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This page shows only poems in the metre مفاعلن فعلاتن مفاعلن فعلن (مجتث مثمن مخبون محذوف).
Ghazaliyat by Hafez, in the metre مفاعلن فعلاتن مفاعلن فعلن (مجتث مثمن مخبون محذوف)
(O beloved !) glance make ; and the market of enchantment shatter ; With the glance of splendour, the face of the (enchanter) Samiri, shatter,
Ruby wine (love for the true Beloved) drink; and the face of those moon of forehead (Arifs of God) - behold : Contrary to the religious order of those (Abids, and Zahids, outward worshippers), the beauty of these (the Arifs of God) behold.
By the soul of the Pir of the tavern ; and by (my) gratitude for the favour of his, (I swear) that, in my head, is naught save desire of service of his
Happy (is) the breeze, ambergris be-perfumed, a perfumed pastile, desired of heart, That, in desire of thee, arose early the morning !
The door (threshold) of the magians' house was swept and water-sprinkled : (At the door) the Pir sat, and to old and to young, salutation gave.
If to the voice of the bulbul and of the turtle-dove, wine thou drink not; Thee, how may I cure? The last remedy is the cautery.
If, kind (on our state), the heart of that Beloved had been, how well it would have been ; For, if (kind) like that, He had been, not like this our state would have been.
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.
If, like the (lofty) cypress, a moment thou move in a rose-garden, In envy of thy face, every rose suffereth a thorn.
(O Beloved!) Thou whose purpose in the world whatever it be, Thou hast; Of the state of the feeble and of the powerless, what grief (is it that) Thou hast ?
O breeze ! the perfume of that musk-scented tress thou hast ; As the token, thou stayest ; for its perfume thou hast.
For the sake of love's existence are man and Pari, A little (pure) desire, show, so that a great happiness (in attaining to true love) thou mayst achieve.
Efforts, a thousand, I made that, my (true) Beloved, Thou shouldst be; (That) the desire-giver of my sorrowful heart, Thou shouldst be.
The tale of my desire, I wrote ; and weeping was my eye: Come ; for, through sorrowfulness without thee, I am ready to die.
To me, from the heart-ravisher who will convey the kindness (of a letter) of a pen? The foot-man of the wind is where, if he still doeth a kindness?
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.
In my eye, the eye-brow of one moon of form, I have made ; The fancy of one fresh of down, I have pictured a place.