537 Pre | tallies with Abu Ishac's subsequent history, and points to a
2538 XXXVII(*)| also applied to various substances held as antidotes, especially
2539 XXXIV(*) | angels, I am going to place a substitute on earth; they said, Wilt
2540 Pre | Arabs; but if he did not succeed in indicating a satisfactory
2541 XVIII(*) | passed by metempsychosis successively through all three. He discovered
2542 I(*) | regarded as the rightful successor to the Khalifate. Hafiz
2543 Pre | Zoroaster which the Prophet's successors silenced but did not destroy.
2544 II(*) | lost, he found himself on a sudden at the gates of this city,
2545 Pre | comes towards the end will suddenly perceive a nature of wonderful
2546 X | thy delight, for kisses sue,~Fresh and afresh and new
2547 XXXIX | runs this song of mine.~The sugar-loving birds of distant Ind,~Except
2548 XI(*) | of a better, I venture to suggest the following: the Garden
2549 XXV(*) | encouraged by this fortunate suggestion, continued on his way, and
2550 XV(*) | proverb extraordinarily suggestive of the clear, deep, Eastern
2551 XXVIII | the wine's self-pressed my suit,~And filled the morn with
2552 Pre | skull to be cleft in two." A summary manner, one would think,
2553 XXVI | Mosalla's fair pleasaunce,~Summon me back when I would seek
2554 Pre | threshold he serves me with a summons and hurries me back into
2555 XXX | wind that blows from the sun-rising,~What news of the maid with
2556 III(*) | opposite to the sun so that the sunbeams fell through it at dawn,
2557 Pre | division between Shi'ite and Sunni sprang into being, the Shi'
2558 I(*) | both as the head of the Sunnis and because he was the cause
2559 XXXIV(*) | angels acknowledged the superiority of Adam after God had made
2560 XXI(*) | influence over the ignorant and superstitious Persians of all classes,
2561 I(*) | preachers of the Prophet supplanted the priests of Zoroaster,
2562 II | comes but to those~That suppliant on the dusty threshold lie.~
2563 XVI(*) | fruits, and that it will supply the blessed not only with
2564 XIX(*) | the Tartar invasion, and supported a larger population. The
2565 Pre | better known by his poetical surname of Hafiz, was born in Shiraz
2566 XVI(*) | dates, and other fruits of surprising bigness, and of tastes unknown
2567 XXX(*) | lies in a plain; gardens surround it on every side; and five
2568 XIX(*) | is said that the country surrounding the town was far more thoroughly
2569 Pre | disposition of spirit which surrounds with a nimbus of inert sentiment
2570 Pre | remained alive; Mansur's survivors were put to the sword.~Through
2571 XXXV(*) | spring of the year 1853. I suspect from internal evidence that
2572 XL(*) | into a great mountain and suspended by chains over an abyss.
2573 Pre | poet, but I have a shrewd suspicion that the Cupbearer brought
2574 VI | a river seat thee on the sward;~It floweth past-so flows
2575 XXIII | realms of beauty she bore sway.~But all the joy that Hafiz'
2576 XXII | grace like a flower that sways,~Are nought without kisses
2577 Pre | the vengeance of God in sweeping pestilence and resistless
2578 XIII | mournful story from thy zither sweeps.~Lo, not at any time I lent
2579 XVI | Neither shade from the sweet-fruited trees could be bought~By
2580 XXX(*) | bring with them fruits and sweetmeats, and when the congregation
2581 VI | water clear,~A song that swells and dies upon the ear,~These
2582 XXXIX | she is so fair to see!~Ah, swerve not from the path of righteousness~
2583 XVII | Or less or more~I have swerved from my path--keep thou
2584 VI | thy life away,~So sweetly, swiftly, fleets our little day--~
2585 Pre | boundless surface." Some fish swimming in the shallow water heard
2586 XI | Compassionate Mercy were~But empty syllables and meaningless.~The Zealot
2587 Pre | Mahommad's teaching.~Baron Sylvestre de Sacy suggested the following
2588 Pre | which they have attached symbolic meanings, is the only way
2589 Pre | veiling it with exquisite symbolism, and throwing round it a
2590 Pre | sometimes they reveal." The symbols used by each writer are
2591 Pre | from the touch of human sympathies which are, when all is said
2592 Pre | Sufiism. He understood and sympathised with the bold heresy of
