Section
Ghazaliyat
Poems
غزل شمارهٔ 51بحرفی می توان گفتن تمنای جهانی را
A single word sufficeth well the passion of a world to tell: The joy to view thee night to me moved me to this long history.
English
6 coupletsغزل شمارهٔ 52چند بروی خودکشی پردهٔ صبح و شام را
How long the veil of eve and dawn about Thy beauty shall be drawn? Thy cheek display: make whole to me this incomplete epiphany.
English
6 coupletsغزل شمارهٔ 53نفس شمار به پیچاک روزگار خودیم
One by one we count our breath on the narrow road to death; like a raging sea we roar as we walk along the shore.
English
6 coupletsغزل شمارهٔ 54به فغان نه لب گشودم که فغان اثر ندارد
No lament, no sigh I uttered; naught avail laments and sighs; best unspoken, the heart’s sorrow; there be few to sympathize.
English
6 coupletsغزل شمارهٔ 55ما که افتندهتر از پرتو ماه آمدهایم
Tremulous as the moon-light to our far abode we came; and no man knoweth how we trod this road.
English
5 coupletsغزل شمارهٔ 56ای خدای مهر و مه خاک پریشانی نگر
Lord, who didst bring the stars to birth, look down upon my scattered earth; the atom doth itself enfold; this boundless wilderness behold.
English
5 couplets