[1]  O breeze murshid thy passing by the dwelling of the true Beloved ,keep not back
For the wretched lover Hafiz news of Him the true Beloved keep not back .

[2]   O rose in thanks that ,to thy heart's desire ,thou blossomedest ,
From the bird of the morning the bulbul the breeze of union keep not back .

[3]   When thou wast the new moon in the beginning of youthful beauty I was thy companion
Now ,that in beauty thou art the full moon ,from the state of me foolish the glance of mercy keep not back ,

[4]   Mean small and contracted is the world and all that in it is
O true Beloved from the people of divine knowledge ,this contracted portion keep not back .

[5]   Now ,that the fountain of sugar the water of life is Thy sweet ruby lip
Utter speech and from the parrot Hafiz sugar the true Beloved keep not back .

[6]   To the far horizon ,taketh the poet thy deeds noble and generous
From him ,allowance and provision for the journey keep not back .

[7]   O praised One since thou desirest good mention of thy self this the matter :
In respect of the price of speech good mention silver and gold keep not back .

[8]   Hafiz grief's dust departeth better cometh thy state
From this thoroughfare ,the water of thy eye tears keep not back .

[1]  Beim Verliebten, o Ostwind, gehe vorbei,Kunde bringe dem Liebenden,Verweigre mir's nicht!

[2]  Lieblich blühst du, o Rose, dankbar dafür,Einen Duft für die NachtigallVerweigre mir nicht.

[3]  Dein Verehrer war ich, o wachsender Mond,Einen Blick, nun du älter bist,Verweigre mir nicht.

[4]  Erdengüter sind leicht, und niederen WerthsDiese Kleinigkeit, WürdigenVerweigre sie nicht.

[5]  Wie der Kandel sind deine Lippen mir süß,Zucker spende dem PapageyVerweigre mir's nicht!

[6]  Deine Tugenden führt zum Kafe das Lied,Reisezehrung dem Liedermund,Verweigere du nicht.

[7]  Wer verherrlicht seyn will, höre dies Wort:Gold und Silber ist Liederpreis,Verweigert es nicht.

[8]  Gram und Schmerzen vergeh'n, und beßer wird's einst,Deine Thränen auf jenem Pfad,Verweig're sie nicht.

[1]  Who am I that ,over that fragrant noble mind ,I should pass :
Thou doest me favours .O dust of Thy door the crown of my head ,be

[2]   O heart - ravish er slave - cherishing ,taught Thee who Say ,
For to Thy watchers ,this idea never will I impute .

[3]   O holy bird the perfect murshid thy blessing the guide of my path ,make
For ,to our goal ,long is the Path new to journeying ,am I .

[4]   morning breeze my service cause to reach the murshid
Saying : Me ,at the time of the prayer of morn ,forget not .

[5]   Happy that day ,when ,from this stage this world my chattels of existence I bind up
And ,from the head of Thy street ,news of me ,the companions ask saying Where went he

[6]   O Hafiz it is fit if ,in thy search for the jewel of union ,
With tears ,my eye I make an ocean and ,in it ,dive .

[7]   Lofty ,is the rank of verse and world - captivating .Speak
So that ,full of pearls ,thy mouth the ocean - king may make .

[1]  Ha! wer bin ich, daß dieses Gemüth sich meiner erinnert, Du bist zu gut, mich krönt dein Staub.

[2]  Sprich, o Mädchen, wer hat dich gelehret, dem Sklaven zu schmeicheln? Den Neidern sag' ich hievon Nichts.

[3]  Vogel aus Eden! o gieb mir deinen Muth zum Geleite, Der Weg ist lang, ich bin noch neu.

[4]  Morgenwind, o bringe doch meine Grüße zu ihr hin, Vergiß den Morgensegen nicht.

[5]  Selig der Tag, an dem ich einstens wandre von hinnen, Wo man um dich mich einstens fragt. Zeige mir doch den Weg zu deinem innren Gemache, Ich trink' und kümm're mich um Nichts.

[6]  Um die Perle der Wonne zu fischen, Hafis, ist's erlaubet, Daß du das Aug' zum Meere machst.

[7]  Siehe das Wort! es erobert die Welt, o dem Schahe von Ormus Sag': mit Perlen den Mund mir gefüllt.

[1]  The skirt - trailer damsel kept moving in cloth ,gold - embroidered ,
In envy of her ,a hundred moon - of - face ,the collar of hempen cloth rent

[2]   From the heat of the fire of wine ,round about her cheek ,sweat ,
Like drops of night - dew on the rose - leaf dropped .

