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The Conference of the Birds
The Sixth Valley the Valley of Astonishment and Bewilderment (3)
A passer-by, who saw a mother weeping over her daughter's grave said: 'This woman is superior to us men, for she knows whom she has lost and from whom she is parted. Happy the woman, or man, who knows w'hom he has lost, and for whom he weeps. As for me, though I sit in mourning and my tears flow like rain, I do not know for whom I weep. This woman carries away the ball of excellence from thousands like me, for she has found the perfume of the being she has lost.'-
The Masnavi
The Vakil of the Prince of Bokhara (172-181)
If I weep, I cease to praise and magnify thee." He spoke thus, and then fell to weeping, So many "Ahs" and "Alases" proceeded from his heart, Talking...
Pyramid Texts
Texts Of Miscellaneous Contents, Utterances 628-658 (633)
1791. To say: Thou art she who weeps for him.
The Masnavi
The Old Man who made no Lamentation at the Death of his Sons (1-10)
He turned to his wife and said, "O dame, The harvest of December is not as that of July; Though they be dead or though they be living, Are they not...
Mundaka Upanishad
Third Mundaka, First Khanda (2)
On the same tree man sits grieving, immersed, bewildered by his own impotence (an-îsâ). But when he sees the other lord (îsâ) contented and knows his...
The Masnavi
The Sufi and the Qazi (1-11)
The dead regret not dying, but having lost opportunities in life. Well said that Leader of mankind, That whosoever passes away from the world Does...
The Masnavi
The Old Man who made no Lamentation at the Death of his Sons (Summary)
After short anecdotes of Pharaoh's magicians, of the mule who complained to the camel that he was always stumbling, and of the prophet Ezra, comes...
Chuang Tzu
Knowledge Travels North. (13)
Joy and sorrow come and go, and over them I have no control. "Alas! the life of man is but as a stoppage at an inn. He knows that which comes within...
The Masnavi
The Three Fishes (38-46)
He continued, "Hidden inside this body of mine Is a precious pearl, ten drachms in weight. That jewel of right, belonged to you, You have lost it, as...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXX (5)
The ice, that was about my heart congealed, To air and water changed, and in my anguish Through mouth and eyes came gushing from my breast. She, on...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XV (4)
And if my reasoning appease thee not, Thou shalt see Beatrice; and she will fully Take from thee this and every other longing. Endeavour, then, that s...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXXI (3)
Never to thee presented art or nature Pleasure so great as the fair limbs wherein I was enclosed, which scattered are in earth. And if the highest...
The Masnavi
Prologue (21-30)
Through grief my days are as labor and sorrow, My days move on, hand in hand with anguish. Yet,, though my days vanish thus, 'tis no matter, Do thou...
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...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XX (2)
Truly I wept, leaning upon a peak Of the hard crag, so that my Escort said To me: "Art thou, too, of the other fools? Here pity lives when it is...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tablet VIII (2)
May the holy River Ulaja, along whose banks we grandly used to stroll, mourn you. May the pure Euphrates, to which we would libate water from our...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XXIII: On Marriage. (7)
"For to a man after death his children bring renown, Just as corks bear the net, Saving the fishing-line from the deep." according to the tragic poet...
Bundahishn
Chapter XXX (15)
When, after they set apart a father from his consort (hambâz), a brother from his brother, and a friend from his friend, they suffer, every one for...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 4 (4.4.14)
Verily, while we are here we may know this. If you have known it not, great is the destruction. Those who know this become immortal, But others go...
The Masnavi
The Sufi and the Qazi (94-103)
The ecstasy is past, but your members recall it; Ask them about it, or call it to mind yourself. When sorrow seizes you, if you are wise, You will...
The Masnavi
The Woman who lost all her infants (Summary)
A woman bore many children in succession, but none of them lived beyond the age of three or four months. In great distress she cried to God, and then...
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