Hafez on Beauty

183 ghazals

1. Ghazal 3: If that Turk of Shiraz would take my heart in hand,
2. Ghazal 4: Morning breeze, tell that graceful gazelle with kindness:
3. Ghazal 5: My heart is slipping from my hand; you who have hearts, for God's sake help!
4. Ghazal 6: Who will carry this prayer to the attendants of the sultan:
5. Ghazal 10: Last night our elder came from the mosque to the tavern;
6. Ghazal 11: Cupbearer, light our cup with the radiance of wine;
7. Ghazal 12: The moon of beauty takes its light from your shining face;
8. Ghazal 14: I said: O sultan of the fair, have mercy on this stranger.
9. Ghazal 15: O holy beauty, who unties the cord of your veil?
10. Ghazal 23: The image of your face is our companion on every road;
11. Ghazal 29: With the thought of you, what care have we for wine?
12. Ghazal 33: What need has one who has chosen solitude to go sightseeing?
13. Ghazal 39: What need has my garden of cypress and pine?
14. Ghazal 40: Thanks be to God that the tavern door is open,
15. Ghazal 46: The rose at my breast, wine in my hand and the beloved as I wish:
16. Ghazal 52: For a long time now, passion for the beautiful has been my religion;
17. Ghazal 54: From weeping, the pupil of my eye is seated in blood;
18. Ghazal 55: The curl of your tress is the snare of unbelief and faith alike;
19. Ghazal 60: That renowned courier who arrived from the friend's country
20. Ghazal 64: Though to display one's skill before the friend is bad manners,
21. Ghazal 66: Lament, nightingale, if you mean to be my friend,
22. Ghazal 76: Apart from your threshold I have no refuge in the world;
23. Ghazal 77: A nightingale held a bright-coloured rose petal in its beak,
24. Ghazal 85: We did not taste one draught from her ruby lip, and she is gone;
25. Ghazal 86: Cupbearer, come, for the friend has lifted the veil from her face;
26. Ghazal 87: Your beauty, in alliance with charm, has taken the world;
27. Ghazal 91: O you who are absent from my sight, I entrust you to God;
28. Ghazal 94: Of that heart-soothing friend I have thanks mixed with complaint;
29. Ghazal 96: There is no cure for our pain. Help!
30. Ghazal 97: You are the one who sits like a crown on the head of a country's beauties;
31. Ghazal 104: May your beauty be the sun of every eye;
32. Ghazal 105: If the Sufi drinks wine in measure, may it do him good;
33. Ghazal 106: May your body never need the favours of physicians;
34. Ghazal 107: May your beauty always be on the increase;
35. Ghazal 111: When the reflection of your face fell in the mirror of the cup,
36. Ghazal 113: Last night the violet spoke to the rose and gave a fair sign:
37. Ghazal 116: Whoever keeps the beauty and the down of the friend before his eyes,
38. Ghazal 118: The one who holds a cup in his hand
39. Ghazal 119: The heart that shows the unseen and holds Jamshid's cup,
40. Ghazal 120: I have an idol who keeps a canopy of hyacinth around the rose;
41. Ghazal 121: Whoever has a collected mind and a delicate beloved,
42. Ghazal 125: A beauty is not one who has fine hair and a slender waist;
43. Ghazal 126: The soul, without the beauty of the beloved, has no desire for the world;
44. Ghazal 128: There is no beauty in the city who can carry off our heart;
45. Ghazal 135: Like the wind, I will set out for the end of the friend's street;
46. Ghazal 138: May he be remembered who, when he set out, did not remember us,
47. Ghazal 144: You will be able to look into the secret of Jamshid's cup
48. Ghazal 145: I do not know what drunkenness this is that has turned our way,
49. Ghazal 152: Before time began, the ray of your beauty spoke of showing itself;
50. Ghazal 153: At dawn, when the king of the east planted his banner on the mountains,
51. Ghazal 156: In beauty, character and faithfulness no one comes near our friend;
52. Ghazal 157: Whoever has a passion in his head for your fresh green down
53. Ghazal 161: How can a mind that is sad bring forth fresh verse?
54. Ghazal 162: The rose has come and is sweet, and nothing is sweeter
55. Ghazal 167: A star shone out and became the moon of the gathering;
56. Ghazal 168: My soul melted so that the heart's business might be done, and it was not;
57. Ghazal 170: The ascetic who sat in seclusion went last night to the tavern;
58. Ghazal 171: Last night a messenger of good news came from Asaf's court:
59. Ghazal 173: In my prayer the curve of your eyebrow came to mind;
60. Ghazal 176: At dawn wakeful fortune came to my bedside
61. Ghazal 177: Not everyone who lights up a face knows how to win hearts;
62. Ghazal 178: Whoever became a confidant of the heart remained in the friend's sanctuary,