2593 XVIII(*) | Stanza 3.--"Erghwan," the Syringa Persica or Persian lilac.
2594 XIX(*) | destroying the irrigating system, completely changing the
2595 III(*) | story is told thus by Al Ta'labi, in his Stories of
2596 I(*) | gazelle. It has feet and tail like the gazelle's, a stag'
2597 II(*) | hommes marchaient dans la taille de jouvenceaux: de quinze
2598 XXXVII | the breath of sighs!~No tainted eye shall gaze upon her
2599 II(*) | dried-up pond called the Talab i Djemshid, into which the
2600 II(*) | Cup-bearer to silence their idle talk with the wine of divine
2601 XXXVII(*)| Voyage to the South Seas," talks about "the becunia and other
2602 Pre | relations with the two towns tallies with Abu Ishac's subsequent
2603 Pre | considered be the clutching talons of the falcon of death."~
2604 Pre | of Muzaffar had sounded--Tamberlain and his Tartar hordes had
2605 III | fly;~Lest in the dust thy tameless wings should lie,~Broken
2606 Pre | world has no external or tangible existence; all that is,
2607 II(*) | quelle date au juste, mais 'tant qu'il regna, it n'y eut
2608 XVII | the tavern where thou hast tarried late.~And if thou hast worshipped
2609 II(*) | conversation tomba de la tasse de thé à la coupe de Djemshid,
2610 XXI(*) | and coloured strings and tassels."He goes on to say: "Most
2611 XXI | Thy many-coloured rags and tattered gear.~Full easy seemed the
2612 Pre | meditating an expedition against Tauris, and opened it at the following
2613 XXI(*) | upon the dusty steps of the tavern--the place of instruction
2614 XIX | drink deep!~Disciple of the Tavern-priest am I;~The pious Sheikh may
2615 XXIV | like to mine~In all the taverns! my soiled robe lies here,~
2616 XXXIV(*) | knowledge but what thou teachest us, for thou art knowing
2617 Pre | that he cannot receive the teachings of true wisdom until he
2618 Pre | works of a man of ascetic temperament. With all due deference
2619 Pre | in other words, that he tempered his orthodoxy with the freer
2620 VI | and the beggar, give~The temple of the grape with red wine
2621 II(*) | splendeurs, le roi Djemshid, au temps de sa splendeur, possé-dait
2622 XL(*) | determined to expose them also to temptation, that they might learn how
2623 XXXIV | Father Adam went astray~Tempted by one poor grain of corn!
2624 Pre | appetites are not the same.~The tendency in dealing with a mystical
2625 Pre | himself. This is the sum and tenor of all morality, and this
2626 II(*) | inhabitant, at which being terrified, he stayed no longer than
2627 Pre | his power is great and his territories extensive. His army exceeds
2628 II(*) | pauvre Djem n'avait point la tête solide, et, comme it faisait
2629 II(*) | abandonna; un serpent à trois~tétes, nommé Zohab, vint de l'
2630 Pre | in finding in the Koran texts in support of their teaching.
2631 Pre | friend and panegyrist of theirs could have renounced all
2632 Pre | magination étant montée sur ce thème, et les esprits étant faussés
2633 XXI(*) | historical rather than a theological document. It is related
2634 Pre | excluant par la rigueur de sa théologie toute devotion particulière,
2635 | thereof
2636 Pre | house of the Vizir-induced thereto by a cogent argument. In
2637 | Thereupon
2638 XXXIV | methought,~Moulded a cup therewith while all men slept.~Oh
2639 VIII | VIII~* THF rose has flushed red, the
2640 XXIV | wine.~With dust my heart is thick, that should be clear,~A
2641 Pre | himself fighting in the thickest of the battle, sent a message
2642 XXXIII | the key,~Are still what thieves can neither break nor steal;~
2643 XI(*) | the divine Paradise. To my thinking, Hafiz takes the one as
2644 Pre | possibilities which every man who thinks must know: "Surely the soul
2645 I | and bring~To lips that are thirsting the bowl they praise,~For
2646 XI | meaningless.~The Zealot thirsts for draughts of Kausar's
2647 XIX(*) | the Persian litany of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
2648 XVIII(*) | him the art of poetry. For thirty-nine mornings he walked beneath
2649 XXXVIII | wait~Thy coming, and the thorn bears flowers instead~Of
2650 V(*) | Joseph and Zuleikha by a thorough-going Western mystic: "By reason
2651 XIX(*) | surrounding the town was far more thoroughly irrigated before the Tartar
