O mouth , thou resembleth a ca...

O mouth , thou resembleth a casket of pearls

O Lord around thy face , how fit became the line of a new moon *** Now , me , the vain fancy of union with Thee pleasantly deceiveth

Let us see what picture , sporteth this form of a vain fancy . *** Departed the heart , became blood the eye ; became the body shattered , and the soul fluttered

In love , are wonderful things that successively come . *** Blood became my heart by His hand and by the memory of His intoxicated eye ;

With injury , I have been injured . With me , what has love to do *** If thy disposition turn not , ever again it turneth not

Either the lover on this side , or the Arif on this quarter . *** O rider of camels that left my dwelling

If , the men of Najd , thou meet , to them of my state , speak . *** In love - playing , lawful the Heart - Ravisher regarded my blood

O crowd of Lords love's decision is what *** On account of desire for the men of Najd , the eye slept not

With its severe pain , the heart through rapture melted . *** For God's sake , in the Zat - i - Raml , my heloved was where

Altogether fled wisdom through beholding the fawn . *** If learned and wise thou be , let not go four things

Safety , wine void of alloy , the Beloved , and the void place the desert of solitude *** Wine , give . For , though black of book of the world , I became

Hopeless of the grace of the Eternal , when can one be *** Saki a cup bring and , me , forth from khilvat put

So that , crafty and nothing - earning , door to door , I may wander . *** Since time's picture is in no way fixed ,

Hafiz complaint , make not wine , let us drink . *** Pure is the cup of the heart in the time of the Asaf of the age ,

Arise and cause me to drink of a cup of wine purer than limpid water . *** Verily , the country boasteth of him and of his efforts

Lord ever be this rank and this sublimity *** The seat - kindler of the fortune of the mine of pomp and of grandeur ,

The proof of the country and of religion , is Abu Nasr Abu - 1 - Mu'ali . ***