[1]  From the city ,my moon the beloved went this week to my eye by reason of pain of separation a year it is
The state of separation what knowest thou how difficult the state is

[2]   From the grace of her cheek ,in her cheek ,the pupil of my eye
Beheld its own reflection and imagined that on the Beloved's cheek a musky dark mole it is .

[3]   Milk so youthful is my beloved yet droppeth from her lip like sugar ,
Although ,in glancing ,her every eyelash a slaughterer is .

[4]   O thou that art in the city the pointing - stock for generosity ,
Alas in the work of caring for strangers ,wonderful thy negligence is .

[5]   After this ,no doubt is mine in respect of t'he existence of the incomparable jewel ;
For ,on that point ,thy mouth by its exceeding smallness and freshness a sweet proof is .

[6]   Glad tidings ,they Fate and Destiny or a party of lovers of God gave that thou wilt pass by us may God's grace be thy companion
Change not thy good resolve for a happy omen it is .

[7]   By what art ,doth the mountain of grief of separation draw
Shattered Hafiz ,who ,through the weeping of his body ,like a reed is .

[1]  Die Stadt verließ seit einer Woche Mein Mond, mir scheints ein Jahr; Du kennest nicht der Trennung Leiden, Wie schwer sie sind.

[2]  Ich sah von meinen schwarzen Augen Auf ihr den Wiederschein, Und meint', es sey auf ihren Wangen Ein Moschusmaal.

[3]  Es träufelt Milch von ihren Lippen, Süß wie das Zuckerbrod, Doch sind die Wimpern, wenn sie koset, Ein Todespfeil.

[4]  Du, die ob ihrer Seelengüte Mit Fingern zeigt die ganze Stadt, Warum bekümmerst du so wenig Um Freunde dich?

[5]  Ich zweifle nicht mehr, ob es eine Karfunkelperle giebt? Dein Mund beweiset zur Genüge Die Wahrheit mir.

[6]  Du würdest, hieß die frohe Kunde, Bey mir vorübergehn, Verwirf nicht den Entschluß, er ist Ein gutes Loos.

[7]  Wie trägt Hafis? die Felsenbürde Von deinem Trennungsleid, Er, der durch Klagen und durch Weinen Zusammenschwand.

[1]  If ,like the lofty cypress ,a moment thou move in a rose - garden ,
In envy of thy face ,every rose suffereth a thorn .

[2]   On account of the infidelity of thy tress ,together are every assembly and a great tumult
On account of the sorcery of thy eye ,together are every corner and a sick one .

[3]   O intoxicated eye of the beloved to sleep ,like my fortune ,go not ;
For ,in pursuit ,from every direction ,is the sigh of^ a wakeful one .

[4]   The scattering of Thy Path's dust is my soul's cash ,although
On Thy part the soul's cash hath not even a little value .

[5]   O heart ever ,a malignant opinion of the tress of heart - enslavers ,express not
When malignant of opinion thou becomest ,how openeth to thee a work

[6]   Separate from the body went my head and ,awhile ,this work ended not ;
My hear f caught grief of love and Thine ,was no grief for a captive .

[7]   To him ,I said Like the centre - point enter into the midst of the circle of desirous ones
With laughter ,he spake ,saying Hafiz 1 in what compass ,art thou

[1]  Wenn im Rosenbeete du Cedern ähnlich schwankest, Fressen Rosen alsogleich Eifersüchtig Dornen.

[2]  Jedes Ringel deines Haars Ist voll List und Truges, Deiner Augen Zauberei Machet nichts als Kranke.

[3]  Trunknes Auge meines Freund's Schlaf' nicht wie mein Glück ein, Ach und Wehe hält dich rings Wach' von allen Seiten.

[4]  Meiner Seele Münze streu' Ich im Staub' des Weg's hin, Aber diese baare Münz' Zahlet deinen Werth nicht.

