[1]  The friend I am of the sweet face ; and of the heart - alluring hair :
Distraught with the intoxicated eye ,I am and with pure unalloyed wine .

[2]   Thou askedest Of the mystery of the covenant of eternity without beginning ,say one word ,
I reply That moment when two cups of wine ,I drink ,I will tell thee .

[3]   Adam of paradise ,I am but in this journey through this world
Now ,captive to the love of youthful ones ,I am .

[4]   In being a lover of God is no escape from consuming and yet being content
Like the candle ,standing I am me of the fire of love affright not .

[5]   The mine of the ruby lip and the quarry of beauty is Shiraz
On that account ,harassed am I ,the poor jeweller .

[6]   From the many intoxicated eyes that in this city of Shiraz I have beheld ,
O God I swear that ,now ,no wine ,I drink and yet merry of head I am .

[7]   From six directions ,'tis a city full of the glance of lovely ones
Not a thing is mine if not of all six ,purchaser I be .

[8]   If fortune aid so that ,to the Friend ,my chattels ,I draw such my dignity will be that
The fragrant dust from my couch ,even the beperfumed tress of the Hur will wipe .

[9]   Hafiz the bride of my nature desireth splendour
No mirror have I ,on that account being mirrorless sigh ,I heave .

[10]   From the heat of fruitless thought ,Hafiz consumed
The Saki is where that ,on my fire ,water he may dash

[1]  Ich bin ein Freund von schönen Wangen, Von seinem Haar, Ich bin verliebt in trunkne Augen, In reinen Wein.

[2]  Du sprachst: wir kennen uns von ewig, Nun sag' ein Wort, Ich sprach: Ich sag' es gern, doch trinken Wir eh ein Glas.

[3]  Ich bin ein Mann des Paradieses, Doch auf der Welt Bin ich durch Liebe schöner Knaben Gar tief verstrickt.

[4]  Es kümmert sich um Gluth und Flammen Die Liebe nicht. Ich bin gerade wie die Kerze, Fürcht' nicht die Gluth.

[5]  Schiras ist rother Lippen Bergwerk, Der Schönheit Quell, Ich Münzeloser bin deßwegen So sehr verwirrt.

[6]  Ich hab' so viele trunkne Augen Allhier gesehn, Daß ich nun keinen Wein mehr trinke, Und trunken bin.

[7]  Die Stadt ist von den Schmeicheleien Der Schönen voll. Ich habe Nichts, sonst kauft' ich gerne Dieselben aus.

[8]  Wenn noch einmal mein gutes Schicksal Zum Freunde führt, So kehr' ich mit Hurienlocken Den Teppich ab.

[9]  Hafis! es lüstet mich zu sehen Den Reiz der Braut, Allein ich habe keinen Spiegel, Drob seufze ich. Hafis ist von der Gluth der Dummen Ganz angebrannt, Wo ist der Schenke, daß er gieße Ins Feuer Fluth.

[1]  O morning cypress without thee ,with the rose and the rose - bud ,what may I do
The tress of the hyacinth ,how may I draw ; with the cheek of the lily what may I do

[2]   From the reproach of the ill - wisher ,alas I beheld not Thy face
When not mine is the gleaming mirror ,with dull iron what may I do

[3]   O admonisher go ; and at the dreg - drinkers ,carp not :
This ,the work - orderer of Fate doeth what may I do

[4]   When ,like this ,from the hidden ambush ,leapeth the lightning of jealousy ,
Do thou order for I of consumed harvest ,what may I do

[5]   When the King of the Turans Afrasiyab approved and cast me into the pit ,
If the grace of Tahamtan Rustam be not hand - seizer to help what may I do

[6]   If with a lamp on the path of travellers Tur's fire the perfect murshid make not a little assistance ,
For the remedy of the dark night of the Wadl - i - Aiman what may I do

[7]   Hafiz highest paradise is the house of my heritage
In this desolate stage this world my dwelling ,why do I make

[1]  Was soll ich ohne dich o Cypreße, Mit Ros' und Rosenbeeten machen? Was soll ich ohne Lockennarzißen, Was ohne Wangenlilien machen.

[2]  O Weh es hat das Spotten der Feinde, Dein Angesicht dem Blick entzogen, Das meinige ist nicht wie ein Spiegel Von Eisen, sag' was soll ich machen.

[3]  O heb' dich Rather, heb' dich von hinnen, Und schmähl' die Trinker nicht umsonst aus. So hat's der Herr des Schicksals befohlen. Was kann und soll ich Anderes machen!

[4]  Wenn du die Eifersucht im Verborgenen Gleich einem Blitze strahlend zeigest, An dir ist es alsdann zu befehlen, Was soll ich Herzverbrannter machen!

[5]  Wenn es dem Schah der Türken beliebet, Mich in den Brunnen tief zu werfen, Und wenn Rostem des Ehernen Huld nicht Heraus mir hilft, was soll ich machen!

[6]  Wird von des Berges Sinai's Feuer Nicht Licht für meinen Docht gespendet, Was soll ich in den finsteren Nächten Des Thals der Ruh' im Stillen machen.

[7]  Hafis, es ist das ewige Leben, Ein altererbtes Gut vom Vater, Was willst du diese wüsten Ruinen, Noch länger dir zur Wohnung machen!

[1]  Now ,the good counsel of the time I see in that ,
That ,to the wine - house ,my chattels I betake and happy sit .

