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Poems from the Divan of Hafiz

Forty-three ghazals of the 14th-century poet of Shiraz, in Gertrude Bell's verse translation.

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Poems from the Divan of Hafiz, tr. Gertrude Bell
Gertrude Bell, 1897

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Gertrude Bell's verse translation (1897) of 43 of the roughly 500 ghazals in the Divan. Bell renders them freely in English rhyme and metre rather than line for line.

Poems from the Divan of Hafiz, translated by Gertrude Lowthian Bell (London: Heinemann, 1897). Public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #74883; Bell's introduction and notes omitted. · Source ↗

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