[1]  The breeze of love's perfume ,I perceived and ,expectant of the flashing of the lightning of union ,became
O cool breeze of the north come for ,for the perfume of thy body ,I die

[2]   O song - uttering driver of the camels of the Beloved stand ,and alight
For ,in desire of the Beloved's beauty ,no patience is mine .

[3]   O heart the complaint of the night of separation ,let go
In thanks that the day of union hath up - cast the screen of the night of separation

[4]   O Friend come .For the seven - fold - rose tear shedding screen of the eye ,
On the writing of the workshop of Thy tender fancy ,I have drawn .

[5]   When the Beloved is in desire of peace ; and excuse asketh ,
In every state ,one can pass by and pardon the violence of the watcher .

[6]   In my straitened heart ,is naught save the fancy of Thy small mouth
Like me ,in pursuit of vain fancy ,be none

[7]   Slain by love for Thee ,became the stranger ,Hafiz ,but ,
By our dust ,pass for lawful to Thee is our blood .

[8]   Trodden by the foot of grief ,perturbed ,is my heart
Even as acquainted with its state is none .

[1]  Ich hab' den Schleier des Auges

[2]  Ich roch der Liebe Gerüche,Ich roch den Blitz des Genußes.Komm Morgenwind, denn ich möchteVor deinem Dufte vergehen.

[3]  Kameltreiber, der singendKamele locket, o warte!Denn voll von Sehnsucht nach SchönheitKann ich unmöglich dir folgen.

[4]  Mein Herz mach' einmal ein EndeDer Klagen über die Trennung,Es hat der Tag des GenußesZurückgeworfen den Schleier

[5]  Den siebenfachen verwendet,Der Fantasien Gemächer,Mit selben schön zu bekleiden.

[6]  Sobald das Liebchen sich freundlichErzeigt und Frieden begehret,Ist's leicht sich über die UnbildDes Nebenbuhlers zu trösten.

[7]  Es liegt im Winkel des HerzensNach deinem Munde die Sehnsucht;O laß' sich's Keiner gelüstenSolch einen Wunsch zu verfolgen!

[1]  With this beauteous writing that on the rose of thy cheek thou drawest ,
On the page leaf of the rose ,and of the rose - bed ,the line of effacement thou drawest .

[2]   My tear ,sitting in the fold of the hidden house ,*
From within the seven screens to the market of renown Thou drawest .

[3]   By the perfume of thy tress ,the sluggish mover like the soft morning breeze ,
Momently ,in bond and chain into swift action ,Thou drawest .

[4]   Momently ,in recollection of that lip ,wine of hue and of that intoxicated eye ,
Me ,from khilvat to the vintner's house ,Thou drawest .

[5]   O true Beloved Thou saidest Thy head bound to our saddle - strap is fit
'Tis easy here is my head if the trouble of this load ,Thou endurest .

[6]   With against Thy eye and eye - brow ,what deliberation of heart may I make
Alas this bow that ,against me miserable ,Thou drawest .

[7]   Come back so that ,with Thy cheek ,far I may put the evil - eye ,
O fresh rose ,that ,from this thorn Hafiz ,possessed of imperious lust Thy skirt Thou drawest .

[8]   Hafiz from the favour of time ,what more seekest thou
Wine thou tastest and through the hand the heart - possessor's tress thou drawest .

[1]  Mit Schönheits-Linien, die du Auf deinen Wangen ziehst, Ist's sicher, daß du einen Strich Durch Rosenbeete ziehst.

[2]  Betracht', daß meine Thränen, (die In dem Harem der Brust Geheimnißvoll versenket sind) Du auf den Markt hinziehst.

[3]  Ha, wie mit deiner Locken Duft Du jeden Augenblick, Dem Ostwind gleich ein jedes Herz In deine Bande ziehst!

[4]  Und wie du jeden Augenblick Durch dein berauschtes Aug', Und durch der trunknen Lippen Duft Mich in die Schenke ziehst.

[5]  Du sprichst, es ziemt sich, daß dein Haupt In meinen Banden sey, Sehr wohl! wenn du nur diese Last Mit Freuden nach dir ziehst.

[6]  Soll ich mich wider deine Brau'n Berathen mit dem Aug'? O weh! des Bogens, welchen du Straf auf mich Kranken ziehst.

[7]  Komm', daß von deinem Angesicht Ich wend' das böse Aug', O frische Rose! welche du Den Saum durch Dornen ziehst.

[8]  Hafis! wiewohl du dir verlangst Die Güter dieser Welt, Das Beste ist doch, daß du trinkst Und Freundeslocken ziehst.

[1]  Alas full ,full of pain is my heart ,a plaister
God through loneliness ,to giving up life my heart hath come ; a companion

[2]   From the swift moving sky ,hope of ease ,hath who
O Saki a cup bring ,so that I may rest a while .

[3]   To a wit ,I said Behold these circumstances .He laughed and said
A work ,difficult a state ,the father of wonders perturbed ,a world .

[4]   In the pit of patience ,for that candle of Chigil ,I consumed
Of our state ,the King of the Turkans Turans is careless .Where a Rustam

[5]   In the Path of love - play ,calamity is safety and ease
Wounded be that heart that with on account of pain desireth a plaister

[6]   No path ,into the street of profligates ,is for the man of desire and indulgence
A wayfarer is necessary ,a world - consumer not a raw one ,without a grief .

[7]   In this dusty world ,to hand cometh not a man
It is necessary to make another world ,and anew a man .

[8]   Arise .To the saucy ones of Samarkand ,let us give our heart
For ,from its breeze ,the fragrance of the river Mulian the Oxus cometh anon .

[9]   Hafiz before in comparison with love's independence what weigheth thy weeping
For ,in this deluge ,the seven all the seas of the world appear only a little night - dew .

[1]  Voll von Schmerzen ist die Brust, Gebet mir ein Pflaster! Einsam ist mein Herz entseelt, Herr! gieb mir Vertraute!

[2]  Wer hofft von dem schwarzen Loos Frieden oder Ruhe! Schenke, bringe mir ein Glas, Um doch auszuruhen.

[3]  Siehe, sprach ich, sieh' das Ding, Aber lachend sprach Er: Wunderbar ist dieses Ding, Alles ist Verwirrung.

[4]  In dem Brunnen der Geduld Brannt' ich für die Kerze, Sieh' der Turkomanne schläft, Bringet mir Rustemen.

[5]  Auf dem Weg der Liebe ist, Ruhe nur ein Unglück. Immer bleibe wund das Herz, Welches Pflaster fodert.

[6]  Allumstrickte führt kein Weg Zu dem Gau' der Trunknen, Ein verbrannter Armer ist Hier der beste Weiser.

[7]  Keinen Adam giebt es mehr Auf dem Erdenrunde, Andre Welten sind mir noth Und ein andrer Adam.

[8]  Stehe auf, daß ich mein Herz Jenem Türken gebe, Denn von seinem Hauche kömmt Mir der Duft des Oxus.

[9]  Wiegest du Hafisens Gram Gegen Wohlbehagen? Gegen diese Sündfluth sind Sieben Meer' ein Tropfen.

[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 .

[80]   O thou who ,in our slaughter ,mercy exercisest not
Profit and capital ,thou consumest manliness ,thou showest not .

[81]   Deadly poison ,the sorrowful ones of calamity lovers ,sorrowful through sepa - ration from thee drink
The design of slaying this tribe of lovers is dangerous .Take care that it ,thou doest not .

[82]   Since ,with a corner of thy eye ,our grief it is possible to take ,
The part of justice it is not ,that our remedy for freedom from grief thou makest not .