[2]   The cup of wine ,I take and ,from the hypocrite ,far I go
That is ,of the world's creation ,only pureness of heart ,I choose .

[3]   Save the goglet and the book the Kuran no companion nor friend may be mine
So that the traitor - watchers of the world ,seldom ,I may see .

[4]   Above the people ,my head in freedom ,like the lofty cypress ,I uplift ,
If it be possible that ,away from the world ,my skirt ,I may pluck .

[5]   Since ,in the stained khirka ,rectitude I boasted
Ashamed of the Saki's face and of the coloured wine ,am I .

[6]   My straitened chest and its load of grief .Alas
Not the man porter for this heavy load ,is my grieved heart .

[7]   If I be the tavern .profligate or if the city - guardian ,
These ,that Thou seest ,I am and than these ,less I am .

[8]   The slave of the Asaf of the age am I my heart afflicted ,keep not
For ,if I boast of the sphere ,revenge it seeketh .

[9]   On my heart is the dust of tyranny .O God approve not
That dulled should be my love - filled mirror the heart

[10]   In fancy for the tip of Thy musky tress ,my heart and soul consumed
If for Thee credence be necessary ,behold my musky fragrant breath

[1]  Was mir am dienlichsten scheint bei diesen gefährlichen Zeiten, Ist in das Wirthshaus zu ziehn, lustiger Dinge zu seyn.

[2]  Mit dem Glas in der Hand, bin ich dort ferne von Heuchlern, Rein bewahr' ich mein Herz in dem Getümmel der Welt,

[3]  Keinen Freund verlang' ich mir dort, als das Buch und die Flasche, Daß ich vergeße der List, daß ich vergeße des Trugs.

[4]  Stolz wie Cypreßen erheb' ich mein Haupt hoch über die Menschen, Wenn mein Vorsatz gelingt mich zu entziehen der Welt.

[5]  Selbst in bemackeltem Kleid hab' ich noch mit Gutem geprahlet, Aber ich stehe dafür Schenken und Trunknen zum Spott.

[6]  Ach! der engen Brust, und ach! der Bürde der Leiden Solche Bürden des Grams trägt nicht das siechende Herz.

[7]  Sey' ich ein Trunkner vom Platz, und sey von der Stadt ich der Hüter, Sieh' ich bin wie ich bin, manchesmal schlechter vielleicht.

[8]  Gräme dich nicht mein Herz, ich bin der Sklav des Wesires, Klagte den Himmel ich an, ständ' er als Rächer mir bei.

[9]  Staub der Leiden verhüllt mein Herz, Gott soll es bewahren! Niemals seyen getrübt spiegelnde Herzen so rein.

[1]  That one the true Beloved ,or the murshid who ,like the trodden dust of the path ,made me trampled of tyranny ,
The dust of the path of His foot I kiss ; and for the trouble of His approach ,pardon beg .

[2]   Not that one am I ,who bewail of violence from Thee .God forbid
The faithful servant ; and slave ,well - wishing ,I am .

[3]   In the curl of Thy long tress ,my long hope ,have I bound
Be it not that my hand of search ,short it the tress should make cut

[4]   An atom of dust ,I am and ,in Thy street ,pleasant ,is my time
Friend I fear that suddenly ,me ,a great wind of calamity may take .

[5]   In the morning ,the Pir of the wine - house the perfect murshid me ,the cup world - viewing the heart pure of impurity of beholding other than God gave
And in that world - viewing cup like a mirror ,me ,informed of Thy beauty ,made .

[6]   The Sufi of the lofty cloister of the holy world am I .But ,
Now ,the lowly cloister of the Magians is the charge of mine .

[7]   With me ,the road .sitter ,arise and to the wine - house of love come
So that thou mayst see how in that circle of zikr va fikr master of rank ,am I .

[8]   Intoxicated ,Thou passedest and of Hafiz ,no thought was Thine
Alas if the skirt of Thy beauty ,my morning sigh should catch consume

[9]   Happy to me it came when ,in the morning ,the Khusrau of the east the resplendent sun spake
Notwithstanding all my sovereignty ,the slave of the Turan King am I .

[1]  Ha! er zertrat mich, er hat mich zum Staube des Weges erniedrigt. Aber ich küsse den Staub, fleh' um Vergebung den Fuß.

[2]  Ueber dich beklag' ich mich nicht, bewahre der Himmel! Denn ich bin dein Sklav, wünsche dir Segen als Knecht.

[3]  Meine Hoffnung ist an die langen Haare geheftet, O verkürze du mir nimmer die Hände der Lust!

[4]  Ich bin ein Stäubchen des Staubs, bei dir ist's mir so behaglich, Doch ich fürchte, mein Freund, daß mich der Wind nicht entführt.

[5]  Morgens hat mir der Wirth das Glas der Welten gegeben, Und von deinem Reiz mir dazu Kunde gebracht.

[6]  Freilich gehör' ich sonst zum Kloster der höheren Welten, Aber mein Unterpfand ist jetzt in dem Schenkengelag'.

[7]  Auf! mit mir, der am Wege ich sitze, wir gehen zur Schenke, Daß du Zeuge seyst, was mir für Ehre gebührt.

[8]  Trunken giengst du vorbei, und dachtest nicht deines Hafisens. Wehe! wenn mein Ach! etwa ergriffe dein Kleid.

[9]  Angenehm war's, als am Morgen der Größte der Fürsten selbst sagte: Samt der Herrschaft bin ich Turanschahs Diener und Knecht.

[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 .