Hafez on Hope and good news

100 ghazals

  1. Ghazal 5: My heart is slipping from my hand; you who have hearts, for God's sake help!
  2. Ghazal 11: Cupbearer, light our cup with the radiance of wine;
  3. Ghazal 13: Dawn is breaking and the cloud has pitched its canopy;
  4. Ghazal 15: O holy beauty, who unties the cord of your veil?
  5. Ghazal 17: My breast has burned with the heart's fire in grief for the beloved;
  6. Ghazal 19: O breeze of dawn, where is the resting place of the friend?
  7. Ghazal 21: My heart and faith were gone, and the heart-stealer rose up in reproach;
  8. Ghazal 27: My beloved came into the Magian temple, a cup in hand,
  9. Ghazal 28: By the master's life, by old right and true covenant,
  10. Ghazal 31: That Night of Power the recluses speak of is tonight;
  11. Ghazal 32: When God shaped the form of your heart-opening eyebrow,
  12. Ghazal 39: What need has my garden of cypress and pine?
  13. Ghazal 42: To tell you the state of my heart is my desire;
  14. Ghazal 47: Every wayfarer who learned the way to the tavern street
  15. Ghazal 58: Our head of devotion and the threshold of the friend's presence,
  16. Ghazal 59: I hope for a kindness from the friend's court;
  17. Ghazal 60: That renowned courier who arrived from the friend's country
  18. Ghazal 69: There is no one who has not fallen to that double tress;
  19. Ghazal 82: That fairy-faced Turk who left our side last night,
  20. Ghazal 86: Cupbearer, come, for the friend has lifted the veil from her face;
  21. Ghazal 89: Lord, find a way for my beloved to come back in safety
  22. Ghazal 92: My lord, how finely you walk; I would die for you, head to foot.
  23. Ghazal 106: May your body never need the favours of physicians;
  24. Ghazal 114: The phoenix of the height of happiness will fall into our snare
  25. Ghazal 130: At dawn the nightingale told its tale to the breeze:
  26. Ghazal 138: May he be remembered who, when he set out, did not remember us,
  27. Ghazal 142: Friends, the daughter of the vine has repented of her veiling;
  28. Ghazal 145: I do not know what drunkenness this is that has turned our way,
  29. Ghazal 147: Last night the courier of the morning wind brought me word
  30. Ghazal 153: At dawn, when the king of the east planted his banner on the mountains,
  31. Ghazal 164: The breath of the morning breeze will scatter musk;
  32. Ghazal 166: The day of separation and the night of parting from the friend are over;
  33. Ghazal 167: A star shone out and became the moon of the gathering;
  34. Ghazal 171: Last night a messenger of good news came from Asaf's court:
  35. Ghazal 174: Good news, O heart: the morning breeze has come back;
  36. Ghazal 176: At dawn wakeful fortune came to my bedside
  37. Ghazal 179: Good news has come that the days of grief will not remain;
  38. Ghazal 184: Last night I saw the angels knocking at the tavern door;
  39. Ghazal 185: Will it be that they put the coins to the test,
  40. Ghazal 189: If the bird of fortune passes this way again,
  41. Ghazal 191: Who is there that out of generosity will keep faith with us,
  42. Ghazal 198: I said: "When will your mouth and lip grant me my desire?"
  43. Ghazal 212: Yesterday at dawn a cup or two had come my way,
  44. Ghazal 214: I saw in a sweet dream that there was a cup in my hand;
  45. Ghazal 217: O Muslims, there was a time when I had a heart
  46. Ghazal 227: Though these words will not come easy to the preacher of the city:
  47. Ghazal 231: I said: "I grieve for you." He said: "Your grief will come to an end."
  48. Ghazal 232: I am resolved that, if it lies within my power,
  49. Ghazal 234: When the sun of wine rises from the east of the cup,
  50. Ghazal 235: O happy the time when the friend comes back,
  51. Ghazal 236: If that bird of holiness comes back through my door,