2652 Pre | assail every man who turns a thoughtful eye upon life and its conditions,
2653 XXII | and dalliance sweet;~If thousands of voices sang not the rose'
2654 XI | raise dispute!~Although His thrall shall miss the road and
2655 XI | fettered life hangs on a single thread--~Some comfort for thy present
2656 Pre | results. The chief of the threatened quarter got wind of the
2657 XXXVII | laugh and Heaven's dome~Thrill with an answering echo ere
2658 Pre | exquisite symbolism, and throwing round it a cloud of charming
2659 II(*) | plus que la coupe du roi de Thulé, c'est pour ça qu'il n'y
2660 XXVII | saw and vanished, and the timid foal,~Good Fortune, slipped
2661 XXVI(*) | I have seen companies of tiny tulips shining like jewels
2662 Pre | praises of which he was never tired of singing, and on the banks
2663 V | nor jewel nor mole nor the tiring-maid's art.~Brave tales of singers
2664 Pre | his compatriots under the titles of the Tongue of the Hidden
2665 XIX(*) | of his orthodoxy had been tom from him, when in his desperate
2666 Pre | he used to distribute 200 tomans daily among the poor scholars
2667 II(*) | nommé Habib, la conversation tomba de la tasse de thé à la
2668 Pre | The garden contains the tombs of many devout Persians
2669 XXXIV(*) | Babylonian confusion of tongues and the dispersal of the
2670 XXXVII(*)| chiefly to snake bites. Topsell, for instance, in his book
2671 XXXIV | true fire~Which makes the torchlight shadows dance in rings,~
2672 XXXIV(*) | the angel of death, who tore the seven handfuls from
2673 Pre | condemned to death with horrible tortures by the Khalif of Baghdad
2674 Pre | thing and mean something totally different, the vagueness
2675 II(*) | maladie, ni vicillesse, et tous les hommes marchaient dans
2676 X | new!~Then with thy love to toy with thee,~Rest thee, ah,
2677 XIX(*) | reservoir of which no other trace remains, and it is said
2678 Pre | they shall return, may be traced to the same source."~The
2679 Pre | Biography of the Persian Poets traces back mysticism~[1. Journal
2680 XXX(*) | admirably arranged; each trade has its own bazaar. The
2681 Pre | entirely borne out by other traditions, and his poems do not seem
2682 Pre | desert's dusty face." Pitiful tragedies, great rejoicings, the fall
2683 XXIII | and Winter follow in their trail.~Dear were the days which
2684 XVI(*) | to them with or without trailing clouds of human approbation,
2685 Pre | adds M. de Sacy, "had been transferred to Persia, there is every
2686 Pre | mysteries which sometimes they translate by an enigma and sometimes
2687 Pre | the number of his European translators shows that his uncle's curse
2688 XIII | there burns a living flame,~Transpiercing Death's impenetrable door.~
2689 XXI(*) | to Mahmud Shah, who was transported by the beauty of the verses
2690 XVI(*) | bridled and adorned with rich trappings, which will burst forth
2691 XXI | the dust?~Wash white that travel-stained sad robe of thine!~Where
2692 XXI(*) | of dervishes with whom he travelled, from which it would appear
2693 XXVI | would seek heart's ease,~Travelling afar; what though Love's
2694 Pre | zones he found him not. He traversed the land and the sea and
2695 XXX(*) | the highroad to Isfahan, traversing, at the distance of a mile
2696 XXVI | forbidden draught~Perhaps a treasure-trove is hid away~Among those
2697 Pre | but in their hearts they treat it as an allegory. The world
2698 Pre | composing philosophical treatises," says his great Turkish
2699 XXXV(*) | Rud is River of Life. I tremble to think into what a slough
2700 III(*) | when she saw the seal she trembled and bowed down, because
2701 XII | Where wilt thou hide, oh trembling heart, fleeing in~Such mad
2702 II(*) | l'Arabie et lui prit son tréne; it s'enfuit dans l'Inde
2703 II | Stirring the hyacinth's purple tresses curled,~The wind of morning
2704 Pre | white!" he laments, and tries to warm his old blood with
2705 XIII | drunken brain~Praise God! who trieth not His slave in vain;~Nor
2706 Pre | the conqueror to "march in triumph through Persepolis." Courage
2707 II(*) | abandonna; un serpent à trois~tétes, nommé Zohab, vint
2708 VIII(*) | leurs gens privés,~Hérauts, trompettes, poursuivants?~Ont-ils bien
