[1]  O breeze with softness speak to the beautiful fawn the murshid
Saying Thou hast given to us desire for the mountain and the desert the hardship and pain of separation

[2]   The sugar - seller the murshid ,seller of the sugar of Divine knowledge whose life be long why
Maketh he no inquiry of the welfare of the parrot Hafiz ,the disciple sugar of divine knowledge devouring

[3]   O rose murshid ,beautiful as the rose perhaps the pride of beauty hath not given thee permission .
That thou makest no inquiry as to the state full of grief ,void of hypocrisy of the distraught nightingale Hafiz

[4]   By beauty of disposition ,people of vision one can captivate
Not by snare and net ,take they the wise bird .

[5]   I know not why the colour of constancy ,they have not
Those straight of stature ,dark of eye ,moon of face the prophets in the garden of the shar'

[6]   O murshid when thou sittest with the beloved Muhammad and drinkest wine the acquisition of divine bounty
Bring to mind the beloved ones ,wind - measuring astoniedand bewildered

[7]   Of defect in thy beauty ,one cannot speak save to this degree
That the way of love and of constancy belongeth not to the lovely face .

[8]   On the sky ,what if ,of Hafiz's utterances
Zuhra's singing should bring to dancing the Masiha Christ

[1]  Sage Morgenwind mit SchmeichelnJener lieblichen Gaselle,Auf die Berge, in die WüstenHat die Liebe mich getrieben.

[2]  Warum frägt der Zuckerhändler(Herr erhalte ihm das Leben)Warum frägt er nicht ums WohlseynSeines Zucker Papageyes?

[3]  Wisse Rose dir geziemt esNicht so stolz zu seyn, auf SchönheitDaß aus Stolz du nach der irrenNachtigall nicht einmal fragest.

[4]  Nur mit guter Art und WeiseWirst du den Geliebten fangen,Denn es gehen kluge VögelNicht ins Netz und in die Schlinge.

[5]  Wer belehrt mich, warum dieseDunkeln Augen, hohe FormenDiese vollen MondsgesichterMir so gar nicht hold seyn wollen!

[6]  Wenn du bey dem Liebchen sitzestWein an seiner Seite trinkest,O erinnre dich der Freunde,Die umher gleich Winden irren.

[7]  Deiner Schönheit fänd' ich wahrlichGar nichts anders auszusetzen,Als daß insgemein die SchönenNichts von Treu' und Liebe wissen. Für den Umgang mit den Freunden,Für die Gunst des Glückes dankbar,Sey auch eingedenk der Fremden,Die durch Heid' und Wüsten streifen.

[8]  Was ists Wunder wenn im Himmel,Durch Hafisens Lied gewecket,Zu dem Lautenspiele Suhre'sDer Messias Reigen tanzet?

[1]  Sufi a beautiful rose pluck and to the thorn the patched religious garment ,give
For pleasant tasting wine ,this thy dry austerity ,give

[2]   In the path of the harp's melody ,put aside idle talk and fraud
For wine and wine - drinking ,the rosary and the darvish mantle give .

[3]   Excessive austerity that the lovely one and the zahid purchase not ,
In the sward's ring time to spring's fragrant breeze ,give .

[4]   O chief of lovers my path ,ruby wine attacked
In the pit of the beloved's chin ,my blood give .

[5]   O Lord in the rose - season ,pardon the slave's sin
To the cypress of the bank of the stream ,this tale give .

[6]   O thou that hast travelled to the drinking place of thy desire
From this sea of desire me dusty ,a drop give .

[7]   In thanks that the form of idols thy eye beheld not ,
To us ,by the pardon and the favour of the Lord ,work give .

[8]   Saki when the khwaja drinketh the wine of the morning cup ,
Tell him To Hafiz ,night alive keeping ,the cup of gold .

[1]  Frommer komm' und pflücke Rosen,Häng' die Kutte an die Dornen,Tausch' das bittre OrdenslebenEin mit lieblich süßem Weine.

[2]  Klosterbrauch und MönchessitteLaß beim Ton der Laute fahren;Rosenkranz und Stole schenkeFür den guten Wein der Trinkern.