[3]   A pronunciation ,eloquent and sweet a stature ,tall and beautiful
A face ,gracious and heart - alluring ; the eye in a bow sweetly drawn .

[4]   Her soul refreshing ruby lip of the water of grace born
The boxtree stature sweetly moving ,in daintiness cherished .

[5]   That heart - alluring ruby lip of hers ,behold and that laughter full of ripple
That sweet moving of hers ,behold and that gait reposed .

[6]   Forth from our snare ,that mistress ,dark of eye ,hath gone
Friends what remedy may I make with this heart affrighted

[7]   Take care so far as thou canst ,injure not people of vision
No fidelity ,hath the world .O light of both eyes

[8]   On account of that heart - fascinating eye ,reproach how long shall I endure
One day ,glance ,O friend well chosen

[9]   If ,on account of Hafiz thy noble heart be grieved ,
Come back .For ,repentance ,we have made of that uttered and heard .

[10]   On account of the Khwaja's service ,many the thanks that I shall utter ,
If to my hand fall that fruit matured .

[11]   Every evil that ,in respect of us ,the enemy uttered thou heardest
O Lord the adversary's tongue be severed

[1]  Er schleppte nach die Schleppe Vom goldgestickten Hemd, Und hundert Mondgesichter Zerrissen ihr Gewand.

[2]  Der Schweiß trof auf die Wangen Von heißer Gluth des Weins, Wie auf die Rosenblätter Ein Tropfe frischen Thaus.

[3]  Voll süßer schöner Worte, Hochstämmig und gewandt, Vom lieblichen Gesichte Und anmuthsvollem Blick.

[4]  Es war aus Lebenswasser Geformt des Munds Rubin, Sein Buchs war aufgewachsen, Genährt mit Schmeichelei'n.

[5]  O schaue die Rubinen Und dieses Lächelns Reiz, Den Gang voll Huld und Anmuth, Den wohlgemeßnen Schritt.

[6]  Der Hirsch mit schwarzen Augen Entkam aus unsrem Netz, Was ist zu thun, o Freunde, Für ein zerschlagnes Herz!

[7]  Hüt' dich, bist du's im Stande, Rühr' Liebende nicht an, Die Welt hat keine Treue, O du mein Augenlicht!

[8]  Wie lang schilt mich dein Auge, Das alle trüget, aus? Wann wirst du mir dann schmeicheln, Mein auserwählter Freund?

[9]  Hat deine edle Seele Beleidiget Hafis, So komm', denn That und Worte Will herzlich ich bereun.

[10]  Ich will den Herren loben Aus schuld'ger Dankbarkeit, Wenn diese Frucht gereifet In meine Hände fällt.

[1]  By His the true Beloved's soul I swear that if power of sacrificing my life had been ,
The humble offering of His slave ,it would have been .

[3]   Confessor ,in service to His stature ,the tongueless cypress would have been ,
If ,to it ,like the noble ten - tongued lily ,tongue had been .

[4]   Him ,even in sleep ,I see not .What room for speaking of union
When this union might not be ,Him we saw not .Would to God that the beholding of Him in sleep had been .

[5]   If foot - bound to His tress ,my heart had not been ,
In this dark dust - heap this world rest mine ,how would have been

[6]   In face ,like the resplendent sun of the sky ,peerless of climes is He
In heart ,alas ,that only a little kind He should have been .

[7]   Would to God by my door ,like a flash of light ,he had entered ,
So that ,on my two eyes his order current had been

[8]   Forth from the screen ,when would have fallen Hafiz's wail of lustrous verse
If not fellow - companion of the birds ,morning - singing ,he had been

[1]  Zu entreißen wäre möglich, Wenn er nicht in trautem Umgang Mit des Morgens Sänger wäre.

[2]  Dann nur würde man erkennen Ganz den Werth des Staub's der Füße, Wenn derselbe für das ew'ge Leben hingegeben wäre.

[3]  Längstens hätte die Cypresse Ihren hohen Wuchs verkündigt; Wenn sie, wie der Lilie Zunge, Im Besitz von Sprachen wäre.

[4]  Wenn ich sie im Traume sehe, Kann ich sie doch nicht genießen, Da mir dieses nicht geworden, Wollt' ich, daß es jenes wäre.

[5]  Wenn mein Herz an ihre Locken Fest nicht angebunden wäre, Wüßt' ich nicht, wie ich beständig Hier auf dieser Staubbahn wäre.

[6]  Bei den Wangen! deren Schimmer Alle Himmel überstrahlet, Ach! daß doch mein Herz ein Stäubchen Dieser Weltensonne wäre!

[8]  Dem Hafis den Klageschleier

[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 .