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This page shows only poems in the metre مفعول مفاعلن فعولن (هزج مسدس اخرب مقبوض محذوف).
Divan-e Shams by Rumi, in the metre مفعول مفاعلن فعولن (هزج مسدس اخرب مقبوض محذوف)
We are dancing like motes, we obey the command of your sun.
Last night I vowed anew, I swore an oath by your life,
If I do not express in speech your elegance, I have your love within my breast.
On the day when you pass over my grave, bring to mind this terror and confusion of mine;
We are living by the light of Majesty, we are strangers and exceeding familiar.
This is love: to fly to heaven, every moment to rend a hundred veils;
That enemy of soul and mind and faith has returned, shaking his sleeves—