[5]  Wandle nicht, mein Herz, den Weg Von den Lockensklaven, Wenn du blind den Weg verfolgst, Wie wird's dir gelingen!

[6]  Hingegeben ist mein Haupt, Ungethan die Hauptsach', Fortgeflohen ist mein Herz, Und kein Herz ergriff ich.

[7]  Einem Punkte bist du gleich, Sprach ich in dem Kreise, Lächelnd sprach sie, du Hafis Gleichest einem Kreise.

[1]  From the true Beloved ,is my pain and my remedy ,also :
A sacrifice for Him ,became my heart ,and my life ,also .

[2]   Those that say That elegance is better than beauty To them ,say
This beauty hath our Beloved and that elegance also .

[3]   Be memory of that one ,who ,with desire for our blood ,
Shattered the covenant ,and the oath ,also .

[4]   Friends within the veil ,we utter speech
It will be uttered with tales ,also .

[5]   When ,to an end ,have come the nights of union ,
Passeth away the time of separation also .

[6]   Only one splendour of His face is the glory of both worlds ,'
To thee ,I uttered this matter evident and hidden ,also .

[7]   Not ,on the world's work ,is reliance
Nor ,on the revolving sphere whereto is attributed the world's work also .

[8]   10 .Not the judge ,doth the lover fear ,wine ,bring
Nor the punishment of the Sultan ,also .

[9]   Knoweth that Hafiz is a lover of God the muhtasib
And the Asaf of Sulaiman's court ,also .

[1]  Mein Schmerz kommt von der Freundinn, Und auch die Arznei dazu. Mein Herz ist aufgeopfert, Und meine Seele auch dazu.

[2]  Die Leute sagen: dieses Ist besser als die Schönheit noch, Doch sie besitzet Schönheit, Und dieses Andre auch dazu.

[3]  Erinnert Euch der Freundinn, Die blos aus Durst nach meinem Blut Den Bund zuerst gebrochen, Und die Verträge auch dazu.

[4]  Ihr Freunde, ich erzähle Verhüllt im Schleier Euch das Wort, Doch sagt es immer wieder Und macht Erzählungen dazu. Die trunkene Narzisse, Die Locken helfen auch dazu.

[5]  Die Nächte des Genusses Mit ihrem Himmel sind vorbei, Doch tröstet Euch, die Nächte Der Trennung schwinden auch dazu. Das Bild von ihrem Maale, O weh! vergoß so oft mein Blut, Zuerst vor allen Leuten, Und später heimlich auch dazu.

[6]  Der beiden Welten Schimmer Ist nur ein Abglanz ihres Lichts, Dies sage ich vor Allen, Und sag' dies heimlich auch dazu.

[8]  Es fürchten sich Verliebte, Nur keinem Richter bringe Wein, Und wenn du willst, so bringe Des Sultans Wein-Verboth dazu.

[9]  Es weiß des Weines Wächter, Er weiß, Hafis sey tief verliebt, Und nicht allein der Weinvogt, Es weiß es der Wesir dazu.

[1]  In the morning ,with the desire of repentance to my heart I said I seek the counsel of God ,
Spring ,repentance - shatterer ,arriveth what remedy may I make

[2]   True speech ,I utter : I cannot see that this state is very difficult
For the companions drink wine and lookiug on^ I make .

[3]   To the memory of the King's assembly ,like the rose - bud with laughing lip ,
The cup ,I take and ,through desire ,my raiment ,rent I make .

[4]   By the cup's circulation ,remedy ye my brain
If ,from the midst of the banquet of joy ,retirement I make .

[5]   Through the Friend's face ,blossomed my purpose like the rose
To the hard stone ,consignment of the enemy's head that separation recur not I make .

[6]   The tavern - beggar am I but at the time of intoxication ,behold
Against the lofty sky ,loftiness ; and against the ordering star ,order ,I make

[7]   Not mine ,is the way and usage of morsel - abstaining .For ,
The reprobation of the profligate ,the wine - drinker ,why do I make

[8]   On the throne of the rose ,I place a beauteous idol like a Sultan
With the hyacinth ,and the lily ,the glory of collar and of bracelet I make .

