Hafez on Reunion

116 ghazals

  1. Ghazal 2: Where is right conduct, and where am I, the ruined one?
  2. Ghazal 5: My heart is slipping from my hand; you who have hearts, for God's sake help!
  3. Ghazal 7: Come, Sufi, for the cup is a clear mirror;
  4. Ghazal 11: Cupbearer, light our cup with the radiance of wine;
  5. Ghazal 12: The moon of beauty takes its light from your shining face;
  6. Ghazal 15: O holy beauty, who unties the cord of your veil?
  7. Ghazal 17: My breast has burned with the heart's fire in grief for the beloved;
  8. Ghazal 18: Cupbearer, may the coming of the festival be blessed for you,
  9. Ghazal 19: O breeze of dawn, where is the resting place of the friend?
  10. Ghazal 24: Do not ask obedience, vows or right conduct of me, the drunkard,
  11. Ghazal 27: My beloved came into the Magian temple, a cup in hand,
  12. Ghazal 30: Your tress bound a thousand hearts with a single hair;
  13. Ghazal 32: When God shaped the form of your heart-opening eyebrow,
  14. Ghazal 34: The portico of my eye's outlook is your nest;
  15. Ghazal 36: Since the tip of your tress fell into the hand of the breeze,
  16. Ghazal 38: Without the sun of your face, no light is left in my day,
  17. Ghazal 39: What need has my garden of cypress and pine?
  18. Ghazal 45: In this age, the friend who is free of fault
  19. Ghazal 53: I am one for whom the corner of the tavern is the dervish lodge;
  20. Ghazal 61: Morning breeze, if your way should take you to the friend's land,
  21. Ghazal 62: Welcome, messenger of the longing ones; give the friend's message,
  22. Ghazal 69: There is no one who has not fallen to that double tress;
  23. Ghazal 70: The pupil of our eye looks at nothing but your face;
  24. Ghazal 77: A nightingale held a bright-coloured rose petal in its beak,
  25. Ghazal 82: That fairy-faced Turk who left our side last night,
  26. Ghazal 85: We did not taste one draught from her ruby lip, and she is gone;
  27. Ghazal 89: Lord, find a way for my beloved to come back in safety
  28. Ghazal 92: My lord, how finely you walk; I would die for you, head to foot.
  29. Ghazal 102: Last night the wind brought news of the friend who has travelled;
  30. Ghazal 103: The day of union with those who loved us, may it be remembered;
  31. Ghazal 107: May your beauty always be on the increase;
  32. Ghazal 116: Whoever keeps the beauty and the down of the friend before his eyes,
  33. Ghazal 123: The minstrel of love has a wondrous tune and melody;
  34. Ghazal 142: Friends, the daughter of the vine has repented of her veiling;
  35. Ghazal 154: Play a tune to whose music one can heave a sigh;
  36. Ghazal 157: Whoever has a passion in his head for your fresh green down
  37. Ghazal 160: Solitude is sweet if the friend is my friend,
  38. Ghazal 172: Love of you has turned out to be a sapling of bewilderment;
  39. Ghazal 174: Good news, O heart: the morning breeze has come back;
  40. Ghazal 175: The morning breeze came to congratulate the old wine seller:
  41. Ghazal 176: At dawn wakeful fortune came to my bedside
  42. Ghazal 178: Whoever became a confidant of the heart remained in the friend's sanctuary,
  43. Ghazal 179: Good news has come that the days of grief will not remain;
  44. Ghazal 186: If the wine seller grants the need of the rends,
  45. Ghazal 189: If the bird of fortune passes this way again,
  46. Ghazal 193: At our play of glances the uninformed stand bewildered;
  47. Ghazal 196: Those who with a glance turn dust into gold,
  48. Ghazal 200: Do you know what the harp and the lute are saying?
  49. Ghazal 212: Yesterday at dawn a cup or two had come my way,
  50. Ghazal 226: I fear that my tears will tear the veil from our grief,
  51. Ghazal 232: I am resolved that, if it lies within my power,
  52. Ghazal 235: O happy the time when the friend comes back,
  53. Ghazal 236: If that bird of holiness comes back through my door,
  54. Ghazal 238: With the crescent the world has drawn dye across the eyebrow of the festival;
  55. Ghazal 247: East wind, do not grudge a visit to the dwelling of the beloved,
  56. Ghazal 250: Show your face and take my own existence out of my memory;
  57. Ghazal 251: It is the night of union, and the letter of separation is folded away;
  58. Ghazal 253: O you by the radiance of whose face the tulip bed of life is glad,
  59. Ghazal 254: Once more from the branch of the straight cypress the patient nightingale
