*: Stanza 1.--The first line of this song, the opening poem in the Divan, is borrowed from an Arabic[...]
*: Stanza 1.--This poem has been expounded to me as a description of the poet's quest for love. In a[...]
*: Stanza 1.--King Solomon sent the lapwing or hoopoe as his messenger to Bilkis, Queen of Sheba. Th[...]
*: Verse 3.--The Persians describe the dimple in the chin of their mistress as a dangerous well fill[...]
*: Stanza 1.-When the conqueror Timur entered Shiraz it is related that he summoned Hafiz before him[...]
*: Stanza 1.--Those who have seen a Persian garden will not find it difficult to understand why it s[...]
*: Stanza 3.--When God had created man and made him wiser than the angels, he bound him to himself b[...]
*: Stanza 1.--This poem is addressed to the Vizir of Sultan Oweis of Baghdad, Hadji Kawameddin, who [...]
*: This song is not to be found in the best editions of the Divan, and is believed to be spurious; b[...]
*: Stanza 2.--I have found no explanation of these difficult lines, and, for want of a better, I ven[...]
*: Stanza 1.--Hafiz wrote this poem upon the death of his son. Stanza 3.--Rosenzweig, in his edi[...]
*: Stanza 3.--"Night is with child"--a Persian proverb extraordinarily suggestive of the clear, deep[...]
*: Stanza 2.--These lines are exceedingly mysterious, as, indeed, is the whole poem. I have looked f[...]
*: Stanza 3.--The allusion is to the expulsion of Adam from the Garden of Eden. Stanza 4.--Conce[...]
*: Stanza 1.--Blue is the Persian colour of mourning. Hafiz compares the weeping lovers, clad in rob[...]
*: Stanza 2.--See Note to Stanza i of Poem III. Stanza 5.--"Narrow-eyedness" is the exact transl[...]
*: Stanza 1.--Sir Henry Layard gives the following account of a party of dervishes with whom he trav[...]
*: This poem is said to have been written by Hafiz; upon the death of his wife.
*: Stanza 5.--Shah Shudja, as has been related in the Introduction, was not always on the best of te[...]
*: Stanza 1.--There are many ways of taking omens which are still practised by the Persians. Concern[...]
*: Stanza 2.--For Djemshid, see Note to Stanza 2 of Poem II. He was the fourth king of the First or [...]
*: Stanza 1.--According to Oriental belief, Jesus Christ's gift of healing was due to a miraculous q[...]
*: Stanza 3.--Maghilan, a thorny shrub which grows on the deserts of Arabia near to Mecca. When the [...]
*: Stanza 1.--Khizr--see Note to the third stanza of Poem XVIII. Stanza 2.--The quarter of Jafra[...]
*: Stanza 3.--The month of Sha'aban is the eighth month of the Arabic year. It is followed by Ramaza[...]
*: Stanza 3.--According to the popular science of the East, the colouring of precious stones, even o[...]
*: Stanza 1.--The story of the creation of Adam, and of the part played in it by the angels, is told[...]
*: Stanza 1.--The second line of this poem is as often quoted as any, perhaps, in the Divan: " Yàd b[...]
*: Stanza 2.--"Love and Faith," says Rosenzweig, is the name of a well-known Persian story which ha[...]
*: Stanza 4.--See Note to Stanza 4 of Poem XXXIII. The word bezoar comes from two Arabic roots w[...]
*: Stanza 1.--It is related that Ghiyasuddin Purabi, who succeeded his father to the throne of Benga[...]
*: Stanza 2.--According to Persian superstition, the smoke of burning rue has the power to avert the[...]
*: This ode is inscribed upon the tomb of Hafiz.
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