Divān

Hafez

Perseus:bib:oclc, 559481156. The Dīvān .Translated for the first time out of the Persian into English prose, with critical and explanatory remarks, with an introductory preface, with a note on Ṣūfīism, and with a life of the author, by H. Wilberforce Clarke. Calcutta, India. 1891.

  1. O rose (murshid, beautiful as the rose) ! perhaps the pride of beauty hath not given thee permission. ### That thou makest no inquiry as to the state (full of grief, void of hypocrisy) of the distraught nightingale (Hafiz). ***