[1]  Ravished is my heart by one like a singing girl ,clamour - exciter ,
False of promise ,slayer by nature ,and colour of deceit mixer .

[2]   A ransom for the rent garment of those of moon - face ,be
A thousand garments of piety and the khirka of austerity

[4]   In thanks for that that ,in beauty ,thou tookest from the glorious angel the ball of superiority ,
The cup ,demand and on Adam's dust ,a little water sprinkle .

[5]   In my coffin ,put up the cup so that ,on the morning of rising ,
I may ,with wine ,take from my heart the terror of the day up - rising and springing .

[6]   Poor and shattered ,to Thy court ,I have come .A little pity ,
For ,save attachment to Thee ,attachment ,mine is none .

[7]   Come for last night ,to me ,the invisible messenger spake ,
Saying In contentment's stage ,be from destiny ,flee not .

[8]   Between the lover and the Beloved ,veil is none
Hafiz thou thyself art thy own veil .From the midst ,arise and attain unto the Beloved .

[1]  Ich bin ein Freund des Herzen entflammenden Wortes nicht dessenWelches Wasser auf flammende Gluth gießt.

[2]  Weggeführt ist mein Herz von einem schelmischen AugeEinem Lügner, Betrüger und Mörder.

[4]  Mondgesichtern die uns mit zerschlitzten Hemden erscheinenBring' ich der Frömmigkeit Kleider zum Opfer.

[5]  Dankbar dafür, daß eine Schönheit wie du auf die Welt kamGieße Wein auf adamischen Staub aus.

[6]  Bind' mir den Becher aufs Grab, daß in den Stunden des MorgensIch die Furcht des Gerichts mir vertrinke.

[7]  Arm und wund erschein ich vor dir, erbarme dich meinerDeine Liebe nur bring' ich als Gabe.

[8]  Komm! sprach gestern zu mir der leitende Führer der SchenkeDu ergieb dich und flieh nicht das Schicksal. Sey nicht stolz auf eigne Gewalt, die Geschichte erzähltTausend Dinge die Mächtige stürzen.

[1]  If thou be the compassionate friend ,true of covenant ,be :
The companion of the closet in grief and of the hot bath and of the rose - garden in ease be .

[2]   To the power of wine ,the curl of thy dishevelled tress give not so that its perfume may not agitate lovers
Speak not saying Say ,lovers' hearts agitated be .

[3]   If thine be desire to be in exaltation fellow - sitter with Khizr ,
Hidden from Sikandar's eye ,like the water of life ,be .

[4]   Not the work of every bird is the power of love - playing
Come and of the bulbul ,ghazal singing Hafiz the new rose beloved be .

[5]   The path of service ,and the usage of attendance - making
For God's sake ,let go to us and Sultan be .

[6]   On the prey the lovers of God of the sacred fold ,again draw not forth the sword .Take care
Of what thou hast done with our heart ,penitent ,be

[7]   O true Beloved the candle of the assembly Thou art one of tongue ,one of heart ,be
The fancy of the moth's effort in sparing not its own life behold and laughing consuming like the candle be .

[8]   In glance - playing ,is the perfection of heart - ravishingness and beauty of beloved ones
Of the crowd of the rare ones of the age ,in the art of viewing and comprehending others be .

[9]   Hafiz silence and of the Beloved's violence ,bewail not
Who spake to thee saying At the lovely face of the Beloved astonied be

[1]  Hast du einen trauten FreundTreu in Worten sey.So im Bad als RosenbeetSein Begleiter sey.

[2]  Gieb des durchgewühlten Haar'sKrause nicht dem Wind',Daß nicht der Verliebten SinnGanz zerrüttet sey!

[3]  Wünschest du allein zu seynUnd mit Chiser gut.Du für Alexandern dannLebenswasser sey!

[4]  Nicht ein jeder Vogel singtSüßen Liebeston,Komm' und für die NachtigallEine Rose sey!

