غزل شمارهٔ 412

Poet: Hafez

Metre: مفاعیلن مفاعیلن مفاعیلن مفاعیلن (هزج مثمن سالم)

Rhyme: انابرو

Poems with the same metre and rhyme: 2

Poetic form: Ghazal

English translation: Clarke
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مرا چشمی‌ست خون‌افشان ز دست آن کمان‌ابرو
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مرا چشمی‌ست خون‌افشان ز دست آن کمان‌ابرو
جهان بس فتنه خواهد دید از آن چشم و از آن ابرو

Mine is an eye, blood-shedding on account of the eye of that bow eyebrow ; Full of tumult will become the world on account of that eye, and of that eyebrow.

2
غلام چشم آن ترکم که در خوابِ خوشِ مستی
نگارین گلشنش روی است و مشکین سایبان ابرو

The slave of the eye I am of that saucy one (such) that, in the sweet sleep of intoxication, The adorned rose-bed is her face ; and the musky canopy, her eyebrow.

3
هلالی شد تنم زین غم که با طغرا‌ی ابرو‌یش
که باشد مه که بنماید ز طاق آسمان ابرو؟

Through this grief, my body became (lean and slender like) a crescent moon. For, notwithstanding her musky (dark fragrant) writing (the decorated eyebrow) Where is the moon that, from the arch of sky will (dare) show its eyebrow ?

4
رقیبان غافل و ما را از آن چشم و جبین هر دم
هزاران گونه پیغام است و حاجب در میان، ابرو

The watchers careless (unacquainted with my secrets) ; and, momently, from that eye and forehead, ours Are a thousand kinds of message ; and, the curtain between (them), is the eyebrow.

5
روانِ گوشه‌گیران را جبینش طرفه گلزار‌ی‌ست
که بر طرْف سمن‌زارش همی گردد چمان ابرو

To the soul of the corner-sitters, the beauty of the rose-bed is (only a little) of his beauty : On the border of whose sward, a saunterer becometh the eyebrow.

6
دگر حور و پری را کس نگوید با چنین حسنی
که این را این چنین چشم است و آن را آن چنان ابرو

Notwithstanding such beauty, again none speaketh of the Hur and the Par!, Saying: "Of this (the Hur) is like this, the eye; and of that (the Pari), like that, the eyebrow.

7
تو کافر‌دل نمی‌بندی نقاب زلف و می‌ترسم
که محرابم بگرداند خم آن دل‌ستان ابرو

Thou, Kafir of heart, bindest not the veil of thy tress. I fear That my prayer-arch will turn, the curve of that heart-ravishing eyebrow.

8
اگر چه مرغ زیرک بود حافظ در هوادار‌ی
به تیر غمزه صیدش کرد چشم آن کمان‌ابرو

Although, in possessing fidelity, Hafiz is the wise bird ; (yet), Him, with the arrow of the glance, prey made, the eye of that bow eyebrow.

Zameen

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Persian text source: Ganjoor

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