Hafez on Guidance and advice
54 ghazals
- Ghazal 1: O cupbearer, pass the cup around and hand it on,
- Ghazal 15: O holy beauty, who unties the cord of your veil?
- Ghazal 22: When you hear the words of people of the heart, do not say they are wrong;
- Ghazal 32: When God shaped the form of your heart-opening eyebrow,
- Ghazal 74: The yield of the workshop of existence and space is not so much;
- Ghazal 75: The sleepiness of your seductive narcissus eye is not for nothing;
- Ghazal 77: A nightingale held a bright-coloured rose petal in its beak,
- Ghazal 87: Your beauty, in alliance with charm, has taken the world;
- Ghazal 96: There is no cure for our pain. Help!
- Ghazal 100: Yesterday the old wine seller, may his name be blessed,
- Ghazal 101: What is wine and pleasure in secret? A work without foundation.
- Ghazal 117: In the time of your face, our heart has no need of the meadow,
- Ghazal 129: If wine does not carry the heart's grief out of our mind,
- Ghazal 135: Like the wind, I will set out for the end of the friend's street;
- Ghazal 143: For years the heart was asking us for Jamshid's cup,
- Ghazal 144: You will be able to look into the secret of Jamshid's cup
- Ghazal 149: My heart takes no road but love of the moon-faced;
- Ghazal 159: Not all the Sufi's coin is pure and unalloyed;
- Ghazal 161: How can a mind that is sad bring forth fresh verse?
- Ghazal 168: My soul melted so that the heart's business might be done, and it was not;
- Ghazal 200: Do you know what the harp and the lute are saying?
- Ghazal 205: As long as there is name and trace of tavern and wine,
- Ghazal 208: When the wounded have the desire and have not the strength,
- Ghazal 209: The killing of this wounded one by your sword was not fated;
- Ghazal 210: Last night in our circle the tale was of your tresses;
- Ghazal 222: Whoever goes away from the head of your street in weariness,
- Ghazal 228: If I pick one fruit from your garden, what will it matter?
- Ghazal 243: Whoever caught your sweet scent from the east wind
- Ghazal 270: I have borne such a pain of love: do not ask.
- Ghazal 274: In the season of the tulip take the cup, and be free of hypocrisy;
- Ghazal 283: At dawn good news reached my ear from the voice of the unseen:
- Ghazal 286: Last night a sharp-witted man who knows how things work told me in private,
- Ghazal 298: A place of safety, wine without blemish and a kind friend:
- Ghazal 313: Come back, cupbearer, for I am eager to serve,
- Ghazal 318: You see me, and every moment you increase my pain;
- Ghazal 334: If my hand should reach your two tresses once again,
- Ghazal 335: If my way should lead once more to the tavern of the Magians,
- Ghazal 340: I, who from the fire of my heart am seething like the jar of wine,
- Ghazal 343: More than forty years have gone by in which I have been boasting
- Ghazal 356: If it should lie within my power to sit with the keeper of my heart,
- Ghazal 358: For the grief of the times, to which I can see no shore,
- Ghazal 364: We, the carefree and drunken who have lost our hearts,
- Ghazal 383: However much I told my grief to the physicians,
- Ghazal 387: The king of those with boxwood stature, the sovereign of the sweet-mouthed,
- Ghazal 390: The crown of the Sultan Rose has appeared at the edge of the meadow;
- Ghazal 397: Come in through the door and light up our night chamber;
- Ghazal 398: O light of my eyes, there is something to be said: listen.
- Ghazal 419: Union with him is better than everlasting life;
- Ghazal 423: Last night I went to the tavern door, heavy with sleep,
- Ghazal 456: It is early spring: strive to be glad of heart,
- 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;
- Ghazal 487: O you who know nothing, strive to become one who knows;
- Ghazal 489: O you in whose face the lights of kingship are plain to see,