[1]  O thou ,from the splendour of whose cheek ,is joyous the tulip - bed of life
Come back for ,without the rose of thy cheek ,spilleth the spring of life .

[2]   If ,like rain ,the tear drop from my eye ,it is lawful
For ,in grief for thee ,like lightning swiftly in tumult passed the time of life .

[3]   These moments ,one or two ,when the fortune of seeing Thee O Beloved is possible ,
Discover our work the fortune of seeing Thee For ,not revealed is the work of life .

[4]   Till when art thou careless and senseless in the wine of the morning ,and the sweet sleep of dawn ,
Ho be wakeful for passed hath the choice of life -

[5]   Yesterday ,He the Beloved passed and towards me glanced not
O helpless heart that saw naught of profit from the passing of life .

[6]   Of the ocean of effacement no thought is his to whom ,
On the point of thy mouth ,the hidden mystery is the centre of life .

[7]   From every quarter of the world is the ambuscade of the troop of vicissitudes
In that way of thought ,rein - drawn ,impetuously ,saying God forbid I should be captive to vicissitude runneth the horseman of life .

[8]   Without life ,alive I am .This ,esteem no great wonder
The day of separation ,who placeth in the reckoning of life .

[9]   Hafiz utter speech .For ,on earth's surface ,
Of thy eloquence ,only this picture remaineth ,the recollection of life .

[1]  Du, deren WangenglanzErfrischt das Tulpenbeet des Lebens,Komm'! ohne dein GesichtVerwelkt der Frühlingsglanz des Lebens.

[2]  Recht ist's, wenn Thränen mirWie Regen von den Augen fließen,Denn wie der Blitz verschwandIm Gram um dich die Zeit des Lebens.

[3]  In diesem AugenblickWo du des Glückes Antlitz schauest,Bereite dir dein Loos,Verborgen ist das Loos des Lebens.

[4]  Wie lang' noch Morgenwein!Wie lang' noch süßer Schlaf am Morgen!Erwach! erwach! vorbeiIst längstens schon die freye Wahl des Lebens.

[5]  Sie gieng bei mir vorbei,Doch ohne auf mich her zu sehen,O! armes Herz, das nichtsGenoß im Uebergang des Lebens.

[6]  Den grauen Schlund des NichtsWird jeder Glückliche verhöhnen,Der deines Mundes PunktErkohr zum Mittelpunkt des Lebens.

[7]  Von allen Seiten drohtIm Hinterhalt' ein Heer Gefahren,Verhängten Zaumes sprengtDavon der Reiter unsers Lebens.

[8]  Selbst lebenslos bin ichLebendig, dies soll dich nicht wundern,Wer zählt den TrennungstagWohl zu den Tagen seines Lebens.

[9]  Hafis, o sprich ein Wort,Denn auf der Erde weiter FlächeBleibt deiner Feder Bild,Ein Denkmal deines Lebens.

[1]  Again ,from the branch of the straight cypress ,the patient bulbul
Shouted glad tidings ,saying From the face of the rose ,far be the evil eye

[2]   O rose beloved in thanks that ,to thy heart's desire ,thou blossomedest ,
With bulbuls ,the distraught lover ,display no pride .

[3]   Against the hand of thy absence ,no complaint ,I make
So long as long absence is none ,no great pleasure giveth the presence of the beloved

[4]   If ,joyous and gladsome in pleasure and joy others be ,
For us ,the grief of love for the idol the true Beloved is joy's source .

[5]   Hopeful of Hur and of palaces above if the Zahid be ,
For us ,the wine - house is the palace and the beloved ,the Hur .

[6]   To the sound of the harp ,drink wine and suffer no grief .If any one
Speak to thee saying : Wine ,drink not for 'tis sin say : The forgiver is God .

[7]   Hafiz complaint of grief of separation ,why makest thou
In separation ,is union in darkness ,light

[1]  Horchet die Nachtigall sing't nun wieder vom Zweig' der Cypreße.Böses Auge sey fern, fern von der Rose Gesicht!

[2]  Rose, aus Dank dafür, daß du bist der Schönheit SultaninnZeig' in der Liebe dich nicht gegen die Nachtigall stolz.

[3]  Klagen will ich fürwahr! nicht über deine Entfernung,Wer die Entfernung nicht kennt, kennt nicht der Gegenwart Glück.

[4]  Andern ist Freude und Lust der Quell des fröhlichen Sinnes,Mir ist der Liebe Gram Quelle von Freuden und Lust.

[5]  Hoffen die Frommen auf Köschk' und Mädchen im himmlischen Garten,Hab' ich hienieden schon Mädchen und Köschk in der Schenk'!