63. Ghazal 183: Last night at the hour of dawn they delivered me from grief,
64. Ghazal 185: Will it be that they put the coins to the test,
65. Ghazal 190: Your musk-black pen, on the day it remembers us,
66. Ghazal 196: Those who with a glance turn dust into gold,
67. Ghazal 199: The preachers who make such a display in prayer-niche and pulpit,
68. Ghazal 200: Do you know what the harp and the lute are saying?
69. Ghazal 201: Unmixed wine and a fair cupbearer are two snares on the road,
70. Ghazal 203: For years our book was in pawn for red wine;
71. Ghazal 204: Be it remembered: the time when in secret you had a glance for us,
72. Ghazal 206: Before this you had more thought for your lovers than now;
73. Ghazal 209: The killing of this wounded one by your sword was not fated;
74. Ghazal 212: Yesterday at dawn a cup or two had come my way,
75. Ghazal 214: I saw in a sweet dream that there was a cup in my hand;
76. Ghazal 215: In the street of the tavern, O Lord, what a commotion there was at dawn,
77. Ghazal 216: That friend through whom our house was the dwelling of a fairy
78. Ghazal 219: Now that in the meadow the rose has come from non-being into being,
79. Ghazal 223: Never will your image leave the tablet of my heart and soul;
80. Ghazal 225: Cupbearer, the talk is of the cypress, the rose and the tulip,
81. Ghazal 226: I fear that my tears will tear the veil from our grief,
82. Ghazal 227: Though these words will not come easy to the preacher of the city:
83. Ghazal 228: If I pick one fruit from your garden, what will it matter?
84. Ghazal 229: Fortune gives me no sign of the mouth of the friend;
85. Ghazal 230: If my heart is drawn to musk-scented wine, it is fitting,
86. Ghazal 235: O happy the time when the friend comes back,
87. Ghazal 239: The good news has come that spring is here and the green has sprouted;
88. Ghazal 242: Come, for the banner of the victorious king has arrived;
89. Ghazal 243: Whoever caught your sweet scent from the east wind
90. Ghazal 246: It is the festival, the last of the roses, and the friends are waiting;
91. Ghazal 254: Once more from the branch of the straight cypress the patient nightingale
92. Ghazal 258: A thousand thanks that I have seen you again as I wished,
93. Ghazal 260: O cypress of the grace of beauty, who walk so sweetly in your pride,
94. Ghazal 261: Come in, so that strength may come back into the weary heart;
95. Ghazal 266: My heart has run away to a gypsy-like one who stirs up tumult,
96. Ghazal 268: One rose-cheeked beauty from the rose garden of the world is enough for us;
97. Ghazal 269: O heart, your own well-wishing fortune is companion enough for the journey;
98. Ghazal 273: If you are a kindly comrade, be true to your pledge;
99. Ghazal 275: Sufi, pick a rose and give the patched cloak to the thorn;
100. Ghazal 280: When the east wind ruffled his amber-scattering tress,
101. Ghazal 281: O Lord, this smiling new rose that you entrusted to me,
102. Ghazal 282: He has carried off my rest, my endurance and my senses,
103. Ghazal 287: O you whose every feature is pleasing and every part delightful,
104. Ghazal 288: The water's edge, the foot of the willow, a mind for poetry and a pleasant friend;
105. Ghazal 289: His cheek, like the moon, is the meeting place of beauty and grace,
106. Ghazal 293: In the morning, when from the private chamber of the palace of creation
107. Ghazal 294: In faithfulness to your love I am famous among the fair, like the candle;
108. Ghazal 295: At dawn, drawn by the scent of the rose garden, I went for a while into the garden,
109. Ghazal 302: May you be the bearer of good news, O breeze of the north,
110. Ghazal 303: I have caught the breath of affection and seen the lightning of union;
111. Ghazal 305: In the season of the rose I was ashamed of having repented of wine;
112. Ghazal 306: If I am granted the chance of arriving in your street,
113. Ghazal 307: Every fine point that I spoke in describing that figure,
114. Ghazal 308: O you whose face is like paradise and whose ruby lip is its spring,
115. Ghazal 309: The play of love, and youth, and wine the colour of ruby;
116. Ghazal 322: I drew the image of your form in the workshop of my eye;
117. Ghazal 326: In the hidden house of pleasure I have a lovely idol,
118. Ghazal 327: I have a covenant with the beloved that, as long as there is life in my body,
119. Ghazal 329: At dawn the Twins laid their sword-belt down before me,
120. Ghazal 332: Do not strike my heart with the arrow of your glance,
121. Ghazal 333: At the strangers' evening prayer, when I begin to weep,
122. Ghazal 338: I am a lover of a fair face and of hair that draws the heart;
