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. So long as His lip causeth me not to reach my desire (and kisseth me not), like the reed (which, being played, kisseth the lip). ### In my ear, the counsel of the whole world is like wind (that cometh, goeth, and nowhere settleth). ***