Hafez on Friendship and loyalty
55 ghazals
- Ghazal 5: My heart is slipping from my hand; you who have hearts, for God's sake help!
- Ghazal 12: The moon of beauty takes its light from your shining face;
- Ghazal 18: Cupbearer, may the coming of the festival be blessed for you,
- Ghazal 43: The garden court gives delight and the company of friends is sweet;
- Ghazal 83: If a fault came from the hand of your musky tress, it is past;
- Ghazal 102: Last night the wind brought news of the friend who has travelled;
- Ghazal 103: The day of union with those who loved us, may it be remembered;
- Ghazal 105: If the Sufi drinks wine in measure, may it do him good;
- Ghazal 115: Plant the tree of friendship, for it bears the heart's desire as fruit;
- Ghazal 122: Whoever keeps faith with the people of God,
- Ghazal 123: The minstrel of love has a wondrous tune and melody;
- Ghazal 141: Did you see, O heart, what the grief of love did once again,
- Ghazal 156: In beauty, character and faithfulness no one comes near our friend;
- Ghazal 158: I, and denial of wine? What sort of tale is that?
- Ghazal 169: We see no friendship in anyone; what has become of the friends?
- Ghazal 182: You wrote no account of how you are, and some days have passed;
- Ghazal 186: If the wine seller grants the need of the rends,
- Ghazal 206: Before this you had more thought for your lovers than now;
- Ghazal 211: Last night he was coming, and his cheek was aflame;
- Ghazal 218: Whoever in pre-eternity was found worthy of the bounty of fortune,
- Ghazal 224: Happy the heart that does not always go where the eye leads,
- Ghazal 241: Companions, remember the comrade of your nights;
- Ghazal 252: If life lasts, I will reach the tavern once again,
- Ghazal 269: O heart, your own well-wishing fortune is companion enough for the journey;
- Ghazal 273: If you are a kindly comrade, be true to your pledge;
- Ghazal 274: In the season of the tulip take the cup, and be free of hypocrisy;
- Ghazal 292: I swear by the pomp, the rank and the glory of Shah Shuja
- Ghazal 309: The play of love, and youth, and wine the colour of ruby;
- Ghazal 314: Last night the languor of your eye carried me away,
- Ghazal 320: Last night with a flood of tears I was barring the road of sleep;
- Ghazal 325: If the dust from the sole of my beloved's foot comes to my hand,
- Ghazal 333: At the strangers' evening prayer, when I begin to weep,
- Ghazal 351: God forbid that I should give up wine in the season of the rose;
- Ghazal 355: For the present I see the wisdom of the hour in this:
- Ghazal 360: If I go from this ruined halting place towards home,
- Ghazal 367: I have a ruling from the Magian elder, and it is an old saying,
- Ghazal 369: We looked to our friends for friendship;
- Ghazal 386: For God's sake, sit less often with the wearers of the cloak,
- Ghazal 389: Like the rose, at every moment, catching your scent,
- Ghazal 392: Do you know what good fortune is? To see the face of the friend;
- Ghazal 398: O light of my eyes, there is something to be said: listen.
- Ghazal 400: My tall, coquettish, artful beloved
- Ghazal 403: Drink ruby wine and look at the faces of the moon-browed;
- Ghazal 405: By the life of the elder of the tavern and the right of his company,
- Ghazal 406: He said: you went out to watch the new moon;
- Ghazal 445: You who have everything in the world that can be desired,
- Ghazal 447: Come, do not go on bearing this grudge against us,
- Ghazal 450: For a long time now you have kept us anxious;
- Ghazal 454: From the lane of the friend comes the breeze of the New Year wind;
- Ghazal 457: I have made a thousand efforts that you might be my friend,
- Ghazal 468: Who will carry a message from me, a beggar, to the kings:
- Ghazal 474: I am devoted to you, my dear, and I know that you know,
- Ghazal 476: Breeze of the morning of good fortune, by the sign that you know,
- Ghazal 484: Perhaps you should sit down at the water's edge with your longing;
- Ghazal 492: A greeting, like the pleasant scent of friendship,