emrôz chô har rôz, kharâb-êm kharâb
ma-g’shâ dar andêsha-wo bar gîr rabâb
Sad gôna namâz-ast-o rukû`-ast-o sujûd
ân-râ ke jamâl-é dôst bâsh-ad miHrâb
Today, like every day, we are ruined, ruined (by ‘wine’).
Don’t open the door of worry, but take up the lute!
There are a hundred kinds of prayer, bowing, and prostration6
For the one whose prayer-niche, is the beauty of the Beloved
Never have I told myselfLife is but milk and roses.I daren’t dreamOf what’s not real. But can’t I hope thatNothing’s impossible?Is it just me oris this earth round? ‘Cause it seems to haveNo end where we can hault.Terror always seems eternalBut bliss a mere mirage. Tell me, My Beloved, this.Is there really an answer?Or is…
When thou shalt be disposed to set me light,And place my merit in the eye of scorn,Upon thy side against myself I’ll fight,And prove thee virtuous, though thou art forsworn.With mine own weakness being best acquainted,Upon thy part I can set down a storyOf faults conceal’d, wherein I am attainted,That thou in losing me shalt…
Time bringeth swift to endThe rout men keep;Death’s wolf is nigh to rendThese silly sheep. See, how in pride they goWith lifted head,Till Fate with a sudden blowSmiteth them dead.2.Thou who lovest, life a crow,Winter’s chill and winter’s snow,Ever exiled from the vale’sRoses red, and nightingales: Take this moment to thy heart!When the moment shall…
Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth,That having such a scope to show her pride,The argument all bare is of more worthThan when it hath my added praise beside!O, blame me not, if I no more can write!Look in your glass, and there appears a faceThat over-goes my blunt invention quite,Dulling my lines and doing…
The power of love came into me,and I became fierce like a lion,then tender like the evening star.He said, ‘You’re not mad enough.You don’t belong in this house.’I went wild and had to be tied up.He said, ‘Still not wild enoughto stay with us!’I broke through another layerinto joyfulness.He said, ‘Its not enough.’I died.He said,…
There are a million things going through my head,All of them saying that they want me dead,But no stay strong and fight the pain,Even though i am the one to blame,The pain and hurt inflicted on me,Is not as much hurt that it should be,I should have fell to the floor all tight in a…