[9]   Through wine - drinking ,distressed became Hafiz ;
With the sound of the harp and with wine ,his mystery of distress evident I make .

[10]   Not the ka'zi ,nor the mudarris ,nor the muhtasib ,nor the fakih are we
Mine ,what profit that forbidding of the wine - drinker I should make .

[1]  Ich will, so sprach ich reuig, Nun Buße thun, Der Frühling bricht die Reue, Was ist zu thun?

[2]  Ich spreche nur die Wahrheit, Ich kann's nicht seh'n, Die Freunde sollen trinken, Ich soll's nicht thun.

[3]  Ich will auf die Gesundheit Des Schahs das Glas Ergreifen, und es lachend In Stücke thun. Wenn von des Freunds Rubinen, Ein Kuß mir wird, Will ich den Lauf des Lebens Von Neuem thun.

[4]  Heilt mein Gehirn mit Bechern, Wenn ich vielleicht In dieser Zeit der Freuden Will Buße thun.

[5]  Weil vom Gesicht die Rose Des Wunsches blüht, Will ich den Kopf des Feindes Auf Steine thun.

[6]  Ich bin der Schenke Bettler Allein im Rausch Soll mein Gebeth, der Himmel, Die Sterne thun.

[7]  Ich der auf einen Bißen, Mich nicht versteh', Soll ich wohl einen Vorwurf Den Trunknen thun.

[8]  Mein Liebchen soll erhöhen Der Rosenthron, Ich will dann mit Jasminen Den Hals umthun.

[9]  Es schmerzt Hafisen heimlich Zu trinken Wein, Wir wollen's kund mit Pfeifen Und Lauten thun.

[1]  God ,I praise for the justice of the great Sultan
Ahmad bin Shaikh Uvais bin Hasan Ilkhani .

[2]   Khan bin Khan ,Shahinshah of Shahin - shah - descent
That one ,whom ,if thou call the soul of the world 'tis well .

[3]   Confidence in thy fortune bringeth he who hath seen and he who hath not seen
Excellent O thou that art worthy of such grace of God .

[4]   If ,without thee ,the moon ascend ,it in two halves they dash
The fortune of Ahmad Muhammad and the miracle of a Holy one God

[5]   Heart from king and beggar ,the splendour of thy fortune ravisheth
Far be the evil - eye ,for both soul thou art ,and also the beloved thou art .

[6]   Turk - like ,the forelock arrange .For ,in thy fortune ,is
The liberality of a Khakan and the energy of a Chingiz Khan .

[7]   Though apparently far ,we are ,to thy recollection the goblet ,we drink
For ,in the spiritual journey ,distance of stage is none .

[8]   Not a rose - bud of ease blossomed from my Persian clay
Excellent the Tigris of Baghdad and the fragrant wine .

[9]   The lover's head that was not the dust of the Beloved's door ,
From the labour of head - revolvingness ,when is freedom his

[10]   O morning breeze the dust of the Beloved's path ,bring
That ,luminous with it ,the eye of his heart ,Hafiz may make .

[11]   Time consider plunder to that degree that thou canst
O soul the out - come of life is only this moment if thou knowesfr .

[12]   The desire - giving of the sphere hath life in barter ,
Strive that ,from fortune ,the justice of ease thou mayst take .

[13]   The counsel of lovers ,hear and out from the door of joy come
For all this is not worth the occupation of a transitory world .

[14]   Before the zahid ,boast not of profligacy .For one cannot utter
To the physician ,not the confidant ,the state of a hidden pain .

[15]   Gardener when hence I pass ,be it unlawful to thee ,
If ,in my place ,a cypress other than the beloved thou plant

[16]   The jar - shatterer knoweth not this value that to the sufi ,
Is a household chattel like a pomegranate ruby .