[3]  Schwere Tugend, die der SchenkeDer Geliebte dir nicht abkauft,Gieb im Kreis des FlurenfestesZum Geschenk den Frühlingswinden.

[4]  Der Rubin bezeichnet meinenWeg, o Herrscher der Verliebten,Schenke weg mein Blut an's GrübchenVon dem Kinne meines Freundes.

[6]  Freund, der du den Weg zum TrinkortDeines Wunsches hast gefunden,Schenke an mich Armen einenTropfen dieses Wonnemeeres.

[7]  Dankbar, weil dein Auge niemalsHat gesehen diese Götzen,Wirst du gerne mein VerliebtseynGottes Gnade überlassen.

[8]  Schenke! Wenn nun dein GebietherSeinen Morgensegen trinket,Sag' ihm: schick' den goldnen BecherAn Hafis, der Nächte wachet.

[1]  O true Beloved the form ,all of Thine is beautiful and the place all of Thine ,happy
My heart from the grace of the ruby lip sugar - eating of Thine ,happy .

[2]   Gracious is Thy existence like a fresh rose - leaf
Like the cypress of paradise ,head to foot of Thine ,happy .

[3]   Sweet ,the way of Thy grace beautiful Thy line of down and mole
The eye and the eye - brow of Thine ,adorned the stature and form of Thine ,happy .

[4]   Both ,my fancy the rose - garden full of decoration and adornment of Thine
Also ,my heart ,by the lily - exhaling tress of Thine ,happy .

[5]   In love's path ,where ,from calamity's torrent is no passing ,
My own heart ,I make by the sight of the form of Thine happy .

[6]   O true Beloved before Thy eye ,I die .For ,in that sickness ,
Pain maketh me ,through the adorned cheek of Thine ,happy .

[7]   In the desert of search ,although from every side is danger ,
Hafiz ,heart - bereft ,goeth in love of Thine happy .

[1]  Ha wie herrlich ist nicht deine Form!Dein Ort wie ist er lieblich!Von den Liebkosungen des Mund'sIst mir so im Herzen lieblich.

[2]  Gleich einem frischen RosenblattIst deines Daseyns Weise,Gleich der Cypreß' im ParadiesVom Fuß zum Kopfe lieblich.

[4]  Im Rosenbeet der Fantasie,Strahlt deiner Schönheit ZauberUnd meines Herzens WohlgeruchIst vom Jasmine lieblich.

[5]  Am Weg der Lieb' ist keine FurthIn dem Verderbnißstrome,Mir ist's im Innern des GemüthsDurch deine Freundschaft lieblich.

[6]  Vor deinem Aug' will ich vergeh'nAn dieser Krankheit sterben,Denn es wird aller Gram und SchmerzDurch Wangenglanz mir lieblich.

[7]  Ist in der Wüste gleich der WegUmringet mit Gefahren,So ist Hafisens Schritt dennochWenn er dort wandelt lieblich.

[1]  In the morning for the perfume of the rose ,I kept going into the rose - garden ;
So that ,like the bulbul heart - bereft ,remedy for my brain ,I might make .

[2]   At the face of a rose ,red of hue ,I gazed ,
That ,in the night of darkness ,shone with a luminosity like the lamp :

[3]   Of her beauty and youth ,so proud ,
That ,from the heart of the bulbul of a thousand notes ,repose she kept

[4]   In envy ,the beautiful narcissus let loose water night - dew from her eye
In passion ,the tulip planted a hundred streaks stains in her soul and heart :

[5]   In reproof ,the lily extended her tongue like a sword
Like the man of two women ,the anemone opened her mouth .

[6]   Sometimes ,like the wine - worshipper ,in the hand ,a goblet :
Sometimes ,like the Saki of the intoxicated ,taken in the hand ,a glass .

[7]   The joy of youthful pleasure ,plunder like the rose ,reckon
For ,O Hafiz to the envoy is naught save what is brought the message

[1]  Vom Duft des Rosenbeets gelock'tGieng ich heut' früh in Gärten,Um Nachtigallen gleichMein trunknes Hirn zu heilen.