[6]  Trinke Wein bei der Laute Getön und wenn sie dir sagenEs ist verboten, so sag': Gott ist es, welcher verzeiht!

[7]  Sage Hafis was klagst du über die Trennung?Dann aus Finsterniß kömmt Licht und aus Trennung Genuß.

[1]  O Saki arise and into the cup of gold ,joyous water wine the intoxication of love cast
Before that the cap of the head the skull dust becometh cast .

[2]   In the end ,our dwelling is the valley of the silent the place of tombs
Now into the vault of the skies ,the resounding shout and clamour of zikr va fikr cast

[3]   Far from the true Beloved's face ,is the eye stained with sight for other than God
On His face ,from the pure mirror of the pure heart glance cast .

[4]   O cypress I conjure thee by thy verdant head ,when I become dust ,
Out from thy head ,disdain put and ,on this my dust ,shade cast .

[5]   For our heart that ,from the deadly snake of Thy tress - tip ,is shattered
From Thy own lip to the recovery - house ,the antidote of a kiss cast .

[6]   The country of this sown - field the world thou knowest that it hath no permanency
Into the countries of the world from the liver of the wine cup ,the murshid's interior a great fire' cast .

[7]   In my own tears ,I bathed .For the people of tarikat say
First be pure then ,on the beauty of that Pure One ,the true Beloved thy eye cast .

[8]   O Lord that zahid ,self - beholding ,who ,save defect ,saw naught ,
Into the mirror of his understanding so that he may ,no longer ,see defect the smoke of a great sigh cast .

[9]   Hafiz like the rose ,on account of His perfume make rent thy garment
And ,in the path of that form of the Beloved swift for the slaughter of lovers that rent garment cast .

[1]  Steh' auf! gieße mir fröhliches Naß in den goldenen BecherEhe dein Schädel zum Staube den Staub gießt.

[2]  Unsere Wohnung zuletzt ist die schweigende Wohnung der Gräber,Jetzt erhebe den Jubel zum Himmel,

[3]  Augen mit trübem Blick sind ferne vom Antlitz des FreundesSchau' ihn an mit der Reinheit des Spiegels.

[4]  Ich beschwöre dich Wuchs der Cypreße beim grünenden WipfelBin ich Staub beschatte mein Grabmal.

[5]  Meinen Lippen vom Pfeil der Schlangenlocken verwundetLeg Teriak aus dem heilenden Mund auf.

[6]  Alle Saaten der Erde vergehen das weißt du seit langenZünde die Welt mit dem Feuer des Weins an.

[7]  Thränen reinigen uns indem die Lehrer uns sagenSey erst rein, dann schaue den Reinen.

[8]  Herr! der selbstische Mönch, Er, welcher Gebrechen nur schauetWerde blind von dem Rauche der Seufzer.

[9]  Wie die Rose Hafis! zerreiß die Kleider vor ihremWohlgeruch, und verstreu' sie vor ihr hin.

[1]  Lover of the face youthful ,joyous ,newly blossomed tender of age am I
And ,from God the joy of this grief of love with prayer sought have I .

[2]   Lover ,profligate ,glance - player ,I am and it openly ,I say
That thou mayest know that ,with so many excellences ,adorned am I .

[3]   Cometh shame to me ,of the wine - stained khirka ,
Whereon ,the patch with a hundred arts of hypocrisy ,decorated have I .

[4]   O candle for grief for Him ,happily consume .For ,behold ,also ,
In this very work ,loin - girt and upstanding am I

[5]   In astonishment like this ,went from my hand ,my work's gain
In grief ,increased have I that which ,in respect of heart and of soul decreased have I .

[6]   To the tavern ,I go like Hafiz clad in the garment of the kaba
It may be that into His bosom ,me ,that Heart - ravisher ,newly blossomed youthful may draw .

[1]  In einen frischen Jüngling bin ich verliebt,Ich habe von Gott mir diesen Gram erbeten;

[2]  Ich bin berauscht, verliebt, und sage es laut,Damit du hieraus erkennest meine Tugend.

[3]  Ich schäme mich des Weins beflecket mit Wein,Ich hab es mit Listen und mit Trug geflicket.

[4]  O Kerze! brenn' gelind vor Schmerzen bei ihm,Ich habe mich selber diesem Amt geeignet.

[5]  Ich staunte, und es floh von mir mein Gewinn,An Schmerzen gewann ich, was am Geist entflohen.

[6]  Daß mich vielleicht der frische Jüngling umarmt,Will ich Hafisen gleich die Schenken besuchen.

