Translations
Divan-e Shams by Rumi, in translations by A. J. Arberry
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Poems with translations
غزل شمارهٔ 2028گرچه بسی نشستم در نار تا به گردن
Though long enough I have sat in fire up to my neck, now I am up to my neck in the water of union with the Beloved.
غزل شمارهٔ 2039رو سر بِنِه به بالین، تنها مرا رها کن
Go, lay your head on the pillow, let me alone; leave me ruined and night-faring and afflicted as I am.
غزل شمارهٔ 2043دیدی چه گفت بهمن هیزم بنه چو خرمن
Did you see what January said? Lay brushwood like a stack: if December brought not cold, the cold of both be on me.
غزل شمارهٔ 2053با عاشقان نشین و همه عاشقی گزین
Sit with lovers, altogether choose loverhood; be not for a moment companion with him who is not a lover.
غزل شمارهٔ 2054بشنیدهام که عزم سفر میکنی مکن
I have heard that you are intending to journey; do not. That you give your love to another friend and companion; do not.
غزل شمارهٔ 2061بوسه بده خویش را ای صنم سیمتن
Give yourself a kiss, silvery-bodied idol; you who are in Cathay, do not search for yourself in Khotan.
غزل شمارهٔ 2071هر چه کنی تو کرده من دان
Whatever you do, know it is done by Me; whatever the body does, the Soul has done it.
غزل شمارهٔ 2076به جان تو که از این دلشده کرانه مکن
By your own life I implore, do not withdraw from this heartless wretch; suffer me still, do not make for your house.
غزل شمارهٔ 2083اگر سزای لب تو نبود گفته من
If my words were not worthy of your lips, then pick up a heavy stone and shatter my mouth.
غزل شمارهٔ 2091ای هفت دریا گوهر عطا کن
O seven seas, bestow pearls and transmute these things of brass;
غزل شمارهٔ 2092آن دلبر من آمد بر من
My darling came to me; through him my roof and door sprang to life.
غزل شمارهٔ 2105ساقی من خیزد بیگفت من
My saki rises without my speaking and brings that wine of abundant price.
غزل شمارهٔ 2107جان منی، جان منی، جان من
You are my life, you are my life, my life; you are my own, you are my own, my own.
غزل شمارهٔ 2110بانگ برآمد ز خرابات من
A cry went up from my tavern, the heavens were split by my litany:
غزل شمارهٔ 2117پیشتر آ ای صنم شنگ من
Come nearer, my pretty idol, my sympathetic idol of like hue with me.
غزل شمارهٔ 2120دگرباره چو مه کردیم خرمن
Once more our [crescent] moon has reaped a harvest, and we have paraded forth despite the foe.
غزل شمارهٔ 2130ای عاشقان ای عاشقان آن کس که بیند روی او
Lovers, lovers, whoever sees His face, his reason becomes distraught, his habit confounded.
غزل شمارهٔ 2135ای شعشعه نور فلق در قبه مینای تو
The glow of the light of daybreak is in your emerald vault, the goblet of the blood of twilight is your blood-measuring bowl.
غزل شمارهٔ 2142چون بجهد خنده ز من خنده نهان دارم از او
When laughter leaps forth from me, I keep laughter hidden from him; I make a sour face at him; I shout and scream at him.
غزل شمارهٔ 2144کار جهان هر چه شود کار تو کو بار تو کو
Whatever comes of the world’s affairs, how does that affect your business? If the two worlds have become an idol-temple, where is that roguish idol of yours?
غزل شمارهٔ 2155کی ز جهان برون شود جزو جهان هله بگو
Say, how shall a part of the world depart from the world? How shall moisture escape from water, one leap from two?
غزل شمارهٔ 2157سنگ شکاف میکند در هوس لقای تو
The rock splits open in yearning to encounter you; the soul beats wing and pinion in the joy of your air.
غزل شمارهٔ 2166دگرباره بشوریدم بدان سانم به جان تو
Again I am raging. I am in such a state by your soul that every bond you bind, I break, by your soul.
غزل شمارهٔ 2170هر شش جهتم ای جان منقوش جمال تو
All my six directions, Beloved, are graven with your beauty, you shine in the mirror, since it has been polished by you.
غزل شمارهٔ 2172هم آگه و هم ناگه مهمان من آمد او
Both aware and untimely he came as my guest; my heart said, “Who has come?” My soul said, “The moonfaced moon.”