2709 XXXI | thrown away?~In Sha'aban the troops of Grief disband,~And crown
2710 Pre | the West. The songs of the Troubadours were avowedly intended to
2711 XXV | full, thy days be fair!~Trouble and sickness from my breast
2712 Pre | sheltered him, he foresaw the troubles that were coming upon it
2713 Pre | Heaven's wheel, Wrestler, try not a throw~Drink steadfastly
2714 XXVI(*) | have seen companies of tiny tulips shining like jewels among
2715 Pre | his eyes upon a yet more tumultuous world. Both were driven
2716 XIX | plain, whither the bird with tuneful throat~Has brought Spring'
2717 X(*) | to a soft and well-nigh tuneless air which sounds like dream
2718 Pre | is unknown. He fell upon turbulent times. His delicate love-songs
2719 V(*) | Early Adventures.~In Turkestan there was formerly an institution
2720 Pre | a succession of wars and turmoils, there is little to be learnt
2721 XLIII | man.~When to my grave thou turnest thy blessed feet,~Wine and
2722 XXIX | to-morrow pass, before~The turning wheel give me my heart's
2723 I(*) | but no horns. It has four tusks, two below and two above,
2724 III(*) | kerit of Baghdad was worth a twentieth part of a gold piece.)~Put
2725 XXVI(*) | reigned one hundred and twenty years. Bahman, another member
2726 Pre | with Only 3000 or 4000 men, twice charged into the heart of
2727 V | bowers of Mosalla where roses twine.~They have filled the city
2728 X | round thy life the vine is twined;~Drink I for elsewhere what
2729 Pre | man.[1] The whole book is twisted after this fashion into
2730 XXXIV | Truth reaches his ears,~For two-and-seventy jangling creeds he hears,~
2731 XIX(*) | narrow-eyed" Tartar robbers as types of cruelty. Just as the
2732 XXXI | to adore.~The long-drawn tyranny of grief shall pass,~Parting
2733 XXIV(*) | and cited him before the Ulema as an infidel. But Hafiz;
2734 Pre | standard, and a Chinese umbrella; and Timur in return sent
2735 Pre | poems do not seem to the unbiased reader to be the works of
2736 XXIV | grief comes from my heart unbid,~And turns mine eyes into
2737 XXX | her feet--~When stillness unbroken around me lies,~The vision
2738 XXI(*) | dervish habit was not wholly uncalled for: "They were a picturesque
2739 XXXV | from mine eyes tears flow unceasingly,~I think on them whose rose
2740 Pre | indeed if he succeeded in unchaining the spirit of his disciple
2741 XL | hopes may reach their goal unchecked,~Throw branches of wild
2742 Pre | a certain day one of his uncles was engaged in composing
2743 XXVIII | thou laid'st aright~The uncut gems of Hafiz' inmost thought,~
2744 Pre | feasting."~Sufiism apart, an undercurrent of mysticism runs through
2745 XIII | the wise, thou shalt not understand--~Behold the fault is thine,
2746 XXXIX(*) | return of Moses, Al Samiri, understanding the founder's art, put them
2747 Pre | a one reads the leaf and understands not the meaning thereof."
2748 Pre | presented to him by Sufiism. He understood and sympathised with the
2749 XVIII(*) | at night he kept watch, undismayed by the terrible apparition
2750 Pre | all religions, is still unexplained. Some have supposed that
2751 XXVI | the changes that thy days unfold~Shall rouse thy wonder;
2752 VII | tale of April the meadows unfold--~Ah, foolish for future
2753 XXXII(*) | entangling and entrapping the unfortunate lover. Her long locks are
2754 XXVI | care not so that Time's unfriendly glance~Still from my Lady'
2755 Pre | Kerman and renounce this unhappy city." And Ahmed went.~Shah
2756 XVI | grief,~Shall I cry aloud to unheeding ears?~Mourn and be silent!
2757 Pre | himself of the errors of the uninitiated. From Sheikh Mahmud, perhaps,
2758 Pre | Sufiism," he says, "is to unite by a weak chain of doctrine,
2759 Pre | when man is completely united with God), what matters
2760 II(*) | magique où il voyait tout l'univers et tout ce qui s'y passe.
2761 Pre | dilemma, it is at least unjust to accuse him of having
2762 | unlike
2763 | unlikely
2764 V | seek;~No wisdom of ours has unlocked that gate,~And locked to
2765 XXVI | grape I stand confessed!~Unloose, oh friend, the knot of
2766 XXV(*) | left eye, or to hear an unlucky word on setting out from
2767 Pre | orthodox, and he was not unmindful of the debt he owed him. "