[17]   Thou goest and ,the people's blood ,thy eye - lashes shed
O soul fiercely impetuously thou goest fear is ,behind ,thou wilt remaim .

[18]   O sweet mouth with the prayer of the night - risers ,strive not
In the shelter of the one ineffable name of God is the seal having the quality of a Sulaiman .

[19]   Aside from the glance of Thy eye ,my heart ,I kept .But ,
Thy eyebrow ,bow - possessor ,taketh the heart by its forehead .

[20]   O brothers compassion .Went my precious Yusuf ,
For grief for whom ,wonderful in wretchedness I beheld thestate of the old man Y'akub of Kin'an .

[21]   The wine's delight will slay the penitent zahid
O sage do not a deed ,that bringeth penitence .

[22]   One day ,by my door ,enter ,so that ,with joy ,the hand I may clap ;
Saying : Verily ,joined to me is luminosity as a guest .

[23]   With kindness ,tranquillise Hafiz's heart ,
O Thou ,whose beauteous tress - coil is the assembly - place perfection of dispersion

[24]   O idol ,stony of heart if of me careless thou be ,
My own state ,I will utter before Asaf the second .

[25]   O true Beloved Thy well - wisher ,I am ,and this I know that Thou knowest
For ,both the un - seen ,Thou seest ; and also the un - written by fate Thou readest .

[26]   In the adoration of Adam ,the angel made resolve of thy ground - kiss ,
For ,in Thy beauty ,something he found more than the way ,. human .

[27]   Thy tress's curl is now ,in God's name ,the collectedness of hearts
Be safety thine ,from that breeze that exciteth dispersion

[28]   From fortune ,I have the hope that his girdle I may loose
O sky for God's sake ,for me loose the knot frown from the forehead .

[29]   O true Beloved dishevel Thy tress and ,to sport and to dancing ,bring the Sufi people of the world
That ,from every patch of his ragged garment ,thousands of idols of hypocrisy Thou mayst scatter .

[30]   The lamp - kindler of our eye is the breeze of the tress of lovely ones
Lord to this gathering smoo .th state of the tress be not grief for the breeze of dispersion

[31]   Of the mystery of the lover and of the Beloved ,what gaineth the reproacher
The non - seeing eye especially seeth not a secret mystery .

[32]   To be vexed with fellow way - farers ,is not the action of a work - knower
The difficulty of the stage ,endure in memory of a time of ease .

[33]   Alas that pleasure of night - sitting up that passed swiftly like the morning breeze
O heart the value of union ,thou knowest ,only when behind in separation thou remainest .

[34]   The solving of the work of desirous ones is in that heart - binding eye - brow
For God's sake ,a moment with towards us unloose the knot frown from thy forehead .

[35]   Hafiz thee ,the fancy of the yoke of His tress fascinates
See ,so that the ring of impossible fortune ,thou shake not .

[36]   People spake ,saying In beauty a second Yusuf thou art
When ,well ,I looked ,verily better than that I had heard thou art .

[37]   Sweeter than that which ,with sweet smile ,they say thou art ,
Khusrau of the lovely ones for ,the Shirin of the age ,thou art .

[38]   To the folded rose - bud ,thy mouth ,one cannot compare
Never is the rose - bud with this narrow - mouthness .

[39]   If ,on account of thy stature and gait ,the moving cypress remained behind in its place ,
Move thou .For thou hast surpassed the moving cypress in movingness .

[40]   A hundred times Thou saidest : From this mouth ,thy desire I give
Like the noble ten - tongued lily ,why art Thou all a tongue

[41]   Thou saidest Thy desire ,I will give thy life ,I wilt take
I fear my desire ,Thou givest not and my life Thou wilt take .

