Languishing Eyes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKK KLMM N| With the point of thy glance do not hit my heart | A |
| For before Thy languishing eyes I will depart | A |
| In excellence and beauty thou art rich and without peer | B |
| Give me alms for a miserable mendicant am I here | C |
| Such a bird am I that every even and morn | D |
| From the heaven above my cry is born | D |
| Fill up the goblet for in the country of Love | E |
| Though old I may seem I am a full fledged dove | E |
| Heart and mind so overflowed with memory of friend boon | F |
| That from my mind departed the thought of self soon | F |
| Be naught but of the minstrel and of wine | G |
| If a word the reed of my angel design | G |
| In the tumult of resurrection when nobody's nobody's mate | H |
| From the Magian Pir I would fain accept all favors he'd donate | H |
| Zealot Like little boys how long will you me deceive | I |
| With apple milk and honey that in paradise I may receive | I |
| With the wine sellers I have made an oath with heart and lip | J |
| That on the day of grief naught but the cup of love I sip | J |
| O happy the moment of intoxication | K |
| One is free from men of lofty station | K |
| In my heart do I hold treasures great and enow | K |
| Though an indigent may I be called by my foe | L |
| Of HAFIZ's health I forsook hope | M |
| When his Saki came to see me tope | M |
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| Translated by Ismail Salami | N |
Shams Al-din Hafiz Shirazi
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