2768 Pre | favourite of princes enjoys unmixed popularity, especially when
2769 Pre | Hafiz accepted neither unmodified by the other. "Eat and drink,"
2770 Pre | they stood, and then return unmoved to his devotions. Shah Shudja
2771 XIX | purity-art sorrowing~Like an unopened bud, oh heart of mine?~The
2772 Pre | show that Abu Ishac was not unpopular even in Shiraz: on a certain
2773 Pre | their stronghold. It is not unreasonable to suppose that a mysticism,
2774 II | secret lies,~Remote and unrevealed his dwelling-place.~Oh Saki,
2775 VI | and earth before me God unroll,~Back to thy village still
2776 Pre | played the prudent, if rather unromantic part of the Vicar of Bray.
2777 XXXV | That held the key to thine unspoken woes--~Forget them not!~ ~
2778 XXIX | river of mortality~Round the unstable house of Life doth roar,~
2779 XXXVII | No glass but that of an unsullied heart~Shall dare reflect
2780 XXV | great-unnumbered were his tears, unsung;~Praise him that sets an
2781 XL | Hafiz, thy life has sped untouched by care,~With me towards
2782 Pre | vis, simplex dumtaxat et unum."]~and has partly been read
2783 XL | let not thine hours fleet~Unvalued; may each minute as it goes~
2784 XXIII | kisses of the wind, the morn~Unveils the rose's splendour-with
2785 V | thy words were sweet;~Not unwelcomed the bitterest answer fell~
2786 Pre | other hand, he was equally unwilling to despise the good things
2787 Pre | difficult, and sometimes unwise, to distinguish from an
2788 Pre | influence of true love, rising upward from these things begins
2789 I(*) | downwards and the other upwards. It is a very pretty creature.
2790 Pre | institui, currente rota cur urceus exit," and perhaps the advice
2791 Pre | the servants of the Vizir useful allies against the officers
2792 Pre | spirit of his disciple from useless prejudice, it may be admitted
2793 | using
2794 Pre | speeches, in which the King usually came off second best, did
2795 Pre | living, Shah Shudja did his utmost to secure the welfare of
2796 Pre | disappears." These are the utterances of a great poet, the imaginative
2797 Pre | of the East resemble but vaguely those of the West; and though
2798 Pre | something totally different, the vagueness of a philosophy that dares
2799 Pre | earthly things were alike vain-virtue and patriotism and the love
2800 XXXVII | shall throw.~Yea, to the Vale of Silence we must come;~
2801 XV | heart wounded full sore~Valiance and strength may enter in;
2802 Pre | who had earned a name for valour in the service of Abu Said,
2803 XXXVII(*)| llamas of Peru, was less valued. The chamois yielded German
2804 Pre | princes rise into power and vanish "like snow upon the desert'
2805 Pre | combinaison religieuse vivante et variée."[1]~Those who have written
2806 Pre | The date of his death is variously given as 1388, 1389, 1391,
2807 XXX(*) | see. The court of it is vast and paved with marble; in
2808 Pre | says, "s'est développée une vaste littérature où l'amour divin
2809 Pre | of a dealer in fruit and vegetables. "Oh disciple of the tavern!"
2810 Pre | can, in the necessity of veiling it with exquisite symbolism,
2811 Pre | is not in the Bible (this venerable book being not yet quite
2812 Pre | seat, how swift was the vengeance of God in sweeping pestilence
2813 XXXVII(*)| proper Bezoar against the venom of a Phalangie"--whatever
2814 XXXVII(*)| being approved good against Venome" and Hawkins, in his "Voyage
2815 VIII(*) | Autant en emporte le vent!"~Solomon, the type of human
2816 XXI(*) | them. Consequently no one ventures to refuse them admission
2817 Pre | Hallaj paid with his life for venturing to give voice to his opinion,
2818 Pre | qu'allégories, on en est venu à faire des poèmes réellement
2819 XXI(*) | dirty, and covered with vermin. They carried heavy iron
2820 XXVIII | bright~Array of verse on verse-hast thou forgot?~ ~
2821 V(*) | seems to have felt that his version presented some difficulties,
2822 I | ears~Whose light-freighted vessels have reached the shore?~
2823 II | it a true lover's part~To vex with bitter words his love'
2824 Pre | Johnson's contribution to this vexed question is perhaps as good
2825 VI | VI~A FLOWER-TINTED cheek, the
