Poems from the Divan of Hafiz

Hafiz · 1897


A fourteenth-century poet of Shiraz wrote these, and Gertrude Bell’s English keeps both of his habits at once: he means the wine cup and he means God, and he does not choose between them.

Hanapin sa Amazon

Mula sa Aklatan:

One ray of light from out Thy dwelling-place to pierce my night, oh God, and draw me near.

Hafiz