[1]  The down the world's up - springing of the true Beloved's cheek ,eclipsed is the moon by which ,
Is a joyous ring ; but path is none out from it .

[2]   The eye - brow the world ,the stage of acquisition of love of the Friend God is the corner stone of the prayer - arch of fortune
There ,thy face rub thy need the degrees of the first and the last world and the ladders of loftiest stages ask from Him .

[3]   O thou that art the draught - drinker the holy traveller of the assembly of Jamshid the murshid ,perfect and excellent thy heart keep pure
For a mirror this is the cup world - viewing the heart of the murshid Alas for it .

[4]   The hypocritical conduct of the men of the monastery abids and the austere ones ,who for deceiving men ,made wailing me ,a wine - worshipper ,made .
Behold this smoke of their hypocritical wailing and sighing black with wine - worshipping became my book by which

[5]   To the Shaitan of grief ,whatever is possible say and do
With the wine - sellers to whom no access is his I have taken shelter from him .

[6]   Saki the luminous lamp of wine on the sun's path keep
Say : the torch of the morning enkindle from it .

[7]   O murshid on the day - record of our deeds ,a little water of thy kindness scatter
Perchance ,the letters of sin ,one can efface with it .

[8]   Hafiz ,who ,the arrangement of the assembly of the lovers straight made ,
The space of this banquet - place be not void of him

[9]   In this fancy ,that a city - beggar hath ,
May it be that ,one day ,the king may make recollection of him .

[1]  Der Freundes Wangen Flaum, Der selbst den Mond ergriffen, Ist zwar ein schöner Ring, Doch hat er keinen Ausweg.

[2]  Der Freundinn Augenbrau'n Sind stets des Glückes Wohnort, Dort reibe deine Stirn', Dort klage deine Nöthen.

[3]  Du Hefentrinker Dschems, O halte rein den Busen, Ein Spiegel ist er, ach! Vor dem sich nichts verstecket.

[4]  Der Zellenmänner Thun Macht mich zum Weinverehrer, Sieh' diesen Rauch nur an, Der meine Schriften schwärzet.

[5]  Sag' zu dem Teufel gram: Thu', was dir nur beliebet, Ich habe mich vor dir Zu Trunknen schon geflüchtet.

[6]  O Schenke, halt' das Glas Als Leuchte zu der Sonne, Und sag': hier zünde an Die Fackel deines Morgens.

[7]  O schütte Wasser aus Auf's Tagbuch unsers Thuns, Wegwaschest du vielleicht Damit der Sünden Zeiten.

[8]  Hafis hat angestellt Der Liebenden Versammlung, Daher sey dieser Platz Nie leer von seinem Daseyn!

[9]  Wird sich der Träumerei'n, Mit der sich Bettler schmeicheln, Wird sich derselben wohl Der Fürst einmal erinnern?

[1]  'Tis the fresh spring .In this strive that joyous of heart thou mayst be
For ,again ,blossometh many a rose when in the clay of the grave thou shall be .

[2]   I say not now ,with whom ,sit what drink
For thou knowest ,if wise and learned thou be .

[3]   Within the veil ,thee ,the harp keepeth giving counsel .But ,
Thee ,counsel profiteth at that time when worthy thou mayst be .

[4]   In the sward ,every leaf is a book of a different state
Woe is it if ,careless of the state of all ,thou be .

[5]   In excess ,the world's anguish taketh life's cash ,
If ,night and day ,in this difficult tale ,of journeying to the Friend thou be .

[6]   Though ,from us to the Friend ,is a Path the path of ma'rifat full of fear ,
Easy is the going ,if acquainted with the stage the Shaikh thou be .

[7]   O Hafiz if ,from lofty fortune ,aid be thine ,
The prey of that true Beloved ,impressed with excellences ,thou shalt be .

[1]  Frühlings ist's! höre mich, sey' nun fröhlich; Rosen blüh'n noch einst, wenn du Rasen bist.

[2]  Soll ich dir sagen, mit wem zu trinken, Da du selber es weißt und weise bist?

[3]  Höre den Rath, den die Leier tönet, Doch er nützet nur, wenn du fähig bist!

[4]  Jegliches Blatt ist ein Buch der Weisheit, Schade, daß du so träg' und sorglos bist!

[5]  Hin ist die Summe des Lebens, Wenn du Tage und Nächte durch verlegen bist.

[6]  Voll von Gefahr ist der Weg zum Freunde, Leicht ist's, wenn du der Posten kundig bist!

[7]  Wenn dich das Glas, o Hafis! begünstigt, Kanns seyn, daß du der Raub des Falken 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