A poem for you
My bosom grac`d with each gay flow`r.
I grasp the bowl, my nymph in glee;
The monarch of the world this hour,
Is but a slave compare`d to me.
Intrude not with the taper`s light,
My social friends, with beaming eyes;
Trundle around a starry night,
And lo! my nymph the moon supplies.
Away, thy sprinkling odours spare,
Be not officiously thus kind;
The waving ringlets of my Fair,
Shed perfume to the fainting wind.
My ears th` enlivening notes inspire,
As lute or harp alternate sound;
My eyes those ruby lips admire,
Or each the glasses sparkling round.
Then let no moments steal away,
Without thy mistress and thy wine;
The spring flowers blossom to decay,
And youth but glows to own decline.
Hafiz (one of the greatest Iranian poet)
Thomas law
1 Comments:
Great poem. Hafis is well known in the West.
The line "the spring flowers blossom to decay" reminds me a line of a French poem that goes like this:
"Et rose elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses,
l'espace d'un matin".
That's from François de Malherbe who lived about 400 years ago
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