[5]  Uebertrage mir die PflichtTreu zu seyn als Knecht,Uebertrag' sie mir bey Gott!Und du Kaiser sey!

[6]  Zieh' nicht noch einmal das SchwertIn dem Heiligthum;Und für das was du gethanGanz zerknirschet sey!

[7]  Eine Zunge und ein HerzHaben unsre Kerzen.Sieh' des Schmetterlings Bemüh'n,Ob es nicht zum Lachen sey.

[8]  Aller Reiz und Schönheit liegtIn dem Minnespiel'.Du daher in diesem SpielUnerreichbar sey!

[9]  Schweig' Hafis und klage nichtUeber Freundes Schuld,Wer befahl, daß ihr GesichtAnzustaunen sey!

[1]  O Thou that hast the resplendent sun ,the mirror - holder of the beauty of Thine ;
And the musk dark fragrant tress ,the censer - circulator of the dark mole of Thine

[2]   The court - yard of the palace of the eye ,I washed .But what profit
Not fit is this retired corner for the troop of the fancy of love of Thine .

[3]   O sun of beauty in the height of grace and graciousness ,thou art
O Lord till the up - standing the resurrection be no decline of Thine

[4]   More agreeable than Thy picture ,no picture ,delineated ,
The Tughra - scribe God ,great and glorious the musky dark beperfumed eye - brow like the eye - brow of Thine .

[5]   O poor heart in the curl of His tress ,how art thou
For perturbed ,the morning breeze uttered the circumstances of thine

[6]   O beloved hath risen the perfume ,of the rose by the door of friendship come and union choose
O fresh spring of ours the auspicious face is the omen of Thine .

[7]   So that of the crowd of our beringed ones slaves the sky may be ,
Where ,the charm of an eye - brow like the new crescent moon of Thine

[8]   So that offering congratulation ,I may go back to fortune ,
Where ,the glad tidings of the approach of the 'idd of the union - of Thine

[9]   This dark spot ,that became the centre of luminosity ,
Is in the fold of vision ,only a reflection of the dark mole of Thine .

[10]   Before the Khwaja ,which hardship shall I represent
The explanation of my own need was the displeasure of Thine .

[11]   Hafiz in this noose the beloved's tress is the head of many a headstrong one ;
Crude passion ,indulge not ; for it is not the power of thine .

[1]  Die Sonne ist der Spiegelhalter Von deiner Schönheit, Der Moschus ist das schwarze Rauchfaß Von deinem Maale.

[2]  Ich habe meiner Augen Hofraum Zwar rein gewaschen, Allein, was nützt es, dieser Winkel Ist deiner unwerth.

[3]  Es stehet im Zenith der Anmuth Die Schönheits-Sonne! O Herr! bis an das End' der Welten Geh' sie nicht unter!

[4]  Es mahlte der Diplomenmahler Von Moschusbrauen, Bisher kein schöneres Gemählde, Als deine Formen.

[6]  Es steigen auf des Friedens Düfte, O komm' zu mir her! Du bist für uns mit deinen Wangen Der junge Frühling.

[7]  Wann werden deine Augenbrauen Mir wieder schmeicheln? Damit ich selbst den Himmel zähle Zu meinem Sklaven.

[8]  O gieb beim Feste des Genusses Mir Freundenkunde, Damit ich zu dem Schicksal wieder Mit Menschen kehre.

[9]  Der schwarze Punkt des Augenapfels, Des Lichtes Ausfluß, Ist nur des Licht, das wiederstrahlet Von deinem Maale.

[10]  Wie soll ich wohl vor meinem Herren Mein Leiden klagen! Wo fang' ich an bei meinen Bitten? Bei deinen Härten?

[11]  Hafis, der Närrischen sind Viele In diesen Banden, Laß dir nichts Wildes träumen, Das dir nicht ziemet.

[1]  O thou that art ever proud of thyself f
If love be not thine ,excused thou art .