2826 XLII | yet no bird rejoiced,~No vibrating throat has rung with the
2827 Pre | rather unromantic part of the Vicar of Bray. The slender thread
2828 XXI(*) | given to every manner of vice. Others were half-naked
2829 II(*) | ni mort, ni maladie, ni vicillesse, et tous les hommes marchaient
2830 Pre | looked about him and saw the vicissitudes of mortal existence--nowhere
2831 Pre | sings Hafiz, "the victor of victors suffered imprisonment; guiltless,
2832 Pre | his desire the inhabitants vied with each other in their
2833 VIII(*) | same theme:--~"Où sont de Vienne et de Grenobles~Le Dauphin,
2834 II(*) | est-à-dire la gloire royale qui vient de Dieu, l'abandonna; un
2835 XVIII(*) | upon keeping his fortieth vigil. That night an old man dressed
2836 VII | VII~* FROM the garden of Heaven
2837 VIII | VIII~* THF rose has flushed red,
2838 XVII | or deepest Hell,~Fair or vile, shall appear his face.~
2839 XIX(*) | for instance, there are villages bearing names the etymology
2840 V(*) | avait donné~Paris sa grande ville,~Et qu'il me fallût quitter~
2841 VIII(*) | Stanza 4.--Compare François Villon's rough and powerful treatment
2842 II(*) | trois~tétes, nommé Zohab, vint de l'Arabie et lui prit
2843 XVIII | like the wind across a violet bed,~Before thy many lovers,
2844 Pre | lends to its followers the virtues of exaggerated submission,
2845 Pre | the East as men leading a virtuous and pure life. Even the
2846 Pre | the two "denique sit quod vis, simplex dumtaxat et unum."]~
2847 Pre | political activity; for all his visionary journeys through heaven
2848 Pre | Beatrice, perhaps of the Vita Nuova, certainly of the
2849 Pre | toute combinaison religieuse vivante et variée."[1]~Those who
2850 Pre | raffinement, d'une imagination vive et portée au quiétisme,
2851 Pre | hard and sharp, in his vivid lines; and the fortunes
2852 Pre | months in the house of the Vizir-induced thereto by a cogent argument.
2853 Pre | thee!"~One of Shah Shudja's vizirs, Hadji Kawameddin Hassan,
2854 Pre | his reflection upon the void, and that reflection is
2855 II(*) | coupe était le soleil qui voit toute chose; d'autres, que
2856 Pre | which are translated in this volume. In spite of all the favours
2857 V(*) | dirais au roi Henri:~Reprenez votre Paris,~J'aime mieux ma mie,
2858 Pre | faussés par une exégèse qui ne voulait voir partout qu'allégories,
2859 II(*) | immortels, il se crut Dieu et voulut être adoré. Aussitôt, le
2860 II(*) | cents ans; je ne saurai vous dire à quelle date au juste,
2861 XXIV | hand that sells me wine, I vow~No more the brimming cup
2862 XXXVII(*)| Venome" and Hawkins, in his "Voyage to the South Seas," talks
2863 II(*) | une coupe magique où il voyait tout l'univers et tout ce
2864 III | sound,~North winds and east waft them where they are bound,~
2865 III(*) | letter upon her breast. Wahb ibn Manabbih says that there
2866 XXXIII | waiteth helplessly,~Has waited ever, till thou heal its
2867 XXXIII | Ah, come! my heart still waiteth helplessly,~Has waited ever,
2868 XXX | dost thou bring?~Bid me not wake from my dream and arise,~
2869 Pre | de Djellaleddin Rumi, de Wali, &c. . . . Dans l'Inde et
2870 XVIII(*) | thirty-nine mornings he walked beneath the windows of Shakh-i-Nahat,
2871 VI | Enough that in the meadow wanes and grows~The shadow of
2872 XXXVII | passed,~Forget thy former wantonness, and cast~Thy shadow o'er
2873 Pre | passed undisturbed by civil war, scarcely a year in which
2874 VIII | And drunk and sober are warmed and fed.~When the feast
2875 XII | His friend's bright face warms not the enemy~When love
2876 Pre | who protected Hafiz; the warrior prince Mansur was his staunch
2877 Pre | Beyond a succession of wars and turmoils, there is little
2878 XX | desired elixir, pour~Upon this wasted heart of mine--~Bring me
2879 XXIX(*) | and the barrenness of the wastes through which their road
2880 XVIII(*) | slept, and at night he kept watch, undismayed by the terrible
2881 XXX | without peer!~May God be the Watchman before thy gate,~That the
2882 XXIV | may rear her lofty stem,~Watering her roots with tears. Ah,
2883 I | burden again and depart!"~The waves run high, night is clouded
2884 Pre | not growing or decaying, waxing or waning . . . he who,
