Hafez on Success and work
69 ghazals
- Ghazal 12: The moon of beauty takes its light from your shining face;
- Ghazal 49: The garden of highest paradise is the retreat of dervishes;
- Ghazal 50: In the snare of your tress the heart is its own captive;
- Ghazal 58: Our head of devotion and the threshold of the friend's presence,
- Ghazal 77: A nightingale held a bright-coloured rose petal in its beak,
- Ghazal 83: If a fault came from the hand of your musky tress, it is past;
- Ghazal 88: I have heard a good saying that the old man of Canaan spoke:
- Ghazal 91: O you who are absent from my sight, I entrust you to God;
- Ghazal 98: If in your creed the blood of the lover is lawful,
- Ghazal 108: O king, may the ball of the sky be in the curve of your polo stick;
- Ghazal 114: The phoenix of the height of happiness will fall into our snare
- Ghazal 115: Plant the tree of friendship, for it bears the heart's desire as fruit;
- Ghazal 119: The heart that shows the unseen and holds Jamshid's cup,
- Ghazal 138: May he be remembered who, when he set out, did not remember us,
- Ghazal 144: You will be able to look into the secret of Jamshid's cup
- Ghazal 147: Last night the courier of the morning wind brought me word
- Ghazal 153: At dawn, when the king of the east planted his banner on the mountains,
- Ghazal 154: Play a tune to whose music one can heave a sigh;
- Ghazal 169: We see no friendship in anyone; what has become of the friends?
- Ghazal 176: At dawn wakeful fortune came to my bedside
- Ghazal 183: Last night at the hour of dawn they delivered me from grief,
- Ghazal 188: That meddler faults me for being a rend and a lover
- Ghazal 190: Your musk-black pen, on the day it remembers us,
- Ghazal 191: Who is there that out of generosity will keep faith with us,
- Ghazal 194: The jasmine-scented, when they sit down, lay the dust of grief;
- Ghazal 198: I said: "When will your mouth and lip grant me my desire?"
- Ghazal 212: Yesterday at dawn a cup or two had come my way,
- Ghazal 214: I saw in a sweet dream that there was a cup in my hand;
- Ghazal 218: Whoever in pre-eternity was found worthy of the bounty of fortune,
- Ghazal 227: Though these words will not come easy to the preacher of the city:
- Ghazal 237: My breath is spent and my desire from you is not fulfilled;
- Ghazal 241: Companions, remember the comrade of your nights;
- Ghazal 242: Come, for the banner of the victorious king has arrived;
- Ghazal 248: O east wind, bring me a fragrance from the street of a certain one;
- Ghazal 255: Lost Joseph will come back to Canaan; do not grieve.
- Ghazal 259: It is I who have opened my eyes upon the sight of the friend;
- Ghazal 261: Come in, so that strength may come back into the weary heart;
- Ghazal 267: East wind, if you pass along the bank of the river Aras,
- Ghazal 269: O heart, your own well-wishing fortune is companion enough for the journey;
- Ghazal 284: Last night a voice from the corner of the tavern
- Ghazal 285: In the reign of the king who forgives faults and covers offences,
- Ghazal 291: We have tried our fortune in this city;
- Ghazal 296: If my star gives its help, I will bring his skirt into my hand;
- Ghazal 298: A place of safety, wine without blemish and a kind friend:
- Ghazal 301: O you with whose lip my wounded heart has the claim of salt,
- Ghazal 304: Possessor of the world, Helper of the Faith, the perfect sovereign,
- Ghazal 312: Good news, for safety has alighted at Dhu Salam;
- Ghazal 320: Last night with a flood of tears I was barring the road of sleep;
- Ghazal 321: Though I have grown old, weary of heart and feeble,
- Ghazal 329: At dawn the Twins laid their sword-belt down before me,
- Ghazal 330: You are like the morning, and I am the candle of the solitude of dawn;
- Ghazal 344: For a lifetime, in my seeking, I have been taking a step each day;
- Ghazal 350: At dawn, meaning to repent, I said: "I will seek guidance by a casting of lots."
- Ghazal 366: We have not come to this door in pursuit of pomp and rank;
- Ghazal 368: Rise, so that we may seek an opening at the door of the tavern,
- Ghazal 381: Although we are the servants of the king,
- Ghazal 385: O Lord, bring that musk-scented deer back to Khotan,
- Ghazal 393: It is I who am famous in the city for the practice of love;
- Ghazal 402: Let me tell you a charming point: look at the mole of that moon-faced one;
- Ghazal 410: O you on whose stature the robe of kingship fits exactly;
- Ghazal 414: The rose bush of pleasure is in bloom: where is the rose-cheeked cupbearer?
- Ghazal 421: The door of the house of the Magians had been swept and sprinkled;
- Ghazal 437: O you, of whose lane the story of paradise is but a tale,
- Ghazal 445: You who have everything in the world that can be desired,
- Ghazal 451: The sky gave you good help on the day of judgement;
- 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 482: O heart, you do not pass through the lane of love;
- Ghazal 485: Cupbearer, here are the shade of a cloud, the spring and the bank of a stream;