[2]   Around those distraught of love ,wander not
For ,for the best wisdom ,renowned thou art .

[3]   O father of lust not in thy head is love's intoxication
Go no access to me is thine for ,with the wine of the grape ,intoxicated thou art .

[4]   The yellow grief - stricken face ,and the grief - stained sigh are
For lovers ,the evidence of affliction .

[5]   Hafiz thy own name and fame ,abandon
The cup of wine ,seek for wine - sick ,thou art .

[6]   For thee ,it is necessary to practise love for that moon ,
Though ,like the sun ,famous thou art .

[1]  Dir, auf deine Schönheit Stolzem Ist's verzeihlich, nicht zu lieben;

[2]  Liebenden geh' nicht zu nahe Du durch Weisheit Allberühmter!

[3]  Du kennst nicht den Rausch der Liebe, Kennest nur den Rausch des Weines.

[4]  Blässe und die Seufzer zeugen Von der Liebe schweren Krankheit. Ohne Wein und ohne Mädchen Gäb's in Eden keine Freude. Buhl' um dieses Mondes Liebe, Und wär'st du auch eine Sonne.

[5]  Thu' Verzicht, Hafis, auf Leumund, Fodre Wein, du bist berauschet.

[1]  O heart that moment when ,intoxicated with wine rose of hue ,thou art
Without gold and treasure ,with a hundred pomps of Karun thou art .

[2]   In the stage where to fakirs the seat of wazlrship ,they give ,
I expect that above all in rank thou art .

[3]   In the path to the abode of Laila the true Beloved wherein are dangers ,
The first condition of its step is ,that Majnun the perfect lover thou be .

[4]   Thee ,love's centre I showed .Ho mistake make not
If not ,when thou lookest outside of the circle of lovers thou art .

[5]   Departed ,the karvan of thy fellow - travellers and ,in sleep ,thou art and the desert is in front
O heart I know not how thou goest from whom ,the path thou askest what thou doest how in this desert ,ignorant of the path ,alone thou art .

[6]   The kingly crown ,thou seekest the essence perfection of thy own nature ,display
If ,indeed ,of the essence the race of Jamshid and of Firidun thou be .

[7]   A cup ,drink and on the skies ,a draught ,cast
On .account of time's grief ,the liver of blood of grief how long ,how long art thou

[8]   Hafiz of poverty ,bewail not .For ,if this be thy poetry ,
Appeareth no one happy of heart ,that sorrowful thou shouldst be .

[1]  Mein Herz! wenn du vom rothen Wein Zu Grund gerichtet bist, So wisse, daß du ohne Gold Reich wie Karun einst bist.

[2]  Wenn man die Ehrenstellen einst Den Armen wird verleih'n, So hoffe ich, daß du alsdann, Weit mehr als alle bist.

[3]  Auf Leila's Pfad, der voll Gefahr Und voll Beschwerde ist, Ist vor dem Andern Allem noth, Daß ein Medschnun du bist.

[4]  Ich zeigte dir der Liebe Punkt, Gieb acht und irre nicht, Daß du, indessen du hinsiehst, Nicht aus dem Zirkel bist.

[5]  Die Karawane ist schon fort, Du schlägst der Trägheit Schlaf, Wen fragest, und was machst du denn, Ey sage, wie du bist.

[6]  Du geizest nach dem Fürstenthron, Zeig deine Eigenschaft, Und wenn du aus dem Stamm Dschemschids Und Feridunens bist.

[7]  Du trink den Becher aus, und wirf Die Hefen himmelan, Weil du genug vom Gram der Zeit Mit Blut beflecket bist.

[8]  Hafis beklag' die Armuth nicht, Sind diese Lieder dein, So wird kein Edler zugesteh'n, Daß du betrübet bist.

[1]  God ,I praise for the justice of the great Sultan
Ahmad bin Shaikh Uvais bin Hasan Ilkhani .