[42]   Through the shield of my life ,Thy sick ,languishing eye causeth to pass the poplar arrow
The eye sick ,who hath seen with so strong a bow

[43]   O true Beloved like the worthless tear from the eye of man ,him Thou easiest ,
Him ,whom a moment ,away from Thy sight ,Thou drivest .

[44]   Away from before Thyself ,Thy own grief - stricken Hafiz ,drive not
For ,through love for Thy face ,he gave sacrificed heart ,faith ,and youth .

[45]   In the path of love to Thee ,like the pen ,a foot out of his head Hafiz made ,
It ,one moment ,like a letter out of kindness ,why readest Thou not

[46]   Breeze of the morning of happiness for that trace that thou knowest ,
To a certain one's street ,pass at that time that thou knowest .

[47]   The footman of the chamber of mystery ,thou art and on the head of the Path ,is my eye
By manliness ,hot by order ,urge in that way ,that thou knowest .

[48]   Say : From my hand passed my feeble soul .For God's sake ,
From Thy ruby lip soul - refreshing ,give that that Thou knowest .

[49]   O true Beloved these few words I wrote ,in such a way that the stranger hath not known
Them by way of kindness ,do Thou also read in such a way that Thou knowest .

[50]   On Thy girdle ,gold - woven ,hope how may I not establish
O idol in that waist ,is a subtlety that Thou knowest .

[51]   With us ,the image of Thy slaying sword is the tale of the thirsty one and of water whereto he desireth to reach
Thy own captive ,Thou seizest .Slay in such a way that Thou knowest .

[52]   Hafiz in this matter ,one are Turki and Tazi Arabian
Love's tale ,relate in every tongue language that thou knowest .

[53]   Two friends holy travellers good of understanding ,and of old wine a quantity ,two mans ,'
A little leisure ,and a book ,and a sward - corner .

[54]   For this ,and the next ,world I give not this state
Though ,of carpers momently ,fall upon me

[55]   Every one who ,for the world's treasure ,gave the treasure of contentment ,
Sold ,the precious Yusuf of Egypt for a very paltry sum .

[56]   Come ; for not less becometh the amplitude of this workshop the world
By the austerity of one like thee or ,by the profligacy of one like me .

[57]   On the day of events of death with cheering wine ,'tis necessary to tell one's grief
For ,on none ,is reliance at a time like this .

[58]   Happy of heart ,in a corner sit and behold
That none keepeth in mind so strange a calamity .

[59]   In the hand of the mean the watcher I keep seeing my idol the beloved
Thus ,the vengeful sky recognised the right of service of one like me .

[60]   In the mirror of the Picture - establisher God the hidden form ,behold
If ,for thee out of the country of contentment ,desire maketh a native land .

[61]   O heart strive thou for patience .For God delivereth not
A seal - ring so precious as patience to the hand of an evil one .

[62]   From the fierce wind of vicissitude ,one cannot see ,
That ,in this sward ,hath been even a red rose ,or a wild white rose .

[63]   From this simum blast of lust that ,by the garden - borders ,passed ,
Wonder that from the heart of love's lust the colour of a rose remaineth ,or the perfume of a jessamine .

[64]   I have heard that ,for dogs ,thou appointest a collar
On Hafiz's neck ,why placest thou not a rope

[65]   Hafiz in this calamity ,ruined became time's temper
Where is the thought of a physician or the judgment of a Barhaman

[66]   Drink the cup of the wine of unity of a man
So that ,by it grief's root ,up from the heart ,thou mayst pluck .

[67]   Expanded ,keep the heart ,like the cup of wine
Head closed how long like a large jar

[68]   When ,from the jar of selflessness ,a ritl thou drinkest ,
Less of thyself voluntarily thou boastest of self .

[69]   Like the humble and worthless stone at thy foot be ,not like the water of the cloud glorying in sublimity
All colour of deceit ,thou mixest and wet of skirt lust - stained thou art .

[70]   To wine ,bind the heart ,so that ,like a man ,
The neck of hypocrisy and of piety thou mayst shatter .