[1]  IF into the curl of Thy two tresses ,my hand again should reach ,
With Thy chaugan ,what heads there are that like a ball ,I shall play .

[2]   Long life to me is Thy long tress but there is not
In my hand ,a hair - tip of this long life .

[3]   O candle Beloved give the order for rest .For ,to - night ,
From the heart's fire ,before Thee ,like the consuming candle I melt .

[4]   That moment when ,with a laugh ,life I give up like the flagon ,
I would that a prayer for me Thy intoxicated ones should offer .

[5]   Since the prayer of me stained is not an acceptable prayer
In the wine - house ,on that account less are not my burning and consuming .

[6]   In the masjid and in the wine - house ,if Thy image come ,
Of Thy two eye - brows ,I make the prayer - arch of praying and the lute of wailing

[7]   If ,one night with Thy face ,my khilvat ,Thou illumine ,
Like the morning in the horizons of the world ,my head ,I exalt .

[8]   In this path of love laudable is the end of love's work ,
If ,in desire of passion for Ayaz the true Beloved my head goeth .

[9]   Hafiz the heart's grief ,to whom shall I utter
Not fit is it that ,save the cup ,the confidant of mystery be mine .

[1]  Wenn ich zur Spitze der Locken gelangte, Schlug' ich viel Köpfe als Schlägel davon.

[2]  Wohl wird durch Locken das Leben verlängert, Aber noch ward mir kein Härchen davon,

[3]  Kerze, o gieb mir des Schmetterlings Ruhe, Denn ich zerschmelze vor dir wie das Wachs.

[4]  Wenn ich wie Flaschen die Seele verlache Wünsch' ich, daß Trunk'ne leben für mich.

[5]  Weil mein Gebet nicht befreyt ist von Mackeln, Hör' ich nicht auf in den Schenken zu fleh'n,

[6]  Wenn ich in Schenken, in Tempeln dich sehe, Mach' ich die Brauen zum hohen Altar.

[7]  Wenn dein Gesicht mein Gemach einst erleuchtet, Heb ich den Kopf wie der Morgen empor.

[8]  Endlich gelingt es mir doch wie Mahmuden Wenn ich verliere den Kopf für Ajas.

[9]  Könnte Hafis sein Geheimniß vertrauen, Da zum Vertrauten das Glas Er nur hat?

[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 mouth ,thou resembleth a casket of pearls
O Lord around thy face ,how fit became the line of a new moon

[2]   Now ,me ,the vain fancy of union with Thee pleasantly deceiveth
Let us see what picture ,sporteth this form of a vain fancy .

[3]   Wine ,give .For ,though black of book of the world ,I became
Hopeless of the grace of the Eternal ,when can one be

[4]   Saki a cup bring and ,me ,forth from khilvat put
So that ,crafty and nothing - earning ,door to door ,I may wander .

[5]   If learned and wise thou be ,let not go four things
Safety ,wine void of alloy ,the Beloved ,and the void place the desert of solitude

[6]   Since time's picture is in no way fixed ,
Hafiz complaint ,make not wine ,let us drink .

[7]   Pure is the cup of the heart in the time of the Asaf of the age ,
Arise and cause me to drink of a cup of wine purer than limpid water .

[8]   Verily ,the country boasteth of him and of his efforts
Lord ever be this rank and this sublimity

[9]   The seat - kindler of the fortune of the mine of pomp and of grandeur ,
The proof of the country and of religion ,is Abu Nasr Abu - 1 - Mu'ali .

[1]  Der du aus finsterer Nacht so freundlich mein Schicksal belächelst, Sage, was will der Hof dort um den leuchtenden Mond?

[2]  Deines Genusses Traum hat mich so lange betrogen, Wie viel Gestalten nimmt noch dein Zauberbild an! Blutigen Herzens bin ich durch sein betrunkenes Auge, In der Liebe folgt Wunder auf Wunder sich nach. Blutig sind Herz und Aug', und Körper und Seele vertrocknet, Dieses kommet mir, jenes der Liebe zu Schuld,

[3]  Bin ich gleich schwarz im Weltenbuche gezeichnet, gieb Wein her! Wer verzweifelt wohl je an der ewigen Huld!

[4]  Schenke bringe das Glas, entreiß' mich dem einsamen Leben, Daß ich von Thüren zu Thür' luftig geschürzet herumgeh'. Billig fand's die Geliebte, mit meinem Blute zu spielen, Molla's saget, was ist Inhalt des Liebefetwa? Reiter, zu was bedarfst du wohl Begleiter und Führer, Findest du einen aus Redschd, gieb ihm Kunde von mir. Nimmer ruhet mein Aug' aus Sehnsucht nach Redschedens Gebirgen, Und mein trübes Herz kämpfet mit großer Beschwerd'. Gott! dir gehöret die Wüste, worinn die Geliebte sich aufhält, Einer Gaselle Blick hat die Gemüther verwirrt.

[5]  Bist du weise und schlau, so thue Verzicht auf vier Dinge, Nämlich auf Ruhe und Wein, Liebchen und Einsamkeit auch.

[6]  Keine einzigen Augenblick ist das Schicksal beständig, Klag' nicht, Hafis, dafür wollen wir trinken jetzt Wein.

[7]  Rein ist das Glas des Gemüths zur Zeit Aßafes, des Weisen, Auf und schenke mir ein von dem lautersten Wein!

[8]  Weit hat sich vergrößert der König durch Herrschaft und Reichthum, Ewig daure, o Herr, ewig die Größe und Macht.

[9]  Sieh' es sitzet hoch auf dem Polster des Glückes des Reiches, Königen, Völkern ein Licht, Abunaßr voll Glanz.

[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 .

[63]   From this simum blast of lust that ,by the garden - borders ,passed ,
Wonder that from the heart of love's lust the colour of a rose remaineth ,or the perfume of a jessamine .

[64]   I have heard that ,for dogs ,thou appointest a collar
On Hafiz's neck ,why placest thou not a rope

[65]   Hafiz in this calamity ,ruined became time's temper
Where is the thought of a physician or the judgment of a Barhaman

[66]   Drink the cup of the wine of unity of a man
So that ,by it grief's root ,up from the heart ,thou mayst pluck .

[67]   Expanded ,keep the heart ,like the cup of wine
Head closed how long like a large jar

[68]   When ,from the jar of selflessness ,a ritl thou drinkest ,
Less of thyself voluntarily thou boastest of self .

[69]   Like the humble and worthless stone at thy foot be ,not like the water of the cloud glorying in sublimity
All colour of deceit ,thou mixest and wet of skirt lust - stained thou art .

[70]   To wine ,bind the heart ,so that ,like a man ,
The neck of hypocrisy and of piety thou mayst shatter .

[71]   Arise ,and ,like Hafiz ,an effort in the service of the Pir of tarikat make so that ,perchance ,
Thyself ,at the true Beloved's foot ,thou mayest cast .

[72]   Tis morning ; and ,droppeth hail from the cloud of the winter - month Bahman
The requisites of the morning cup ,prepare and give a cup of one ' man .'

[73]   The blood red wine of the cup ,drink for lawful is its blood
In the work of the cup ,engaged be ; for 'tis a work fit to be done .

[74]   If ,at dawn ,thee ,wine - sickness give headache ,
Verily ,best ,that the forehead of the vintner ,thou shatter .

[75]   Saki at hand to give the cup be for ,in ambush for us ,is grief
Minstrel so that grief may not reach us keep this very path of song that thou singest .

[76]   Give wine for ,the secret to my ear ,the harp hath brought and said
Happily pass life and ,hear this bowed Pir the harp