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SELECTED POEMS Hafiz c. 1315–c. 1390

Hafiz: Selected Poems

13 public-domain poems · 50 pages · free to read

A short collection of Hafiz’s best-loved poems, laid out as a book you can flip through: cover, contents, one poem to a page, and a note about the poet at the end.

Turn pages with the arrows, arrow keys or a swipe. A− / A+ changes the text size; Esc closes the book.

Contents

  1. The bird of gardens sang unto the rose (open in book)
  2. Wind from the east, oh Lapwing of the day (open in book)
  3. Oh Turkish maid of Shiraz! in thy hand (open in book)
  4. From the garden of Heaven a western breeze (open in book)
  5. The nightingale with drops of his heart’s blood (open in book)
  6. Return! that to a heart wounded full sore (open in book)
  7. The rose is not fair without the beloved’s face (open in book)
  8. My friend has fled! alas, my friend has fled (open in book)
  9. All hail, Shiraz, hail! oh site without peer (open in book)
  10. Last night I dreamed that angels stood without (open in book)
  11. The margin of a stream, the willow’s shade (open in book)
  12. The days of Spring are here! the eglantine (open in book)
  13. Where are the tidings of union? that I may arise (open in book)

The poems in this collection are in the public domain. This is a reading edition, not a Pagine Original.

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