[2]   Khan bin Khan ,Shahinshah of Shahin - shah - descent
That one ,whom ,if thou call the soul of the world 'tis well .

[3]   Confidence in thy fortune bringeth he who hath seen and he who hath not seen
Excellent O thou that art worthy of such grace of God .

[4]   If ,without thee ,the moon ascend ,it in two halves they dash
The fortune of Ahmad Muhammad and the miracle of a Holy one God

[5]   Heart from king and beggar ,the splendour of thy fortune ravisheth
Far be the evil - eye ,for both soul thou art ,and also the beloved thou art .

[6]   Turk - like ,the forelock arrange .For ,in thy fortune ,is
The liberality of a Khakan and the energy of a Chingiz Khan .

[7]   Though apparently far ,we are ,to thy recollection the goblet ,we drink
For ,in the spiritual journey ,distance of stage is none .

[8]   Not a rose - bud of ease blossomed from my Persian clay
Excellent the Tigris of Baghdad and the fragrant wine .

[9]   The lover's head that was not the dust of the Beloved's door ,
From the labour of head - revolvingness ,when is freedom his

[10]   O morning breeze the dust of the Beloved's path ,bring
That ,luminous with it ,the eye of his heart ,Hafiz may make .

[11]   Time consider plunder to that degree that thou canst
O soul the out - come of life is only this moment if thou knowesfr .

[12]   The desire - giving of the sphere hath life in barter ,
Strive that ,from fortune ,the justice of ease thou mayst take .

[13]   The counsel of lovers ,hear and out from the door of joy come
For all this is not worth the occupation of a transitory world .

[14]   Before the zahid ,boast not of profligacy .For one cannot utter
To the physician ,not the confidant ,the state of a hidden pain .

[15]   Gardener when hence I pass ,be it unlawful to thee ,
If ,in my place ,a cypress other than the beloved thou plant

[16]   The jar - shatterer knoweth not this value that to the sufi ,
Is a household chattel like a pomegranate ruby .

[17]   Thou goest and ,the people's blood ,thy eye - lashes shed
O soul fiercely impetuously thou goest fear is ,behind ,thou wilt remaim .

[18]   O sweet mouth with the prayer of the night - risers ,strive not
In the shelter of the one ineffable name of God is the seal having the quality of a Sulaiman .

[19]   Aside from the glance of Thy eye ,my heart ,I kept .But ,
Thy eyebrow ,bow - possessor ,taketh the heart by its forehead .

[20]   O brothers compassion .Went my precious Yusuf ,
For grief for whom ,wonderful in wretchedness I beheld thestate of the old man Y'akub of Kin'an .

[21]   The wine's delight will slay the penitent zahid
O sage do not a deed ,that bringeth penitence .

[22]   One day ,by my door ,enter ,so that ,with joy ,the hand I may clap ;
Saying : Verily ,joined to me is luminosity as a guest .

[23]   With kindness ,tranquillise Hafiz's heart ,
O Thou ,whose beauteous tress - coil is the assembly - place perfection of dispersion

[24]   O idol ,stony of heart if of me careless thou be ,
My own state ,I will utter before Asaf the second .

[25]   O true Beloved Thy well - wisher ,I am ,and this I know that Thou knowest
For ,both the un - seen ,Thou seest ; and also the un - written by fate Thou readest .

[26]   In the adoration of Adam ,the angel made resolve of thy ground - kiss ,
For ,in Thy beauty ,something he found more than the way ,. human .

[27]   Thy tress's curl is now ,in God's name ,the collectedness of hearts
Be safety thine ,from that breeze that exciteth dispersion

[28]   From fortune ,I have the hope that his girdle I may loose
O sky for God's sake ,for me loose the knot frown from the forehead .

[29]   O true Beloved dishevel Thy tress and ,to sport and to dancing ,bring the Sufi people of the world
That ,from every patch of his ragged garment ,thousands of idols of hypocrisy Thou mayst scatter .

