You are the moon and the sun is your slave;

In excellence and beauty thou art rich and without peer.Give me alms; for a miserable mendicant am I here.Such a bird am I that every even and morn,From the heaven above, my cry is born.Fill up the goblet; for in the country of LoveThough old I may seem, I am a full-fledged dove.Heart and mind…

May come, slave to the grape I stand confessed!Unloose, oh friend, the knot of thy heart’s care,Despite the warning that the Heavens reveal!For all his thought, never astronomerThat loosed the knot of Fate those Heavens conceal!Not all the changes that thy days unfoldShall rouse thy wonder; Time’s revolving sphereOver a thousand lives like thine has…

Bittersweet is the world’s cupFrom lover’s lips and the cup sips.

I asked, ‘Wherefore lament and cry despite this union fair? ‘He said, ‘In this, the beauty of the Beloved do I share.’If the true Beloved sat not with us, there is no room for grievanceA prosperous King was He; and the beggars He held in abhorrence.Our pleas and cries affect not the Friend endowed with…

Unto the wise, thou shalt not understand–Behold the fault is thine, our words were clear.For all the tumult in my drunken brainPraise God! who trieth not His slave in vain;Nor this world nor the next shall make me fear!My weary heart eternal silence keeps–I know not who has slipped into my heart;Though I am silent,…

In times of youth the rein in my hands,Now on the saddle, I ride in old age.