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The Conference of the Birds
The Birds Assemble (7)
Salutations, O Nightingale of the Garden of Love! Utter your plaintive notes caused by the wounds and pains of love. Lament sweetly from the heart, like David. Open your melodious throat and sing of spiritual things. By your songs show men the true Way. Make the iron of your heart as soft as wax, and you will be like David, fervent in the love of God.
The Masnavi
The King and his Three Sons (151-160)
And his wailing and cries of' O God!' In this way by supplication and lamentation He prevails with me altogether." It is on account of their sweet voi...
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Mahmud and Ayaz (continued) (44-53)
Come nigh to thy faithful shepherd, That he may cleanse thy garment of vermin, And mend thy shoes, and kiss the hem of thy robe!" No one equaled that...
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The Vakil of the Prince of Bokhara (42-51)
Sings to me in organ tones, 'To him shall we return.' Like a water-lily seek life there! Yea, like that drawer of water, at the risk of life, Water...
The Masnavi
Bayazid and the Saint (111-120)
Since you have made fiery lust as a verdant garden, And have sowed therein the seed of fidelity, So that nightingales of prayer and praise Ever...
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The Vakil of the Prince of Bokhara (152-161)
O love, love, and heart's desire of love! Let thy first boon to me be this, Though thou knowest my condition clearly, O protector of slaves, listen...
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The Building of the "Most Remote Temple" at Jerusalem (82-91)
I tell the tale of Saba in lovers' style. When the breeze bore Solomon's words to that garden, 'Twas as when bodies meet souls at the resurrection,...
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Bayazid and the Saint (131-140)
O heart haste thither, for God will shine upon you, He will infuse into your soul a new soul, So as to fill you, like a goblet, with wine. Take up...
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The Merchant and his Clever Parrot (72-81)
In a fit state to see the vision of Thyself? When our hearts are bewitched by Thy smiles and frowns, Can we gain life from these two alternating...
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The Building of the "Most Remote Temple" at Jerusalem (92-101)
Sound the note of every bird that draws near; When God sent, thee to the birds, To the predestinarian bird talk predestination, To the bird with...
The Masnavi
The Merchant and his Clever Parrot (42-51)
How shall I not be in the number of those bewitched by Him? How shall I be other than night without His day? Without the vision of His face that...
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The Fowler and the Bird (1-9)
The bird's cries to God for aid. When he had eaten the grain he was caught in the trap, And began to recite the chapters "Yasin" and "An'am." Then he...
The Masnavi
Prologue (11-20)
Let him who lacks this fire be accounted dead! 'Tis the fire of love that inspires the flute,l 'Tis the ferment of love that possesses the wine. The...
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The Merchant and his Clever Parrot (82-91)
I only said, "Is it right? " and He forsook me. Why dost Thou flee from the cries of us on earth? Why pourest Thou sorrow on the heart of the...
The Masnavi
Prologue (41-49)
O Iover, 'twas love that gave life to Mount Sinai, When "it quaked, and Moses fell down in a swoon." Did my Beloved only touch me with his lips, I...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto X (4)
Who takes not wings that he may fly up thither, The tidings thence may from the dumb await! As soon as singing thus those burning suns Had round about...
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Prologue (31-40)
It can hold no more than one day's store. The pitcher of the desire of the covetous never fills, The oyster-shell fills not with pearls till it is...
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The Drunken Turkish Amir and the Minstrel (21-30)
How can a fellow spiritual man mistake his meaning? Thus that minstrel began his intoxicating song, "O give me Thy cup, Thou whom I see not! Thou art...
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Prologue (1-10)
Lamenting its banishment from its home: "Ever since they tore me from my osier bed, I burst my breast, striving to give vent to sighs, He who abides...
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The Fowler and the Bird (28-35)
Since my bashfulness is destroyed, I will publish secrets; How long must I bear this trepidation and anxiety? Formerly I was covered by modesty as by...
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The Building of the "Most Remote Temple" at Jerusalem (52-61)
The faithful hold that the sweet influences of heaven As we are all members of Adam, We have heard these melodies in Paradise; Though earth and water...
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