Hafez on Spirituality

159 ghazals

  1. Ghazal 1: O cupbearer, pass the cup around and hand it on,
  2. Ghazal 2: Where is right conduct, and where am I, the ruined one?
  3. Ghazal 5: My heart is slipping from my hand; you who have hearts, for God's sake help!
  4. Ghazal 7: Come, Sufi, for the cup is a clear mirror;
  5. Ghazal 8: Rise, cupbearer, and pass the cup;
  6. Ghazal 10: Last night our elder came from the mosque to the tavern;
  7. Ghazal 16: The curve your playful eyebrow set in its bow
  8. Ghazal 17: My breast has burned with the heart's fire in grief for the beloved;
  9. Ghazal 21: My heart and faith were gone, and the heart-stealer rose up in reproach;
  10. Ghazal 25: The red rose has opened and the nightingale is drunk;
  11. Ghazal 26: Hair dishevelled, sweating, laughing-lipped and drunk,
  12. Ghazal 31: That Night of Power the recluses speak of is tonight;
  13. Ghazal 34: The portico of my eye's outlook is your nest;
  14. Ghazal 37: Come, for the palace of hope stands on very weak foundations;
  15. Ghazal 41: Though wine gives joy and the wind sifts roses,
  16. Ghazal 47: Every wayfarer who learned the way to the tavern street
  17. Ghazal 48: The Sufi learned the hidden secret from the gleam of wine;
  18. Ghazal 53: I am one for whom the corner of the tavern is the dervish lodge;
  19. Ghazal 63: No one has seen your face, and you have a thousand watchers;
  20. Ghazal 64: Though to display one's skill before the friend is bad manners,
  21. Ghazal 65: What is sweeter than pleasure, company, garden and spring?
  22. Ghazal 69: There is no one who has not fallen to that double tress;
  23. Ghazal 71: The ascetic who worships appearances knows nothing of our state;
  24. Ghazal 74: The yield of the workshop of existence and space is not so much;
  25. Ghazal 77: A nightingale held a bright-coloured rose petal in its beak,
  26. Ghazal 80: Do not find fault with the rends, O ascetic of pure nature,
  27. Ghazal 83: If a fault came from the hand of your musky tress, it is past;
  28. Ghazal 84: Cupbearer, bring wine, for the month of fasting is gone;
  29. Ghazal 89: Lord, find a way for my beloved to come back in safety
  30. Ghazal 105: If the Sufi drinks wine in measure, may it do him good;
  31. Ghazal 111: When the reflection of your face fell in the mirror of the cup,
  32. Ghazal 118: The one who holds a cup in his hand
  33. Ghazal 119: The heart that shows the unseen and holds Jamshid's cup,
  34. Ghazal 120: I have an idol who keeps a canopy of hyacinth around the rose;
  35. Ghazal 127: The moon does not have the brightness of your face;
  36. Ghazal 132: With the bright water of wine a gnostic made his ablution
  37. Ghazal 133: The Sufi set his snare and opened the lid of his box of tricks;
  38. Ghazal 140: The heart-stealer went and gave no word to those who had lost their hearts;
  39. Ghazal 142: Friends, the daughter of the vine has repented of her veiling;
  40. Ghazal 144: You will be able to look into the secret of Jamshid's cup
  41. Ghazal 146: At dawn the breeze was bringing a scent from the friend's tress;
  42. Ghazal 149: My heart takes no road but love of the moon-faced;
  43. Ghazal 150: If the cupbearer pours wine into the cup in this fashion,
  44. Ghazal 151: The whole world is not worth one moment spent in grief;
  45. Ghazal 153: At dawn, when the king of the east planted his banner on the mountains,
  46. Ghazal 158: I, and denial of wine? What sort of tale is that?
  47. Ghazal 159: Not all the Sufi's coin is pure and unalloyed;
  48. Ghazal 170: The ascetic who sat in seclusion went last night to the tavern;
  49. Ghazal 171: Last night a messenger of good news came from Asaf's court:
  50. Ghazal 174: Good news, O heart: the morning breeze has come back;
  51. Ghazal 175: The morning breeze came to congratulate the old wine seller:
  52. Ghazal 178: Whoever became a confidant of the heart remained in the friend's sanctuary,
  53. Ghazal 182: You wrote no account of how you are, and some days have passed;
  54. Ghazal 184: Last night I saw the angels knocking at the tavern door;
