Ghazal 0001
by Star ("O limitless and compassionate one")
and Khalili ("You are a sudden
resurrection") Ghazal
0032 by Schimmel ("I’ve seen no joy without You in
both
worlds")
Star ("When All You Had Was Him")
and Cowan ("Apart from you my Beloved,
I’ve found no joy in the two
worlds") Ghazal
0036 by Star ("O Master, Come Here!") Ghazal
0037 by Fattal ("O Love who devours the heart") Ghazal
0084 by Kolin ("I smile like a flower not only with my lips")
and Arberry ("Like the rose I am
laughing with all my body") Ghazal
0100 by Barks ("You that give new life to this planet")
and Arberry ("Come, you who have given
new life to the world") Ghazal
0110 by Barks ("Don’t worry about saving these
songs!")
and Gamard ("(Go ahead and) break our
harp, O lofty one") Ghazal
0123 by Chittick ("I saw that good and beautiful King")
and Star ("Throw Down Your Staff") Ghazal
0127 by Chittick ("Where is the knowing, nimble Minstrel of
Love") Ghazal
0164 by Kolin ("My body pulled my soul from the higher
planes") Ghazal
0171 by Barks ("When I see Your Face, the stones start
spinning!")
and Gamard ("When you show those
rose-colored cheeks (of Yours)") Ghazal
0211 by Barks ("Again, the violet bows to the lily") Ghazal
0258 by Khalili ("if you stay awake") Ghazal
0310 by Star ("Here He comes"")
Barks ("The moon has come back out")
Arberry ("That moon has returned")
and Cowan ("That moon, undreamt even
by the sky, returns") Ghazal
0312 by Chittick ("By your spirit, leave not your work at
hand!")
and Star ("O seeker") Ghazal
0314 by Barks ("Those who don't feel this Love")
and Nicholson ("You who possess not
Love - it is lawful to you") Ghazal
0323 by Khalili ("in every breath") Ghazal
0330 by Khalili ("once again my sweetheart found me in town")
Star ("Come, come, the roses are in
bloom!")
and Arberry ("Come, come, for the
rosebower has blossemed") Ghazal
0332 by Helminski ("The House of Love")
and Arberry ("This house wherein
continually rings the sound of the bellstaff") Ghazal
0391 by Chittick ("Oh minstrel, play this tune: 'Our Friend
has come drunk'") Ghazal
0408 by Khalili ("how long") Ghazal
0410 by Chittick ("That thieving Heart-ravisher gave me a
kiss and went!") Ghazal
0419 by Star ("Soul of all souls, life of all life") Ghazal
0423 by Barks ("The Source of Joy")
and Arberry ("Has perchance this
instant the tip of that tress become scattered?") Ghazal
0426 by Nicholson ("I am not Muslim!")
and Barks ("Not Christian or Jew or
Muslim") Ghazal
0441 by Barks ("What I want is to see your face")
Khalili ("show me your Face")
and Arberry ("Show your face, for the
orchard and rosegarden are my desires;") Ghazal
0445 by Barks ("Thorn Witness") Ghazal
0451 by Star ("Don't hide - the sight of your face is a
blessing.") Ghazal
0457 by Star ("This is my Wish") Ghazal
0505 by Star ("Still some Secrets") Ghazal
0508 by Maufroy ("Your Love has prepared a feast for me") Ghazal
0528 by Khalili ("Who is this existence")
and Arberry ("Who is that, who is that
who makes the breast sorrowful") Ghazal
0532 by Barks ("Each note")
and Gamard ("The advice of anyone is
never useful for lovers") Ghazal
0538 by Maufroy ("At every instant the heart hears this call
from the blazing sun") Ghazal
0543 by Barks ("When I press my hand to my chest")
and Arberry ("My Beloved leaves me not
so much as to scratch my own head") Ghazal
0550 by Khalili ("the voice of a Savior") Ghazal
0553 by Kolin ("I can be without anyone but not without you") Ghazal
0598 by Star ("You Came to See the Sun Rise")
Barks ("Who gets up early to discover
the moment light begins?")