2885 I(*) | and learnt much from the wayfarers who stopped at their gates,
2886 XXXIII | done.~Let not thy curls waylay my pilgrim soul,~As robbers
2887 Pre | compensations for his toil by the wayside. And for the rest, "Who
2888 XXXVI | no more the sweet wind's wayward choir.~Ask me of faith and
2889 V(*) | adds for the use of his weaker brethren the following comment: "
2890 XXXIX | Sinai Moses brings thee wealth untold;~Bow not thine head
2891 Pre | the saddle, and the ass wears a collar of gold about his
2892 XXX(*) | paved with marble; in hot weather it is washed with fresh
2893 XIII | birth~Of night till day I weave bright dreams of thee;~Drunk
2894 XXX(*) | and repair three times a week to the great mosque. Often
2895 Pre | favour with a king that he welcomed the accession of Shah Shudja,
2896 Pre | and in several poems he welcomes Shah Shudja's accession
2897 Pre | poet's imagination that he welded them into a stepping-stone
2898 Pre | his utmost to secure the welfare of his family before he
2899 V | ill of thy servant 'twas well--~God pardon thee! for thy
2900 XXV(*) | the Koran or some other well-accredited book (the Divan of Hafiz
2901 XXX(*) | Shiraz," he says, "is a well-built town of a great size, a
2902 XXI(*) | call luti, young men with well-dyed curls, long garments, and
2903 XXXVI(*) | Rosenzweig, is the name of a well-known Persian story which has
2904 X(*) | It is set to a soft and well-nigh tuneless air which sounds
2905 XXX(*) | inhabitants of Shiraz are well-to-do, pious, and chaste; the
2906 XXV | with soft warm feet doth wend.~The Day of Hope, hid beneath
2907 XXIII | her, oh Heart, for poor wert thou,~A humble dervish on
2908 XXVI | foundationless--then come whate'er~May come, slave to the
2909 I(*) | steal from the heretics whatsoever they possessed of worth.~"
2910 XLII | ask:~What has befallen the wheels of Time?~ ~
2911 | wherever
2912 V(*) | principally from this district. Whilst we were resting at the caravanserai
2913 I | with fears,~And eddying whirlpools clash and roar;~How shall
2914 X | street of my fairy hie,~Whisper the tale of Hafiz true,~
2915 XXXIX | for his face.~The breezes whispering round thy dwelling-place~
2916 XI(*) | The waters of the lake are whiter than silver and sweeter
2917 Pre | delights as these, and a wholehearted desire for truth, had been
2918 Pre | Mahmud, perhaps, he learnt a wholesome philosophy which enabled
2919 XXI(*) | the dervish habit was not wholly uncalled for: "They were
2920 XXXIX(*) | people, who carried on a wicked commerce with them, and
2921 XI | beside a mighty stream, wide-fed,~We sit and sing of wine
2922 X(*) | popular editions, and is as widely known as any of the poems
2923 XXVI(*) | marriage to his father's widow. Shirin promised to marry
2924 X | heart from me,~How does she wield her empery?~Paints and adorns
2925 XXVI | bears a wine-cup through the wilderness.~The murmuring stream of
2926 Pre | allegorical figure. How ever willing we may be to submit to the
2927 XL | margin of a stream, the willow's shade,~A mind inclined
2928 XVIII(*) | mornings he walked beneath the windows of Shakh-i-Nahat, at noon
2929 XXXV | of them that drank that wine--~Forget them not!~Forget
2930 Pre | upon one or two glasses of wine-as sweet as the lip of the
2931 XIX | The Healer brings joy's wine-cup--oh, drink deep!~Disciple
2932 Pre | joy into the hand of all wine-drinkers"; and in several poems he
2933 XVIII | knowest God by heart, away!~Wine-drunk, love-drunk, we inherit
2934 XXXI | out Spring's chalice flow;~Wine-red, the judas-tree shall set
2935 XVI | From the monastery to the wine-tavern doors~The way is nought~
2936 XXXI | to youth again,~And other wines from out Spring's chalice
2937 XXIII | life, now she is dead,~All wisdomless and profitless I spend!~
2938 V | the warnings of one grown wise--and grey!~The song is sung
2939 Pre | not averse from such good wishes as these from the most famous
2940 Pre | letter, couched in verse withal, was more than tolerated.
2941 XXV(*) | is impossible for Him to withhold from any one a thing for
2942 Pre | Whether or no he lived to witness the overthrow of the race
2943 Pre | Isfahan; he may even have witnessed his execution outside Persepolis. "
