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. Although, thou snatchedest my honour (and madest me despicable), I turn not my face from Thy door : ### More pleasant is violence from the Beloved, than from the enemy, courtesy. ***