Hafez on Travel and exile

75 ghazals

  1. Ghazal 1: O cupbearer, pass the cup around and hand it on,
  2. Ghazal 14: I said: O sultan of the fair, have mercy on this stranger.
  3. Ghazal 15: O holy beauty, who unties the cord of your veil?
  4. Ghazal 17: My breast has burned with the heart's fire in grief for the beloved;
  5. Ghazal 43: The garden court gives delight and the company of friends is sweet;
  6. Ghazal 45: In this age, the friend who is free of fault
  7. Ghazal 57: That dark-skinned one who has all the sweetness of the world
  8. Ghazal 63: No one has seen your face, and you have a thousand watchers;
  9. Ghazal 68: My moon went away this week, and to my eyes it is a year;
  10. Ghazal 69: There is no one who has not fallen to that double tress;
  11. Ghazal 77: A nightingale held a bright-coloured rose petal in its beak,
  12. Ghazal 78: You saw that the friend had nothing in mind but cruelty and oppression;
  13. Ghazal 88: I have heard a good saying that the old man of Canaan spoke:
  14. Ghazal 89: Lord, find a way for my beloved to come back in safety
  15. Ghazal 90: O hoopoe of the east wind, I am sending you to Sheba;
  16. Ghazal 101: What is wine and pleasure in secret? A work without foundation.
  17. Ghazal 102: Last night the wind brought news of the friend who has travelled;
  18. Ghazal 116: Whoever keeps the beauty and the down of the friend before his eyes,
  19. Ghazal 133: The Sufi set his snare and opened the lid of his box of tricks;
  20. Ghazal 134: A nightingale drank its heart's blood and won a rose;
  21. Ghazal 138: May he be remembered who, when he set out, did not remember us,
  22. Ghazal 140: The heart-stealer went and gave no word to those who had lost their hearts;
  23. Ghazal 144: You will be able to look into the secret of Jamshid's cup
  24. Ghazal 147: Last night the courier of the morning wind brought me word
  25. Ghazal 154: Play a tune to whose music one can heave a sigh;
  26. Ghazal 155: If I go after her, she stirs up trouble;
  27. Ghazal 156: In beauty, character and faithfulness no one comes near our friend;
  28. Ghazal 160: Solitude is sweet if the friend is my friend,
  29. Ghazal 170: The ascetic who sat in seclusion went last night to the tavern;
  30. Ghazal 174: Good news, O heart: the morning breeze has come back;
  31. Ghazal 192: Why does my swaying cypress feel no leaning towards the meadow?
  32. Ghazal 212: Yesterday at dawn a cup or two had come my way,
  33. Ghazal 216: That friend through whom our house was the dwelling of a fairy
  34. Ghazal 222: Whoever goes away from the head of your street in weariness,
  35. Ghazal 225: Cupbearer, the talk is of the cypress, the rose and the tulip,
  36. Ghazal 236: If that bird of holiness comes back through my door,
  37. Ghazal 237: My breath is spent and my desire from you is not fulfilled;
  38. Ghazal 247: East wind, do not grudge a visit to the dwelling of the beloved,
  39. Ghazal 248: O east wind, bring me a fragrance from the street of a certain one;
  40. Ghazal 267: East wind, if you pass along the bank of the river Aras,
  41. Ghazal 269: O heart, your own well-wishing fortune is companion enough for the journey;
  42. Ghazal 270: I have borne such a pain of love: do not ask.
  43. Ghazal 277: The nightingale's whole thought is that the rose should be his friend;
  44. Ghazal 286: Last night a sharp-witted man who knows how things work told me in private,
  45. Ghazal 303: I have caught the breath of affection and seen the lightning of union;
  46. Ghazal 304: Possessor of the world, Helper of the Faith, the perfect sovereign,
  47. Ghazal 308: O you whose face is like paradise and whose ruby lip is its spring,
  48. Ghazal 310: Welcome, bird of blessed footstep and fortunate message!
  49. Ghazal 313: Come back, cupbearer, for I am eager to serve,
  50. Ghazal 333: At the strangers' evening prayer, when I begin to weep,
  51. Ghazal 337: Why should I not set my mind on returning to my own land?
  52. Ghazal 338: I am a lover of a fair face and of hair that draws the heart;
  53. Ghazal 359: Happy the day when I leave this ruined halting place,
  54. Ghazal 360: If I go from this ruined halting place towards home,
  55. Ghazal 366: We have not come to this door in pursuit of pomp and rank;
  56. Ghazal 373: Rise, so that we may carry the Sufi's cloak to the tavern,
  57. Ghazal 380: Many times I have said it, and I say it once more:
  58. Ghazal 382: When you come, recite a Fatiha over one who is worn out with sickness;
  59. Ghazal 383: However much I told my grief to the physicians,
  60. Ghazal 385: O Lord, bring that musk-scented deer back to Khotan,
  61. Ghazal 415: O messenger of the truthful, tell us news of our friend;
  62. Ghazal 423: Last night I went to the tavern door, heavy with sleep,
  63. Ghazal 427: The candle has become the moth of the lamp of your face;
  64. Ghazal 439: I saw in a dream last night that a moon had risen,
  65. Ghazal 448: O you who have a place in the lane of the tavern,
  66. Ghazal 455: Life has gone by in fruitlessness and idle whims;
  67. Ghazal 458: O heart, at the moment when you are ruined by rose-red wine,
  68. Ghazal 461: I wrote the story of my longing while my eyes were weeping;
  69. Ghazal 463: The peace of God, for as long as the nights return
  70. Ghazal 469: The scents of the bay tree of the sanctuary have come, and my passion has grown;
  71. Ghazal 470: My breast is brimful of pain: alas, for a salve!
  72. Ghazal 472: I praise God for the justice of the sultan,
  73. Ghazal 476: Breeze of the morning of good fortune, by the sign that you know,
  74. Ghazal 488: At dawn the voice of the tavern, wishing me well,
  75. Ghazal 489: O you in whose face the lights of kingship are plain to see,