[1]  O breeze with softness speak to the beautiful fawn the murshid
Saying Thou hast given to us desire for the mountain and the desert the hardship and pain of separation

[2]   The sugar - seller the murshid ,seller of the sugar of Divine knowledge whose life be long why
Maketh he no inquiry of the welfare of the parrot Hafiz ,the disciple sugar of divine knowledge devouring

[3]   O rose murshid ,beautiful as the rose perhaps the pride of beauty hath not given thee permission .
That thou makest no inquiry as to the state full of grief ,void of hypocrisy of the distraught nightingale Hafiz

[4]   By beauty of disposition ,people of vision one can captivate
Not by snare and net ,take they the wise bird .

[5]   I know not why the colour of constancy ,they have not
Those straight of stature ,dark of eye ,moon of face the prophets in the garden of the shar'

[6]   O murshid when thou sittest with the beloved Muhammad and drinkest wine the acquisition of divine bounty
Bring to mind the beloved ones ,wind - measuring astoniedand bewildered

[7]   Of defect in thy beauty ,one cannot speak save to this degree
That the way of love and of constancy belongeth not to the lovely face .

[8]   On the sky ,what if ,of Hafiz's utterances
Zuhra's singing should bring to dancing the Masiha Christ

[1]  Sage Morgenwind mit SchmeichelnJener lieblichen Gaselle,Auf die Berge, in die WüstenHat die Liebe mich getrieben.

[2]  Warum frägt der Zuckerhändler(Herr erhalte ihm das Leben)Warum frägt er nicht ums WohlseynSeines Zucker Papageyes?

[3]  Wisse Rose dir geziemt esNicht so stolz zu seyn, auf SchönheitDaß aus Stolz du nach der irrenNachtigall nicht einmal fragest.

[4]  Nur mit guter Art und WeiseWirst du den Geliebten fangen,Denn es gehen kluge VögelNicht ins Netz und in die Schlinge.

[5]  Wer belehrt mich, warum dieseDunkeln Augen, hohe FormenDiese vollen MondsgesichterMir so gar nicht hold seyn wollen!

[6]  Wenn du bey dem Liebchen sitzestWein an seiner Seite trinkest,O erinnre dich der Freunde,Die umher gleich Winden irren.

[7]  Deiner Schönheit fänd' ich wahrlichGar nichts anders auszusetzen,Als daß insgemein die SchönenNichts von Treu' und Liebe wissen. Für den Umgang mit den Freunden,Für die Gunst des Glückes dankbar,Sey auch eingedenk der Fremden,Die durch Heid' und Wüsten streifen.

[8]  Was ists Wunder wenn im Himmel,Durch Hafisens Lied gewecket,Zu dem Lautenspiele Suhre'sDer Messias Reigen tanzet?

[1]  Who ,for the sight of the true Beloved ,opened my eye ,that one am I
O work - door ,slave cherisher what thanks to Thee ,shall I utter

[2]   To the indigent man of calamity ,say : From dust ,wash not thy face
For the dust of the street of indigency is the alchemy of thy desire .

[3]   O heart from the difficulties of the path ,turn not the rein
For ,of descent and of ascent ,reflecteth not the man of the Path .

[4]   If with the blood of the liver ,purification in love the lover of God make not ,
By the word of the mufti of love ,not true is his prayer .

[5]   In this illusory stage ,save the cup of love for God take naught
In this house the world save love ,a pastime play not .

[6]   Independent of love ,though Thy beauty is ,
Not that one am I who ,from this love - playing ,back will turn .

[7]   To Thee ,how may I utter what ,from the burning of my heart ,I behold
Of my tears ,ask the tale for not the informer am I .

[8]   The desire of beauty's glance is his If not ,is no need
Of the tress of Ayaz to the beauty of Mahmud's fortune .

[9]   The ghazal - singing of Nahid Venus ,the minstrel of the sky taketh not the lead .
In that place ,where forth his voice of song Hafiz bringeth .

[1]  Zwey Thränen, welche du, o Aug'!Geweinet hast,Versichern die LiebkosungenVon deinem Glück.

[2]  Ich bins, der's Auge aufgethanDen Freund zu seh'n,Wie dank' ich dir, o Gott,Vermitteler!

[3]  Wisch' nicht von deinem AngesichtDer Bitte Staub,Denn er ist für den WünschendenDer Weisen Stein.

[4]  O Herz! Lenk' nicht ob schlechtem WegDen Zügel ab,Es denken Reisende nicht aufBerg auf, Berg ab.

[5]  Wenn sich der Liebende mit BlutNicht reiniget,Gilt sein Gebet vor dem MuftiDer Liebe wohl? Was nützet mir der SchwätzermundDes Frühlingswind'sWenn die Cypreße selber nichtGeheimniß birgt.

[6]  In diesem Fabelort ergreiff'Nichts als das Glas,In diesem Spielerhause spiel'Nun Minnespiel.

[7]  Mit einem halben Kuß erkauf'Ein Herzgebet,Daß du an Seel und Leibe freyVon Banden seyst.

[1]  Last night ,I said Out from my head ,the passion for His face I will put .
He the true Beloved said The chain where ,that the arrangement of binding this distraught one ,I may make

[2]   His stature ,I called the straight ,free cypress .In anger ,his head from me ,He drew back
O friends with the truth ,my idol grieveth .What shall I do

[3]   O heart - ravisher an un - weighed subtlety ,I uttered excuse me
Graciousness show that my thought weighed in verse I may make .

[4]   For that nature ,tender ,sinless ,I endure yellow shame - facedness ,
O Sakl a cup give ,that my face rose of hue I may make .

[5]   O breeze of Laila's dwelling for God's sake ,how long
The fourth inhabited part of the world shall I over - turn ; and the palace - ruins the waste - places the river Jaihun shall I make

[6]   I ,who took the path to the treasure of mysteries of boundless beauty of the Friend ,
After this ,a hundred beggars like myself ,rich as KarQn with divine knowledge I make .

[7]   O moon ,Lady of felicity thy slave Hafiz ,remember ,
So that ,for the fortune of that beauty daily increasing ,prayer ,1 may make .

[1]  Gestern wollt' ich Begier der Wangen Aus dem Kopfe verbannen, Wo sind Bande, so sprach sie, wo nun Diesen Narren zu binden.

[2]  Einer Ceder verglich ich ihren Wuchs, sie wandte das Haupt ab, Wenn sie über die Wahrheit zürnet, Was soll, Freunde, ich machen?

[3]  Meine Schöne verzeihe! meinem Lobe mangelt Verhältniß. Durch Liebkosungen schenkst du meinem Ganzen Wesen Verhältniß.

[4]  Ihretwegen verkehrt sich meiner Wangen Farbe in's Gelbe, Gieb das Glas her, o Schenke, daß ich Roth, wie Rosen, mich färbe.

[5]  Morgenlüftchen von Leila's Wohnung, Ich beschwöre bei Gott dich, Sag! wie lange noch soll ich Wüsten Mit den Thränen begießen?

[6]  Bin ich endlich zum unermeßnen Schatz der Freundin gelanget, Will ich Bettler die arm wie ich sind In Karunne verwandeln.

[7]  Herr des Sternenvereins am Himmel, Mond, gedenke Hafisens! Daß ich meine Gebete weihe Deiner glänzenden Schönheit.

[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]  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