  60. Ghazal 255: Lost Joseph will come back to Canaan; do not grieve.
  61. Ghazal 256: I will give you a piece of advice; listen, and make no excuses:
  62. Ghazal 259: It is I who have opened my eyes upon the sight of the friend;
  63. Ghazal 261: Come in, so that strength may come back into the weary heart;
  64. Ghazal 272: Come back, and be the soul's companion to my straitened heart,
  65. Ghazal 277: The nightingale's whole thought is that the rose should be his friend;
  66. Ghazal 279: How pleasant is Shiraz, and its matchless setting!
  67. Ghazal 284: Last night a voice from the corner of the tavern
  68. Ghazal 289: His cheek, like the moon, is the meeting place of beauty and grace,
  69. Ghazal 294: In faithfulness to your love I am famous among the fair, like the candle;
  70. Ghazal 297: The tongue of the pen has no will to give an account of separation;
  71. Ghazal 300: If a thousand enemies are set on destroying me,
  72. Ghazal 302: May you be the bearer of good news, O breeze of the north,
  73. Ghazal 303: I have caught the breath of affection and seen the lightning of union;
  74. Ghazal 306: If I am granted the chance of arriving in your street,
  75. Ghazal 312: Good news, for safety has alighted at Dhu Salam;
  76. Ghazal 313: Come back, cupbearer, for I am eager to serve,
  77. Ghazal 321: Though I have grown old, weary of heart and feeble,
  78. Ghazal 328: Who am I, that I should pass through that fragrant mind?
  79. Ghazal 329: At dawn the Twins laid their sword-belt down before me,
  80. Ghazal 336: Where is the good news of union with you, that I may rise up out of life itself?
  81. Ghazal 337: Why should I not set my mind on returning to my own land?
  82. Ghazal 339: When the image of your face passes through the rose garden of the eye,
  83. Ghazal 347: O idol, what am I to contrive against the grief of loving you?
  84. Ghazal 352: For a long time now I have been serving in the tavern;
  85. Ghazal 356: If it should lie within my power to sit with the keeper of my heart,
  86. Ghazal 362: The meeting has come about, and the kiss and the embrace as well;
  87. Ghazal 363: My pain comes from the friend, and my cure as well;
  88. Ghazal 368: Rise, so that we may seek an opening at the door of the tavern,
  89. Ghazal 372: Let us pass along the highway of the tavern,
  90. Ghazal 388: Spring and the rose have become stirrers of joy and breakers of repentance;
  91. Ghazal 392: Do you know what good fortune is? To see the face of the friend;
  92. Ghazal 395: Make of the musk-dark hyacinth a veil for the rose petal;
  93. Ghazal 397: Come in through the door and light up our night chamber;
  94. Ghazal 408: O you whose beauty has the sun for its mirror-holder,
  95. Ghazal 418: If swords rain down in the lane of that moon,
  96. Ghazal 419: Union with him is better than everlasting life;
  97. Ghazal 421: The door of the house of the Magians had been swept and sprinkled;
  98. Ghazal 425: He was passing by, trailing his skirt, in fine linen worked with gold;
  99. Ghazal 428: At daybreak, still heavy from the night's drinking,
  100. Ghazal 432: I am languishing from the cup of love: cupbearer, give me wine;
  101. Ghazal 436: If that one with the musk-scented down had written us a letter,
  102. Ghazal 442: By his life: if I had my own life within my reach,
  103. Ghazal 445: You who have everything in the world that can be desired,
  104. Ghazal 452: Man and fairy live only by the grace of love's existence;
  105. Ghazal 459: With this fine script that you draw on the rose of your cheek,
  106. Ghazal 460: Ever since Sulayma settled in Iraq,
  107. Ghazal 462: O smiling mouth that is like a casket of pearls,
  108. Ghazal 463: The peace of God, for as long as the nights return
  109. Ghazal 464: The affair of your beauty, like my love, has reached perfection;
  110. Ghazal 473: Count time as gain, as far as you are able;
  111. Ghazal 487: O you who know nothing, strive to become one who knows;
  112. Ghazal 488: At dawn the voice of the tavern, wishing me well,
  113. Ghazal 489: O you in whose face the lights of kingship are plain to see,
  114. Ghazal 491: I have fixed in my eye the eyebrow of one with a face like the moon;
  115. Ghazal 493: O king of the beautiful, save me from the grief of loneliness;
  116. Ghazal 494: O heart, if you come up out of that pit in the chin,