غزل شمارهٔ 2180از این پستی به سوی آسمان شو
From these depths depart towards heaven; may your soul be happy, journey joyfully.
غزل شمارهٔ 2195خوش خرامان میروی ای جان جان بیمن مرو
Sweetly parading you go—my soul of soul, go not without me; life of your friends, enter not the garden without me.
غزل شمارهٔ 2205دوش خوابی دیدهام خود عاشقان را خواب کو
Last night in sleep I dreamed—yet what sleep is there for lovers?—that I was searching inside the Kaaba for where a prayer-niche might be.
غزل شمارهٔ 2214خنک آن دم که نشینیم در ایوان، من و تو
Happy the moment when we, you and I, sit in the palace, with two forms and two figures but with one soul, you and I.
غزل شمارهٔ 2226ای بکرده رخت عشاقان گرو
You who have made the lovers’ whole baggage a wager, do not shed the blood of these lovers, and do not depart.
غزل شمارهٔ 2232به حریفان بنشین خواب مرو
Sit with your comrades, do not go to sleep; do not go to the bottom of the sea like a fish.
غزل شمارهٔ 2239رفتم به کوی خواجه و گفتم که خواجه کو
I went to the master’s street and said, “Where is the master?” They said, “The master is a lover and is drunk and wandering from street to street.”
غزل شمارهٔ 2244سیر نیم سیر نی از لب خندان تو
I am not satiated, not satiated with your laughing lips; a thousand blessings on your lips and teeth!
غزل شمارهٔ 2253نور دل ما روی خوش تو
The light of my heart is your lovely face, my wings and pinions your gentleness;
غزل شمارهٔ 2259هله طبل وفا بزن که بیامد اوان تو
Come, beat the drum of fidelity, for your hour has come; give wine red as the Judas flowers, for your Judas tree has blossomed.
غزل شمارهٔ 2266بگردان ساقی مه روی جام
Saki of the moonface, circulate the cup, deliver me out of shame and name.
غزل شمارهٔ 2277یک چند رندند این طرف در ظل دل پنهان شده
There are a few dissolutes this side, hidden in the shade of the heart, and yonder sun shines from the roof of the heart upon their souls;
غزل شمارهٔ 2280ای عاشقان ای عاشقان دیوانهام کو سلسله
Lovers, lovers, I am mad; where is the chain? Chain-rattler of the soul, your clamor fills the world.
غزل شمارهٔ 2283ساقی فرخ رخ من جام چو گلنار بده
Happy-cheeked saki of mine, give the cup like pomegranate blossom; if for my sake you will not give for the sake of the heart of the Beloved.
غزل شمارهٔ 2293یکی ماهی همیبینم برون از دیده در دیده
I am seeing a moon outside the eye in the eye, which neither eye has seen nor ear heard of.
غزل شمارهٔ 2299سراندازان همیآیی ز راه سینه در دیده
Undaunted you are coming from my breast into my sight, chanting a potent spell and confused stories.
غزل شمارهٔ 2303ناگاه درافتادم زان قصر و سراپرده
Suddenly, having eaten nothing and taken away nothing, I fell from the garden palace and pavilion into the depths of such a well.
غزل شمارهٔ 2313ای جان تو جانم را از خویش خبر کرده
O you whose soul had informed my soul of itself, your thought every moment has made an impression on your slave.
غزل شمارهٔ 2319آن یار غریب من آمد به سوی خانه
That stranger-beloved of mine has returned to the house; today gaze about and behold strange forms!
غزل شمارهٔ 2322هر روز فقیران را هم عید و هم آدینه
Every day is festival and Friday for the poor; has not yesterday’s Friday become an ancient festival?
غزل شمارهٔ 2331ای دلبر بیصورت صورتگر ساده
O formless Beloved of the pure form-fashioner, O you who have given the cup full of tumult to the lovers,
غزل شمارهٔ 2335رندان همه جمعند در این دیر مغانه
The dissolutes are all assembled in the Magian monastery; give one bumper to that unique elder.
غزل شمارهٔ 2336این نیم شبان کیست چو مهتاب رسیده
This midnight who has come like moonshine? It is the messenger of love, coming from the prayer-niche.
غزل شمارهٔ 2345چو بیگاه است و باران خانه خانه
As it is late and raining, to home, to home! Welcome, all friends, to home, to home!
غزل شمارهٔ 2357ای گشته دلت چو سنگ خاره
Your heart has become like granite rock, and what can be done with granite rock?