  55. Ghazal 186: If the wine seller grants the need of the rends,
  56. Ghazal 193: At our play of glances the uninformed stand bewildered;
  57. Ghazal 196: Those who with a glance turn dust into gold,
  58. Ghazal 197: If the beauties go on stealing hearts in this way,
  59. Ghazal 198: I said: "When will your mouth and lip grant me my desire?"
  60. Ghazal 199: The preachers who make such a display in prayer-niche and pulpit,
  61. Ghazal 200: Do you know what the harp and the lute are saying?
  62. Ghazal 201: Unmixed wine and a fair cupbearer are two snares on the road,
  63. Ghazal 202: Will it be that they open the doors of the taverns,
  64. Ghazal 205: As long as there is name and trace of tavern and wine,
  65. Ghazal 206: Before this you had more thought for your lovers than now;
  66. Ghazal 208: When the wounded have the desire and have not the strength,
  67. Ghazal 211: Last night he was coming, and his cheek was aflame;
  68. Ghazal 212: Yesterday at dawn a cup or two had come my way,
  69. Ghazal 218: Whoever in pre-eternity was found worthy of the bounty of fortune,
  70. Ghazal 220: From the eye the blood of the heart runs all over our face;
  71. Ghazal 222: Whoever goes away from the head of your street in weariness,
  72. Ghazal 232: I am resolved that, if it lies within my power,
  73. Ghazal 239: The good news has come that spring is here and the green has sprouted;
  74. Ghazal 240: The cloud of early spring has risen, the wind of the New Year has blown;
  75. Ghazal 242: Come, for the banner of the victorious king has arrived;
  76. Ghazal 243: Whoever caught your sweet scent from the east wind
  77. Ghazal 246: It is the festival, the last of the roses, and the friends are waiting;
  78. Ghazal 247: East wind, do not grudge a visit to the dwelling of the beloved,
  79. Ghazal 249: East wind, bring a fragrance from the dust of the friend's road;
  80. Ghazal 252: If life lasts, I will reach the tavern once again,
  81. Ghazal 254: Once more from the branch of the straight cypress the patient nightingale
  82. Ghazal 257: Show your face and tell me: "Take your heart away from life."
  83. Ghazal 258: A thousand thanks that I have seen you again as I wished,
  84. Ghazal 259: It is I who have opened my eyes upon the sight of the friend;
  85. Ghazal 260: O cypress of the grace of beauty, who walk so sweetly in your pride,
  86. Ghazal 264: Rise, and pour the water of joy into the bowl of gold,
  87. Ghazal 266: My heart has run away to a gypsy-like one who stirs up tumult,
  88. Ghazal 269: O heart, your own well-wishing fortune is companion enough for the journey;
  89. Ghazal 271: I have such complaints about his black tress: do not ask.
  90. Ghazal 272: Come back, and be the soul's companion to my straitened heart,
  91. Ghazal 274: In the season of the tulip take the cup, and be free of hypocrisy;
  92. Ghazal 275: Sufi, pick a rose and give the patched cloak to the thorn;
  93. Ghazal 276: If the gardener wants the company of the rose for five days,
  94. Ghazal 277: The nightingale's whole thought is that the rose should be his friend;
  95. Ghazal 281: O Lord, this smiling new rose that you entrusted to me,
  96. Ghazal 283: At dawn good news reached my ear from the voice of the unseen:
  97. Ghazal 285: In the reign of the king who forgives faults and covers offences,
  98. Ghazal 292: I swear by the pomp, the rank and the glory of Shah Shuja
  99. Ghazal 293: In the morning, when from the private chamber of the palace of creation
  100. Ghazal 296: If my star gives its help, I will bring his skirt into my hand;
  101. Ghazal 299: If you drink wine, pour a draught out on the earth;
  102. Ghazal 301: O you with whose lip my wounded heart has the claim of salt,
  103. Ghazal 310: Welcome, bird of blessed footstep and fortunate message!
  104. Ghazal 311: I am in love with the face of a fair youth newly come to bloom,
  105. Ghazal 320: Last night with a flood of tears I was barring the road of sleep;
  106. Ghazal 331: If he kills me with the sword, I will not hold back his hand;
