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. On the head of the rose, (the illusory beloved), the gentle perfumed breeze, (lust) contemptuously shattereth (and regardeth as naught) the tresses (the decoration) of the hyacinth, ### When, into the midst of the sward (the holy traveller's existence), the perfume of those tresses (the essence of the true Beloved) cometh up. ***