[1]  In constancy of love for Thee ,renowned of the lovely ones I am like the candle
Night - sitter in the street of head life - players and of profligates ,I am like the candle .

[2]   Day and night ,to my eye ,grief - worshipping ,sleep cometh not
Since ,in sickness of separation from Thee ,weeping ,I am like the candle .

[3]   With the shears of grief for Thee ,severed became the thread of my patience
So ,in fire's separation from Thee ,laughing consuming I am like the candle .

[4]   If hot moving impetuous had not been the steed of my rose - hued bloody tear ,
In the world ,when would my hidden mystery love for Thee have become luminous like the candle .

[5]   In the midst of water and of fire ,even so ardent of desire for Thee is
This my heart ,poor ,feeble ,tear - raining guttering like the candle .

[6]   In separation's night ,me a letter of union ,send
If not ,in grief for Thee ,a great world I will cause to consume - like the candle .

[7]   Night is my day without Thy beauty world - adorning
With the perfection of love for Thee ,in the very essence of loss ,consuming I am ,like the candle .

[8]   From the power of grief for Thee ,soft like wax became the mountain of my patience ,
Since ,in the water and the fire of love for Thee ,melting I am like the candle .

[9]   Like the morning ,without a sight of Thee ,is left only a breath of life
O heart - ravisher Thy face ,display so that ,on Thee ,my life I may scatter in love's consuming like the candle -

[10]   O neck - extender in grandeur head - exalting make me ,one night ,by union with Thee
That ,by the sight of Thee ,luminous may become my hall like the candle

[11]   Wonderful in his head ,Hafiz caught love's fire for Thee
With the water tear of the eye ,how may 1 quench the heart's fire like the candle .

[1]  Durch Treue bin ich berühmt bei Schönen wie die Kerze,Ich sitze bei der Nacht mit Trunknen, wie die Kerze.

[2]  Bei Nacht und Tage kommt kein Schlaf in meine Augen,Ich weine, und bin krank durch Trennung, wie die Kerze.

[3]  Den Faden der Geduld zerschnitt die Scheer des Grames,Ich lach' in der Gluth der Liebe, gleich der Kerze.

[4]  Wenn blut'ge Thränen nicht dem Auge heiß entströmten,So wär' der Welt nicht kund mein Innres wie die Kerze.

[5]  Mein weinend Herz, o schau' es zwischen Gluth und Wasser,Beständig klaget es, es jammert wie die Kerze.

[6]  Den Schmetterling der Lust send' in die Nacht der Trennung,Sonst werde ich die Welt verbrennen wie die Kerze.

[7]  Mein Tag ist finster ohne deine Weltenschönheit,Doch unvollkommen ist die Liebe wie die Kerze.

[8]  Der Felsen der Geduld zerschmilzt wie Wachs vor Schmerzen,Seit deine Liebe mich zerschmelzet wie die Kerze.

[11]  Ergriffen hat Hafisen deiner Liebe Flamme,Wann löschet Wasser diesen Brand aus wie die Kerze.

[1]  Where ,the glad tidings of union with Thee ,so that ,from desire of life ,I may rise
The holy bird of paradise am I from the world's snare ,I rise .

[2]   By Thy love I swear that ,if me ,Thy slave ,Thou call ,
Out from desire of lordship of existence and dwelling both worlds I rise .

[3]   O Lord from the cloud of guidance ,the rain of mercy cause to arrive
Before that ,from the midst ,like a handful of dust ,I rise .

[4]   O holy traveller at the head of my tomb ,without wine and the minstrel ,sit not
So that by thy perfume ,dancing ,I may rise .

[6]   Though I am old ,one night me ,close in Thy embrace take ,
So that ,in the morning ,from Thy embrace ,young I may rise .

[7]   O Idol ,sweet of motion arise and Thy lofty ,cypress - like stature display
That ,like Hafiz ,from desire of life and of the world I may rise .

[1]  Sag' an die Kunde des Genußes, Vom Sitz der Seele steh' ich auf, Ich bin des Paradieses Vogel, Vom Netz der Erde flieg' ich auf.

[2]  Wenn du mich deinen Diener nennest, Thu' ich Verzicht auf Zeit und Ort, Und schwinge mich blos dir zu Liebe Hoch über alle Herrschaft auf.

[3]  O Herr! send' aus der Leitung Wolke Doch einen Regen mir herab. Eh' daß ich als ein leichtes Stäubchen Aus dieser Mitte fliege auf.

[4]  Sitz' anders nicht an meinem Grabe, Als mit dem Becher, mit Gesang, Ich stehe dann vor deinem Dufte Mit Springen und mit Tanzen auf.

[5]  Steh' auf! und zeige deine Höhe, O du, mein Abgott! süßen Gangs. Ich stehe, wie Hafis, von allem, Von Geist und Gütern gerne auf.

[6]  Ich bin zwar alt, allein im Dunkeln, Magst du mich wohl umarmen fest, Ich stehe dann zur Geisterstunde An deiner Brust als Jüngling auf.

[1]  O thou that ,with the long trailing tress ,hast come
Thine be leisure for ,with love pitying the distraught ,thou hast come .

[2]   One moment ,disdain display not thy custom so that by thee ,they may be prosperous alter
For ,for inquiring after the state of the Lords of need thou hast come .

[3]   Before thy cypress stature ,I boast whether thou be in peace .or in war ;
Because ,in every state ,as the uplifter the taker away of disdain thou hast come .

[4]   O beloved out of that lip of ruby ,thou hast evoked water and fire
Far be the evil eye for the sweet magic - player strangely mixing water and fire thou hast come .

[5]   Afarin on thy tender heart for ,for the sake of good ,
To him slain by thy glance ,in prayer ,thou hast come .

[6]   With thee ,what weigheth my austerity For the plundering - of my heart ,
Intoxicated and perturbed ,to the khilvat - place of mystery ,thou hast come .

[7]   Hafiz said Again ,wine - stained is thy khirka
Perchance ,back from this religious order of this band zahids and sufis thou hast come .

[1]  Du der mit dem langen Haar' Wie mit eigenen Ketten gekommen, Dein sey die Gelegenheit, Weil du Narren zu schmeicheln gekommen.

[2]  Eine Stunde zeig' dich mild Und verändre deine Gewohnheit, Weil nur jene, welche fleh'n, Du zu fragen und forschen gekommen.

[3]  Sey's im Frieden, sey's im Krieg, Immer bin ich geweiht dir zum Opfer, Denn in jedem Zustand bist Du mit lieblichem Kosen gekommen.

[4]  Gluth und Wasser sind vermischt In den schwellenden Lippenrubinen, Böse Augen seyen fern! Als ein Gaukler bist du gekommen.

[5]  Lob sey deinem weichen Herz, Um ein löbliches Werk zu verrichten, Betest du für alle Todten, Welche du mit den Wimpern gemordet.

[6]  Sag', was meiner Tugend nützt, Daß du Schätze des Herzens zu plündern, Ganz betrunken und verwirrt In mein stilles Gemach bist gekommen.

[7]  Sieh Hafis! sprach sie zu mir, Deine Kutte mit Mackeln beflecket, Bist du wohl von dieser Zunft Endlich einmahl zurückgekommen.

[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

[77]   Hafiz by the independence of profligates ,I conjure thee drink wine ,
So that ,thou mayst hear the song of the Singer ,God the Independent One .

[78]   Into the sea of self and self - praise ,I am fallen .Bring
Wine ,so that freedom from self and self - praise me ,it may give .

[79]   Hafiz in the rivulet of the eye ,the plant of thy stature
Drank blood ,and established fruit .It thou wishest to up - pluck .