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. When I became lover (of God), I spake saying : "I have carried off the jewel of my desire (union with God) : " ### I knew not what (tumultuous), blood-scattering, waves, this sea (of unity) hath. ***