2944 XXXII | breast."~I will not mourn my woeful banishment,~He that has
2945 XXI | worth the army's long-drawn woes,~Worth fire and sword.~Ah,
2946 XXXV | the key to thine unspoken woes--~Forget them not!~ ~
2947 XXVI | days unfold~Shall rouse thy wonder; Time's revolving sphere~
2948 XXXIX(*) | Samiri was unable to show wonders as great as those performed
2949 Pre | an Arabic word signifying wool, and indicates that they
2950 Pre | clothe themselves in simple woollen garments. They occupy in
2951 Pre | of love unto itself in a wordless melody,"[1] and in the same
2952 XXI(*) | Round their necks they wore charms and amulets, with
2953 Pre | sorcerer, and by others a holy worker of miracles. He was condemned
2954 Pre | salvation; for it is God which worketh in you both to will and
2955 Pre | of discord shake the two worlds, mine eyes are fixed upon
2956 Pre | not suffer imprisonment or worse ills at the hands of his
2957 III(*) | told him that she was not a worshipper of the true God.) "Then
2958 XIII | Love's generous wine! the worshippers of fire~Have bowed them
2959 Pre | he sought, and lo! he was worshipping an idol. When he returned,
2960 XIII | into his lay the minstrel wove,~And filled my brain with
2961 XIX | lay was his? for 'mid the woven rope~Of song, he brought
2962 Pre | Gainst Heaven's wheel, Wrestler, try not a throw~Drink steadfastly
2963 XXXIX | world lure thee! like a wrinkled crone,~Hiding beneath her
2964 XXI(*) | with long journeying-in the wrong road.~Stanza 5.--So far
2965 XI | XI~* MIRTH, Spring, to linger
2966 XII | XII~WHERE is my ruined life,
2967 XIII | XIII~LADY that hast my heart
2968 XIV | XIV~* THE nightingale with drops
2969 XIX | XIX~* WHAT drunkenness is this
2970 XL | XL~* THE margin of a stream,
2971 XLI | XLI~THE days of Spring are here!
2972 XLIII | XLIII~* WHERE are the tidings
2973 XV | XV~* RETURN! that to a heart
2974 XVI | XVI~* WHAT is wrought in the
2975 XVII | XVII~* LAY not reproach at the
2976 XX | XX~FROM out the street of So-and-So,~
2977 XXII | XXII~THE rose is not fair without
2978 XXIII | XXIII~* My lady, that did change
2979 XXIV | XXIV~* NOT one is filled with
2980 XXIX | XXIX~* FROM Canaan Joseph shall
2981 XXV | XXV~* THE days of absence and
2982 XXVI | XXVI~* THE secret draught of
2983 XXVII | XXVII~My friend has fled! alas,
2984 XXVIII | XXVIII~* HAST thou forgotten when
2985 XXX | XXX~* ALL hail, Shiraz, hail!
2986 XXXI | XXXI~* THE breath of Dawn's musk-strewing
2987 XXXII | XXXII~* UPON a branch of the straight
2988 XXXIV | XXXIV~* LAST night I dreamed that
2989 XXXIX | XXXIX~* CYPRESS and Tulip and
2990 XXXV | XXXV~* FORGET not when dear friend
2991 XXXVI | XXXVI~* BELOVED, who has bid thee
2992 XXXVII | XXXVII~* ARISE! and fill a golden
2993 XXXVIII | XXXVIII~I CEASE not from desire
2994 Pre | the allusion is to Shah Yahya--"though while I dwelt with
2995 II(*) | adoré. Aussitôt, le Fari Yazdan, c'est-à-dire la gloire
2996 XXXIX | rhyme,~Child of a night, its year-long road shall find.~And thou
2997 XLIII | soul, like a homing bird, yearning for Paradise,~Shall arise
2998 XVII | of fare~For his mistress yearns--in the mosque Love doth
2999 Pre | a sect belonging to the Yekaneh Bina, of those whose eyes
3000 Pre | the wine of former days. "Yesterday at dawn I came upon one
3001 Pre | written while he was at Yezd--"Why should I not return
3002 XVII | garden future treasures may yield--~Ah, make the most of earth'
3003 XXXVII(*)| less valued. The chamois yielded German bezoar. "The stone,"
3004 Pre | frenzied dissipation in the younger. Whenever he was not engaged
3005 | yours
3006 Pre | perfection, and of noble youths." But such accounts as these
3007 XXVI(*) | the hero Rustum, son of Zal. It was in his reign that
3008 XIII | mournful story from thy zither sweeps.~Lo, not at any time
3009 II(*) | serpent à trois~tétes, nommé Zohab, vint de l'Arabie et lui
3010 Pre | could be, but in the seven zones he found him not. He traversed
3011 Pre | grown up, side by side with Zoroastrianism, a mysticism eminently congenial
3012 V | the minstrel knows that Zuleika came forth,~Love parting
3013 Pre | Gieb meine Jugend mir zurück!" Other poets besides Hafiz
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