Hafez on Prayer and trust
54 ghazals
- Ghazal 6: Who will carry this prayer to the attendants of the sultan:
- Ghazal 14: I said: O sultan of the fair, have mercy on this stranger.
- Ghazal 24: Do not ask obedience, vows or right conduct of me, the drunkard,
- Ghazal 33: What need has one who has chosen solitude to go sightseeing?
- Ghazal 44: Now that the rose holds a cup of clear wine in its palm,
- Ghazal 65: What is sweeter than pleasure, company, garden and spring?
- Ghazal 71: The ascetic who worships appearances knows nothing of our state;
- Ghazal 76: Apart from your threshold I have no refuge in the world;
- Ghazal 79: Now that the breeze of paradise blows from the garden,
- Ghazal 80: Do not find fault with the rends, O ascetic of pure nature,
- Ghazal 83: If a fault came from the hand of your musky tress, it is past;
- Ghazal 106: May your body never need the favours of physicians;
- Ghazal 122: Whoever keeps faith with the people of God,
- Ghazal 143: For years the heart was asking us for Jamshid's cup,
- Ghazal 182: You wrote no account of how you are, and some days have passed;
- Ghazal 183: Last night at the hour of dawn they delivered me from grief,
- Ghazal 186: If the wine seller grants the need of the rends,
- Ghazal 187: O heart, burn, for your burning will accomplish things;
- Ghazal 196: Those who with a glance turn dust into gold,
- Ghazal 201: Unmixed wine and a fair cupbearer are two snares on the road,
- Ghazal 216: That friend through whom our house was the dwelling of a fairy
- Ghazal 222: Whoever goes away from the head of your street in weariness,
- Ghazal 226: I fear that my tears will tear the veil from our grief,
- Ghazal 227: Though these words will not come easy to the preacher of the city:
- Ghazal 230: If my heart is drawn to musk-scented wine, it is fitting,
- Ghazal 246: It is the festival, the last of the roses, and the friends are waiting;
- Ghazal 254: Once more from the branch of the straight cypress the patient nightingale
- Ghazal 259: It is I who have opened my eyes upon the sight of the friend;
- Ghazal 275: Sufi, pick a rose and give the patched cloak to the thorn;
- Ghazal 276: If the gardener wants the company of the rose for five days,
- Ghazal 281: O Lord, this smiling new rose that you entrusted to me,
- Ghazal 284: Last night a voice from the corner of the tavern
- Ghazal 285: In the reign of the king who forgives faults and covers offences,
- Ghazal 299: If you drink wine, pour a draught out on the earth;
- Ghazal 321: Though I have grown old, weary of heart and feeble,
- Ghazal 323: Because of my own short reach I am weighed down,
- Ghazal 328: Who am I, that I should pass through that fragrant mind?
- Ghazal 340: I, who from the fire of my heart am seething like the jar of wine,
- Ghazal 351: God forbid that I should give up wine in the season of the rose;
- Ghazal 366: We have not come to this door in pursuit of pomp and rank;
- Ghazal 381: Although we are the servants of the king,
- Ghazal 384: I am burning from separation from you: turn your face away from cruelty.
- Ghazal 385: O Lord, bring that musk-scented deer back to Khotan,
- Ghazal 394: O you whose moon-like face is the new spring of beauty,
- Ghazal 395: Make of the musk-dark hyacinth a veil for the rose petal;
- Ghazal 438: Salma, with the locks on her temples, has taken my heart captive,
- Ghazal 440: At dawn I was telling the wind the story of my longing;
- Ghazal 452: Man and fairy live only by the grace of love's existence;
- Ghazal 455: Life has gone by in fruitlessness and idle whims;
- Ghazal 462: O smiling mouth that is like a casket of pearls,
- Ghazal 463: The peace of God, for as long as the nights return
- Ghazal 467: Of that wine of love by which every raw one is ripened,
- Ghazal 473: Count time as gain, as far as you are able;
- Ghazal 481: Hear this point, and you will free yourself from grief: