Hafez on Fortune and change

64 ghazals

  1. Ghazal 9: The garden has again the bloom of the days of youth;
  2. Ghazal 10: Last night our elder came from the mosque to the tavern;
  3. Ghazal 16: The curve your playful eyebrow set in its bow
  4. Ghazal 29: With the thought of you, what care have we for wine?
  5. Ghazal 37: Come, for the palace of hope stands on very weak foundations;
  6. Ghazal 43: The garden court gives delight and the company of friends is sweet;
  7. Ghazal 45: In this age, the friend who is free of fault
  8. Ghazal 53: I am one for whom the corner of the tavern is the dervish lodge;
  9. Ghazal 64: Though to display one's skill before the friend is bad manners,
  10. Ghazal 78: You saw that the friend had nothing in mind but cruelty and oppression;
  11. Ghazal 88: I have heard a good saying that the old man of Canaan spoke:
  12. Ghazal 101: What is wine and pleasure in secret? A work without foundation.
  13. Ghazal 108: O king, may the ball of the sky be in the curve of your polo stick;
  14. Ghazal 111: When the reflection of your face fell in the mirror of the cup,
  15. Ghazal 112: The One who gave your cheek the colour of rose and wild rose
  16. Ghazal 114: The phoenix of the height of happiness will fall into our snare
  17. Ghazal 120: I have an idol who keeps a canopy of hyacinth around the rose;
  18. Ghazal 121: Whoever has a collected mind and a delicate beloved,
  19. Ghazal 125: A beauty is not one who has fine hair and a slender waist;
  20. Ghazal 126: The soul, without the beauty of the beloved, has no desire for the world;
  21. Ghazal 128: There is no beauty in the city who can carry off our heart;
  22. Ghazal 136: One cannot put a hand into the ring of that double tress;
  23. Ghazal 140: The heart-stealer went and gave no word to those who had lost their hearts;
  24. Ghazal 151: The whole world is not worth one moment spent in grief;
  25. Ghazal 165: Love of the dark-eyed will not go out of my head;
  26. Ghazal 170: The ascetic who sat in seclusion went last night to the tavern;
  27. Ghazal 173: In my prayer the curve of your eyebrow came to mind;
  28. Ghazal 190: Your musk-black pen, on the day it remembers us,
  29. Ghazal 205: As long as there is name and trace of tavern and wine,
  30. Ghazal 213: The jewel in the treasury of secrets is the same as it was;
  31. Ghazal 215: In the street of the tavern, O Lord, what a commotion there was at dawn,
  32. Ghazal 223: Never will your image leave the tablet of my heart and soul;
  33. Ghazal 225: Cupbearer, the talk is of the cypress, the rose and the tulip,
  34. Ghazal 241: Companions, remember the comrade of your nights;
  35. Ghazal 247: East wind, do not grudge a visit to the dwelling of the beloved,
  36. Ghazal 257: Show your face and tell me: "Take your heart away from life."
  37. Ghazal 264: Rise, and pour the water of joy into the bowl of gold,
  38. Ghazal 268: One rose-cheeked beauty from the rose garden of the world is enough for us;
  39. Ghazal 269: O heart, your own well-wishing fortune is companion enough for the journey;
  40. Ghazal 278: I want a bitter wine whose strength can throw a man,
  41. Ghazal 280: When the east wind ruffled his amber-scattering tress,
  42. Ghazal 290: My heart has bolted, and I, a poor dervish, do not know
  43. Ghazal 291: We have tried our fortune in this city;
  44. Ghazal 292: I swear by the pomp, the rank and the glory of Shah Shuja
  45. Ghazal 293: In the morning, when from the private chamber of the palace of creation
  46. Ghazal 320: Last night with a flood of tears I was barring the road of sleep;
  47. Ghazal 329: At dawn the Twins laid their sword-belt down before me,
  48. Ghazal 362: The meeting has come about, and the kiss and the embrace as well;
  49. Ghazal 366: We have not come to this door in pursuit of pomp and rank;
  50. Ghazal 372: Let us pass along the highway of the tavern,
  51. Ghazal 376: Friends, in the season of the rose it is best that we strive after pleasure;
  52. Ghazal 378: We do not speak ill, and we do not lean towards what is unjust;
  53. Ghazal 379: My head is merry, and I say it in a loud voice:
  54. Ghazal 392: Do you know what good fortune is? To see the face of the friend;
  55. Ghazal 407: I saw the green field of the sky and the sickle of the new moon;
  56. Ghazal 417: My pleasure is lasting, from the ruby lip I desire;
  57. Ghazal 418: If swords rain down in the lane of that moon,
  58. Ghazal 419: Union with him is better than everlasting life;
  59. Ghazal 436: If that one with the musk-scented down had written us a letter,
  60. Ghazal 451: The sky gave you good help on the day of judgement;
  61. Ghazal 463: The peace of God, for as long as the nights return
  62. Ghazal 465: I went into the garden one morning to pick a rose;
  63. Ghazal 467: Of that wine of love by which every raw one is ripened,
  64. Ghazal 470: My breast is brimful of pain: alas, for a salve!