Category Archives: translations from divan-e-hafez

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/44419585″ iframe=”true” /] When the image of your face passes the garden of the eye, The heart in search of a glance comes to the window of sight. Come, because to honor your arrival with gift I have moved … Continue reading →

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veil the rose faced mistress with musk of hyacinth; i mean- cover her cheeks, and destroy a world! awaken the languorous narcissus to play, and then have envy put her lively eye to sleep! fling the sweat from your face … Continue reading →

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Life has passed in earnest desire and barren outcome; O son, pass my cup of wine that you may attain wisdom! What sugar like souls have known contentment in this city- Royal falcons of the path come to this station … Continue reading →

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from the beginning, the one worthy of the grace of fortune, until the end, holds the cup of desire as the soul’s friend. that very moment i was about to repent of wine- i said, “if this vine bears fruit, … Continue reading →

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come sufi, and we will rip off the cloak of hypocrisy, and draw a line defacing this portrait of fraud. we will pledge the alms and offerings of the monastery- we will wash the cloak of deceit with wine-house water. … Continue reading →

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my service in the wine-house began a long time ago, in the robe of poverty working for those of great fortune. i lie in ambush for the opportune moment to snare the pheasant of graceful walk with the net of … Continue reading →

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Last night, I vowed to drive passion for her face from my mind. She said; “where are the chains for me to manage this Majnun?” I likened her stature to the cypress- she drew back in anger. Friends, the beloved … Continue reading →

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