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Poems from the Divan of Hafiz

Poems from the Divan of Hafiz 41

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English · Gertrude Bell

The days of Spring are here! the eglantine, The rose, the tulip from the dust have risen— And thou, why liest thou beneath the dust? Like the full clouds of Spring, these eyes of mine Shall scatter tears upon the grave thy prison, Till thou too from the earth thine head shalt thrust.

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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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