  52. Ghazal 237: My breath is spent and my desire from you is not fulfilled;
  53. Ghazal 242: Come, for the banner of the victorious king has arrived;
  54. Ghazal 245: O parrot, you who speak of secrets,
  55. Ghazal 249: East wind, bring a fragrance from the dust of the friend's road;
  56. Ghazal 255: Lost Joseph will come back to Canaan; do not grieve.
  57. Ghazal 260: O cypress of the grace of beauty, who walk so sweetly in your pride,
  58. Ghazal 262: Who will tell again the state of those whose hearts are bleeding?
  59. Ghazal 263: Come, and launch our boat upon the river of wine;
  60. Ghazal 272: Come back, and be the soul's companion to my straitened heart,
  61. Ghazal 300: If a thousand enemies are set on destroying me,
  62. Ghazal 304: Possessor of the world, Helper of the Faith, the perfect sovereign,
  63. Ghazal 305: In the season of the rose I was ashamed of having repented of wine;
  64. Ghazal 310: Welcome, bird of blessed footstep and fortunate message!
  65. Ghazal 312: Good news, for safety has alighted at Dhu Salam;
  66. Ghazal 322: I drew the image of your form in the workshop of my eye;
  67. Ghazal 324: Although a knot has fallen into my affairs from his tress,
  68. Ghazal 331: If he kills me with the sword, I will not hold back his hand;
  69. Ghazal 336: Where is the good news of union with you, that I may rise up out of life itself?
  70. Ghazal 337: Why should I not set my mind on returning to my own land?
  71. Ghazal 339: When the image of your face passes through the rose garden of the eye,
  72. Ghazal 344: For a lifetime, in my seeking, I have been taking a step each day;
  73. Ghazal 353: I will not give up the love of beauty and of the cup;
  74. Ghazal 360: If I go from this ruined halting place towards home,
  75. Ghazal 361: The one who trampled me underfoot with cruelty, like the dust of the road,
  76. Ghazal 365: It is a lifetime since we set our face towards the road of grief for you,
  77. Ghazal 372: Let us pass along the highway of the tavern,
  78. Ghazal 374: Come, let us scatter roses and pour wine into the cup;
  79. Ghazal 382: When you come, recite a Fatiha over one who is worn out with sickness;
  80. Ghazal 385: O Lord, bring that musk-scented deer back to Khotan,
  81. Ghazal 393: It is I who am famous in the city for the practice of love;
  82. Ghazal 408: O you whose beauty has the sun for its mirror-holder,
  83. Ghazal 410: O you on whose stature the robe of kingship fits exactly;
  84. Ghazal 413: The line of down on the friend's cheek, which eclipses the moon,
  85. Ghazal 415: O messenger of the truthful, tell us news of our friend;
  86. Ghazal 416: Welcome is that amber-scented breeze, that longed-for fragrance,
  87. Ghazal 421: The door of the house of the Magians had been swept and sprinkled;
  88. Ghazal 422: O you who have come with the chain of your long tress,
  89. Ghazal 425: He was passing by, trailing his skirt, in fine linen worked with gold;
  90. Ghazal 432: I am languishing from the cup of love: cupbearer, give me wine;
  91. Ghazal 440: At dawn I was telling the wind the story of my longing;
  92. Ghazal 457: I have made a thousand efforts that you might be my friend,
  93. Ghazal 468: Who will carry a message from me, a beggar, to the kings:
  94. Ghazal 469: The scents of the bay tree of the sanctuary have come, and my passion has grown;
  95. Ghazal 472: I praise God for the justice of the sultan,
  96. Ghazal 475: People said that you are a second Joseph;
  97. Ghazal 483: At dawn, a wayfarer in a certain land
  98. Ghazal 491: I have fixed in my eye the eyebrow of one with a face like the moon;
  99. Ghazal 493: O king of the beautiful, save me from the grief of loneliness;
  100. Ghazal 494: O heart, if you come up out of that pit in the chin,