Arise O Cup- Bearer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACBC D DEEFE GEGEGHEHIJI K| ARISE oh Cup bearer rise and bring | A |
| To lips that are thirsting the bowl they praise | B |
| For it seemed that love was an easy thing | A |
| But my feet have fallen on difficult ways | B |
| I have prayed the wind o'er my heart to fling | A |
| The fragrance of musk in her hair that sleeps | C |
| In the night of her hair yet no fragrance stays | B |
| The tears of my heart's blood my sad heart weeps | C |
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| Hear the Tavern keeper who counsels you | D |
| 'With wine with red wine your prayer carpet dye ' | - |
| There was never a traveller like him but knew | D |
| The ways of the road and the hostelry | E |
| Where shall I rest when the still night through | E |
| Beyond thy gateway oh Heart of my heart | F |
| The bells of the camels lament and cry | E |
| 'Bind up thy burden again and depart ' | - |
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| The waves run high night is clouded with fears | G |
| And eddying whirlpools clash and roar | E |
| How shall my drowning voice strike their ears | G |
| Whose light freighted vessels have reached the shore | E |
| I sought mine own the unsparing years | G |
| Have brought me mine own a dishonoured name | H |
| What cloak shall cover my misery o'er | E |
| When each jesting mouth has rehearsed my shame | H |
| Oh Hafiz seeking an end to strife | I |
| Hold fast in thy mind what the wise have writ | J |
| 'If at last thou attain the desire of thy life | I |
| Cast the world aside yea abandon it ' | - |
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| Translated by Gertrude Bell | K |
Shams Al-din Hafiz Shirazi
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