123. Ghazal 346: I am not the kind of rend who gives up beauty and the cup;
124. Ghazal 349: Last night I said: "I will put the passion for his face out of my head."
125. Ghazal 352: For a long time now I have been serving in the tavern;
126. Ghazal 353: I will not give up the love of beauty and of the cup;
127. Ghazal 354: With your black lashes you have made a thousand breaches in my faith;
128. Ghazal 361: The one who trampled me underfoot with cruelty, like the dust of the road,
129. Ghazal 362: The meeting has come about, and the kiss and the embrace as well;
130. Ghazal 363: My pain comes from the friend, and my cure as well;
131. Ghazal 367: I have a ruling from the Magian elder, and it is an old saying,
132. Ghazal 369: We looked to our friends for friendship;
133. Ghazal 374: Come, let us scatter roses and pour wine into the cup;
134. Ghazal 375: Sufi, come, let us pull off the cloak of sham,
135. Ghazal 381: Although we are the servants of the king,
136. Ghazal 384: I am burning from separation from you: turn your face away from cruelty.
137. Ghazal 388: Spring and the rose have become stirrers of joy and breakers of repentance;
138. Ghazal 390: The crown of the Sultan Rose has appeared at the edge of the meadow;
139. Ghazal 393: It is I who am famous in the city for the practice of love;
140. Ghazal 394: O you whose moon-like face is the new spring of beauty,
141. Ghazal 395: Make of the musk-dark hyacinth a veil for the rose petal;
142. Ghazal 397: Come in through the door and light up our night chamber;
143. Ghazal 399: Give one coquettish glance and break the market of sorcery;
144. Ghazal 403: Drink ruby wine and look at the faces of the moon-browed;
145. Ghazal 407: I saw the green field of the sky and the sickle of the new moon;
146. Ghazal 408: O you whose beauty has the sun for its mirror-holder,
147. Ghazal 409: O you, the dust of whose road is the blood-price of the musk of China;
148. Ghazal 411: Your musk-scattering forelock makes the violet writhe;
149. Ghazal 412: I have an eye that scatters blood because of that one with the bow eyebrow;
150. Ghazal 414: The rose bush of pleasure is in bloom: where is the rose-cheeked cupbearer?
151. Ghazal 420: Suddenly you have thrown off the veil: what does it mean?
152. Ghazal 424: Do not part from me, for you are the light of my eyes,
153. Ghazal 425: He was passing by, trailing his skirt, in fine linen worked with gold;
154. Ghazal 427: The candle has become the moth of the lamp of your face;
155. Ghazal 428: At daybreak, still heavy from the night's drinking,
156. Ghazal 429: Cupbearer, come, for the cup of the tulip has filled with wine;
157. Ghazal 430: If you will not drink wine to the voice of nightingale and turtledove,
158. Ghazal 432: I am languishing from the cup of love: cupbearer, give me wine;
159. Ghazal 433: O you who have drawn a veil of musky down across the moon,
160. Ghazal 436: If that one with the musk-scented down had written us a letter,
161. Ghazal 437: O you, of whose lane the story of paradise is but a tale,
162. Ghazal 438: Salma, with the locks on her temples, has taken my heart captive,
163. Ghazal 444: It is a city full of charming people, with a beauty on every side;
164. Ghazal 445: You who have everything in the world that can be desired,
165. Ghazal 446: East wind, you carry the fragrance of that musk-scented tress;
166. Ghazal 452: Man and fairy live only by the grace of love's existence;
167. Ghazal 456: It is early spring: strive to be glad of heart,
168. Ghazal 457: I have made a thousand efforts that you might be my friend,
169. Ghazal 461: I wrote the story of my longing while my eyes were weeping;
170. Ghazal 463: The peace of God, for as long as the nights return
171. Ghazal 464: The affair of your beauty, like my love, has reached perfection;
172. Ghazal 465: I went into the garden one morning to pick a rose;
173. Ghazal 472: I praise God for the justice of the sultan,
174. Ghazal 473: Count time as gain, as far as you are able;
175. Ghazal 474: I am devoted to you, my dear, and I know that you know,
176. Ghazal 475: People said that you are a second Joseph;
177. Ghazal 476: Breeze of the morning of good fortune, by the sign that you know,
178. Ghazal 480: O you who show no forbearance in killing us,
179. Ghazal 483: At dawn, a wayfarer in a certain land
180. Ghazal 491: I have fixed in my eye the eyebrow of one with a face like the moon;
181. Ghazal 492: A greeting, like the pleasant scent of friendship,
182. Ghazal 493: O king of the beautiful, save me from the grief of loneliness;
183. Ghazal 495: "Ask for wine and scatter roses: what do you seek from time?"