Hafez on Success and work

69 ghazals

  1. Ghazal 12: The moon of beauty takes its light from your shining face;
  2. Ghazal 49: The garden of highest paradise is the retreat of dervishes;
  3. Ghazal 50: In the snare of your tress the heart is its own captive;
  4. Ghazal 58: Our head of devotion and the threshold of the friend's presence,
  5. Ghazal 77: A nightingale held a bright-coloured rose petal in its beak,
  6. Ghazal 83: If a fault came from the hand of your musky tress, it is past;
  7. Ghazal 88: I have heard a good saying that the old man of Canaan spoke:
  8. Ghazal 91: O you who are absent from my sight, I entrust you to God;
  9. Ghazal 98: If in your creed the blood of the lover is lawful,
  10. Ghazal 108: O king, may the ball of the sky be in the curve of your polo stick;
  11. Ghazal 114: The phoenix of the height of happiness will fall into our snare
  12. Ghazal 115: Plant the tree of friendship, for it bears the heart's desire as fruit;
  13. Ghazal 119: The heart that shows the unseen and holds Jamshid's cup,
  14. Ghazal 138: May he be remembered who, when he set out, did not remember us,
  15. Ghazal 144: You will be able to look into the secret of Jamshid's cup
  16. Ghazal 147: Last night the courier of the morning wind brought me word
  17. Ghazal 153: At dawn, when the king of the east planted his banner on the mountains,
  18. Ghazal 154: Play a tune to whose music one can heave a sigh;
  19. Ghazal 169: We see no friendship in anyone; what has become of the friends?
  20. Ghazal 176: At dawn wakeful fortune came to my bedside
  21. Ghazal 183: Last night at the hour of dawn they delivered me from grief,
  22. Ghazal 188: That meddler faults me for being a rend and a lover
  23. Ghazal 190: Your musk-black pen, on the day it remembers us,
  24. Ghazal 191: Who is there that out of generosity will keep faith with us,
  25. Ghazal 194: The jasmine-scented, when they sit down, lay the dust of grief;
  26. Ghazal 198: I said: "When will your mouth and lip grant me my desire?"
  27. Ghazal 212: Yesterday at dawn a cup or two had come my way,
  28. Ghazal 214: I saw in a sweet dream that there was a cup in my hand;
  29. Ghazal 218: Whoever in pre-eternity was found worthy of the bounty of fortune,
  30. Ghazal 227: Though these words will not come easy to the preacher of the city:
  31. Ghazal 237: My breath is spent and my desire from you is not fulfilled;
  32. Ghazal 241: Companions, remember the comrade of your nights;
  33. Ghazal 242: Come, for the banner of the victorious king has arrived;
  34. Ghazal 248: O east wind, bring me a fragrance from the street of a certain one;
  35. Ghazal 255: Lost Joseph will come back to Canaan; do not grieve.
  36. Ghazal 259: It is I who have opened my eyes upon the sight of the friend;
  37. Ghazal 261: Come in, so that strength may come back into the weary heart;
  38. Ghazal 267: East wind, if you pass along the bank of the river Aras,
  39. Ghazal 269: O heart, your own well-wishing fortune is companion enough for the journey;
  40. Ghazal 284: Last night a voice from the corner of the tavern
  41. Ghazal 285: In the reign of the king who forgives faults and covers offences,
  42. Ghazal 291: We have tried our fortune in this city;
  43. Ghazal 296: If my star gives its help, I will bring his skirt into my hand;
  44. Ghazal 298: A place of safety, wine without blemish and a kind friend:
  45. Ghazal 301: O you with whose lip my wounded heart has the claim of salt,
  46. Ghazal 304: Possessor of the world, Helper of the Faith, the perfect sovereign,
  47. Ghazal 312: Good news, for safety has alighted at Dhu Salam;
  48. Ghazal 320: Last night with a flood of tears I was barring the road of sleep;
  49. Ghazal 321: Though I have grown old, weary of heart and feeble,
  50. Ghazal 329: At dawn the Twins laid their sword-belt down before me,
  51. Ghazal 330: You are like the morning, and I am the candle of the solitude of dawn;
  52. Ghazal 344: For a lifetime, in my seeking, I have been taking a step each day;
  53. Ghazal 350: At dawn, meaning to repent, I said: "I will seek guidance by a casting of lots."
  54. Ghazal 366: We have not come to this door in pursuit of pomp and rank;
  55. Ghazal 368: Rise, so that we may seek an opening at the door of the tavern,
  56. Ghazal 381: Although we are the servants of the king,
  57. Ghazal 385: O Lord, bring that musk-scented deer back to Khotan,
  58. Ghazal 393: It is I who am famous in the city for the practice of love;
  59. Ghazal 402: Let me tell you a charming point: look at the mole of that moon-faced one;
  60. Ghazal 410: O you on whose stature the robe of kingship fits exactly;
  61. Ghazal 414: The rose bush of pleasure is in bloom: where is the rose-cheeked cupbearer?
  62. Ghazal 421: The door of the house of the Magians had been swept and sprinkled;
  63. Ghazal 437: O you, of whose lane the story of paradise is but a tale,
  64. Ghazal 445: You who have everything in the world that can be desired,
  65. Ghazal 451: The sky gave you good help on the day of judgement;
  66. Ghazal 454: From the lane of the friend comes the breeze of the New Year wind;
  67. Ghazal 457: I have made a thousand efforts that you might be my friend,
  68. Ghazal 482: O heart, you do not pass through the lane of love;
  69. Ghazal 485: Cupbearer, here are the shade of a cloud, the spring and the bank of a stream;