[30]   The lamp - kindler of our eye is the breeze of the tress of lovely ones
Lord to this gathering smoo .th state of the tress be not grief for the breeze of dispersion

[31]   Of the mystery of the lover and of the Beloved ,what gaineth the reproacher
The non - seeing eye especially seeth not a secret mystery .

[32]   To be vexed with fellow way - farers ,is not the action of a work - knower
The difficulty of the stage ,endure in memory of a time of ease .

[33]   Alas that pleasure of night - sitting up that passed swiftly like the morning breeze
O heart the value of union ,thou knowest ,only when behind in separation thou remainest .

[34]   The solving of the work of desirous ones is in that heart - binding eye - brow
For God's sake ,a moment with towards us unloose the knot frown from thy forehead .

[35]   Hafiz thee ,the fancy of the yoke of His tress fascinates
See ,so that the ring of impossible fortune ,thou shake not .

[36]   People spake ,saying In beauty a second Yusuf thou art
When ,well ,I looked ,verily better than that I had heard thou art .

[37]   Sweeter than that which ,with sweet smile ,they say thou art ,
Khusrau of the lovely ones for ,the Shirin of the age ,thou art .

[38]   To the folded rose - bud ,thy mouth ,one cannot compare
Never is the rose - bud with this narrow - mouthness .

[39]   If ,on account of thy stature and gait ,the moving cypress remained behind in its place ,
Move thou .For thou hast surpassed the moving cypress in movingness .

[40]   A hundred times Thou saidest : From this mouth ,thy desire I give
Like the noble ten - tongued lily ,why art Thou all a tongue

[41]   Thou saidest Thy desire ,I will give thy life ,I wilt take
I fear my desire ,Thou givest not and my life Thou wilt take .

[42]   Through the shield of my life ,Thy sick ,languishing eye causeth to pass the poplar arrow
The eye sick ,who hath seen with so strong a bow

[43]   O true Beloved like the worthless tear from the eye of man ,him Thou easiest ,
Him ,whom a moment ,away from Thy sight ,Thou drivest .

[44]   Away from before Thyself ,Thy own grief - stricken Hafiz ,drive not
For ,through love for Thy face ,he gave sacrificed heart ,faith ,and youth .

[45]   In the path of love to Thee ,like the pen ,a foot out of his head Hafiz made ,
It ,one moment ,like a letter out of kindness ,why readest Thou not

[46]   Breeze of the morning of happiness for that trace that thou knowest ,
To a certain one's street ,pass at that time that thou knowest .

[47]   The footman of the chamber of mystery ,thou art and on the head of the Path ,is my eye
By manliness ,hot by order ,urge in that way ,that thou knowest .

[48]   Say : From my hand passed my feeble soul .For God's sake ,
From Thy ruby lip soul - refreshing ,give that that Thou knowest .

[49]   O true Beloved these few words I wrote ,in such a way that the stranger hath not known
Them by way of kindness ,do Thou also read in such a way that Thou knowest .

[50]   On Thy girdle ,gold - woven ,hope how may I not establish
O idol in that waist ,is a subtlety that Thou knowest .

[51]   With us ,the image of Thy slaying sword is the tale of the thirsty one and of water whereto he desireth to reach
Thy own captive ,Thou seizest .Slay in such a way that Thou knowest .

[52]   Hafiz in this matter ,one are Turki and Tazi Arabian
Love's tale ,relate in every tongue language that thou knowest .

[53]   Two friends holy travellers good of understanding ,and of old wine a quantity ,two mans ,'
A little leisure ,and a book ,and a sward - corner .

[54]   For this ,and the next ,world I give not this state
Though ,of carpers momently ,fall upon me

[55]   Every one who ,for the world's treasure ,gave the treasure of contentment ,
Sold ,the precious Yusuf of Egypt for a very paltry sum .

[56]   Come ; for not less becometh the amplitude of this workshop the world
By the austerity of one like thee or ,by the profligacy of one like me .