  107. Ghazal 332: Do not strike my heart with the arrow of your glance,
  108. Ghazal 335: If my way should lead once more to the tavern of the Magians,
  109. Ghazal 340: I, who from the fire of my heart am seething like the jar of wine,
  110. Ghazal 341: If I gave any thought to the reproaches of the pretenders,
  111. Ghazal 343: More than forty years have gone by in which I have been boasting
  112. Ghazal 355: For the present I see the wisdom of the hour in this:
  113. Ghazal 356: If it should lie within my power to sit with the keeper of my heart,
  114. Ghazal 361: The one who trampled me underfoot with cruelty, like the dust of the road,
  115. Ghazal 362: The meeting has come about, and the kiss and the embrace as well;
  116. Ghazal 366: We have not come to this door in pursuit of pomp and rank;
  117. Ghazal 367: I have a ruling from the Magian elder, and it is an old saying,
  118. Ghazal 371: We have laid down our dawn lesson on the road to the tavern;
  119. Ghazal 372: Let us pass along the highway of the tavern,
  120. Ghazal 373: Rise, so that we may carry the Sufi's cloak to the tavern,
  121. Ghazal 375: Sufi, come, let us pull off the cloak of sham,
  122. Ghazal 376: Friends, in the season of the rose it is best that we strive after pleasure;
  123. Ghazal 379: My head is merry, and I say it in a loud voice:
  124. Ghazal 380: Many times I have said it, and I say it once more:
  125. Ghazal 386: For God's sake, sit less often with the wearers of the cloak,
  126. Ghazal 393: It is I who am famous in the city for the practice of love;
  127. Ghazal 397: Come in through the door and light up our night chamber;
  128. Ghazal 398: O light of my eyes, there is something to be said: listen.
  129. Ghazal 400: My tall, coquettish, artful beloved
  130. Ghazal 405: By the life of the elder of the tavern and the right of his company,
  131. Ghazal 407: I saw the green field of the sky and the sickle of the new moon;
  132. Ghazal 411: Your musk-scattering forelock makes the violet writhe;
  133. Ghazal 415: O messenger of the truthful, tell us news of our friend;
  134. Ghazal 416: Welcome is that amber-scented breeze, that longed-for fragrance,
  135. Ghazal 417: My pleasure is lasting, from the ruby lip I desire;
  136. Ghazal 419: Union with him is better than everlasting life;
  137. Ghazal 422: O you who have come with the chain of your long tress,
  138. Ghazal 423: Last night I went to the tavern door, heavy with sleep,
  139. Ghazal 434: O heart, do not be for one moment empty of love and drunkenness,
  140. Ghazal 436: If that one with the musk-scented down had written us a letter,
  141. Ghazal 447: Come, do not go on bearing this grudge against us,
  142. Ghazal 450: For a long time now you have kept us anxious;
  143. Ghazal 451: The sky gave you good help on the day of judgement;
  144. Ghazal 454: From the lane of the friend comes the breeze of the New Year wind;
  145. Ghazal 455: Life has gone by in fruitlessness and idle whims;
  146. Ghazal 466: This cloak that I have is better in pawn for wine,
  147. Ghazal 467: Of that wine of love by which every raw one is ripened,
  148. Ghazal 468: Who will carry a message from me, a beggar, to the kings:
  149. Ghazal 471: Who will bring me the kindness of a line from my beloved's pen?
  150. Ghazal 473: Count time as gain, as far as you are able;
  151. Ghazal 474: I am devoted to you, my dear, and I know that you know,
  152. Ghazal 480: O you who show no forbearance in killing us,
  153. Ghazal 483: At dawn, a wayfarer in a certain land
  154. Ghazal 485: Cupbearer, here are the shade of a cloud, the spring and the bank of a stream;
  155. Ghazal 487: O you who know nothing, strive to become one who knows;
  156. Ghazal 489: O you in whose face the lights of kingship are plain to see,
  157. Ghazal 490: In all the monastery of the Magians there is no one so distraught as I:
  158. Ghazal 491: I have fixed in my eye the eyebrow of one with a face like the moon;
  159. Ghazal 492: A greeting, like the pleasant scent of friendship,