[2]  Ich sah mit unverwandtem BlickDer Rose in die Augen,Die in der DämmerungWie eine Lampe flammte.

[3]  Sie war auf ihre Schönheit stolzUnd stolz auf ihre Jugend,Weil sich das Herz Bülbül'sIhr ganz ergeben hatte.

[4]  Die liebliche Narziße schloßMit Sehnsucht auf das Auge,Die Tulpen brannten sichAus Neid ein Maal in Busen.

[5]  Die Lilien verlängertenDer Zunge Schwerdt zum Schnupfe,Die Anemone sprachLeis wie ein Ohrenbläser.

[6]  Bald hielt ich Flaschen in der HandGleich wahren Weinverehrern,Bald nahm ich wie der Schenk'Der Trunkenen den Becher.

[7]  Benütze die Gelegenheit,Die Zeit der Lust und Jugend,Hafis braucht ausser demPropheten keine Botschaft.

[1]  'Tis a city full of graceful ones and ,on every side ,an idol .
O friends 'tis love's salutation ,if ye make a bargain .

[2]   More fresh than this ,the sky's eye seetli not a youth
In the hand ,none beheld more beautiful than this an idol .

[3]   Created of soul ,who shall have seen a body
On this skirt ,of these dusty ones be not a particle of dust

[4]   The shattered one like me ,from before thyself wherefore drivest thou
For great expectation is mine ,of a kiss ,or of an embrace .

[5]   Know the wine is without alloy haste the time is opportune
Another year ,who hath hope of a new spring

[6]   In the garden ,companions like the tulip and the rose ,
Each a cup taken to the memory of the face of a friend .

[7]   This knot ,how may I loose This mystery ,how may I unfold
A pain ,and a severe pain a work ,and a difficult work .

[8]   In the hand of the tress ,of a saucy one ,is every thread of Hafiz's hair
'Tis difficult to dwell in a land like this .

[1]  Voll von Zarten ist die Stadt, Ueberall sind Schönheitsbilder, Freunde fangt zu handeln an, Denn es ist die Zeit der Liebe.

[2]  Nie noch hat das Aug' der Welt Frisch're Jünglinge gesehen, Keinem ist ein schön'res Bild In die Hände je gefallen.

[3]  Habt sein Auge ihr geseh'n, Ganz aus Lebensgeist erschaffen? Niemals soll von diesem Staub' Seinen Saum ein Stäubchen drücken.

[4]  Wenn ich ganz zerschlagen bin, Wer kann sich darob wohl wundern? Hab' ich nicht umsonst geharrt Auf Umarmungen und Küsse.

[5]  Eile! sieh' der Wein ist rein, Nütze diese frohen Zeiten, Wer kann für das nächste Jahr Frühlingsfreuden dir versprechen?

[6]  Zwey Gesellen bleiben noch In dem Garten Ros' und Lilie, Beide halten hoch den Kelch Auf des Freundes Angedenken.

[7]  Wenn die Liebe sich entrollt, Das Geheimniß sich aufschließt, Fühl' ich Pein, o harte Pein, Fühl' ich Schmerz, o schwerer Schmerz!

[8]  Immer liegt Hafisens Haar In des Freundes Locken, Schwer ist's wahrlich, lange hier Auf der Wache auszuhalten.

[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 .

[57]   On the day of events of death with cheering wine ,'tis necessary to tell one's grief
For ,on none ,is reliance at a time like this .

[58]   Happy of heart ,in a corner sit and behold
That none keepeth in mind so strange a calamity .

[59]   In the hand of the mean the watcher I keep seeing my idol the beloved
Thus ,the vengeful sky recognised the right of service of one like me .

[60]   In the mirror of the Picture - establisher God the hidden form ,behold
If ,for thee out of the country of contentment ,desire maketh a native land .

[61]   O heart strive thou for patience .For God delivereth not
A seal - ring so precious as patience to the hand of an evil one .

[62]   From the fierce wind of vicissitude ,one cannot see ,
That ,in this sward ,hath been even a red rose ,or a wild white rose .