and Arberry ("Morn-arising friends") Ghazal
0609 by Khalili ("if you dwell very long") Ghazal
0636 by Barks ("Inside this new love, die")
Star ("The Black Cloud")
and Arberry ("Die now, die now, in
this Love, die") Ghazal
0638 by Maufroy ("Since you saw this spring, why didn't you
become water?") Ghazal
0735 by Barks ("Auction")
and Arberry ("Last night our elephant
remembered India again") Ghazal
0742 by Chittick ("Out of jealousy, Love makes the lover
appear like everyone's enemy") Ghazal
0791 by Barks ("A baby pigeon stands on the edge of a nest
all day")
and Arberry ("This fledgling pigeon
essayed the air and flew off") Ghazal
0805 by Barks ("Walking Out of the Treasury Building") Ghazal
0824 by Barks ("Whose idea was this") Ghazal
0838 by Khalili ("if you can't go to sleep") Ghazal
0911 by Barks ("On the day I die, when I'm being carried
toward the grave")
Schimmel ("The day I've died, my pall
is moving on -")
Cowan ("When my bier is carried on the
day of my death")
Arberry ("On the day of death, when my
bier is on the move")
Star ("On that final day when my
casket moves along")
and Khalili ("when i die when my
coffin is being taken out") Ghazal
0922 by Barks ("The Pattern Improves") Ghazal
0940 by Barks ("Love has taken away my practices")
and Arberry ("Love for you took away
my rosary") Ghazal
0945 by Khalili ("a voice out of this world calls on our
souls") Ghazal
0958 by Barks ("God in the Stew") Ghazal
0966 by Schimmel ("Said someone: "Look! Master Sana'i is
dead!"")
Star ("Someone said, "Master San'ai is
dead."")
Barks ("Someone says, Sanai is dead")
and Arberry ("Someone said, "Master
Sana'i is dead."") Ghazal
1000 by Chittick ("The red rose, which tears its cloak to
shreds") Ghazal
1051 by Barks ("The Tent")
and Gamard ("It was night, but {only}
to strangers") Ghazal
1077 by Barks ("My Worst Habit")
and Arberry ("I have a bad habit; I am
weary, pray excuse me") Ghazal
1095 by Helminski ("Sweep the Dust Off the Sea")
and Arberry ("That beauty handed me a
broom") Ghazal
1121 by Barks ("Spring, and no one can be still")
and Arberry ("Joyous spring has
arrived") Ghazal
1171 by Kolin ("Open the Door") Ghazal
1194 by Khalili ("if you don't have enough madness in you") Ghazal
1197 by Khalili ("if your Beloved has the life of a fire") Ghazal
1219 by Khalili ("i don't need a companion who is nasty and
sour") Ghazal
1288
by Barks ("Hallaj said what he said and went to the origin")
and Arberry ("When union with the
Beloved showed itself to Mansur") Ghazal
1353 by Barks ("Why doesn't the soul fly when it hears the
call?")
Star ("My soul wants to fly away")
Schimmel ("How should the soul not
take wings")
Cowan ("Why doesn't the soul fly, when
from your glorious Presence")
and Arberry ("Why does the soul not
take wing") Ghazal
1370 by Barks ("The Whole Place Goes Up") Ghazal
1374 by Kolin ("O lovers Love will lay a carpet of treasures")
Star ("A Ball of Wax")
and Chittick ("Oh Lovers! Oh Lovers! I
turn dust into gems!") Ghazal
1375 by Khalili ("i've come again like a new year") Ghazal
1380 by Barks ("Yesterday you put a crown on my head") Ghazal
1391 by Khalili ("how long can i see myself") Ghazal
1393 by Khalili ("i was dead i came alive") Ghazal
1395 by Khalili ("i am the minstrel of eternal love")
and Kolin ("I am love's musician
playing for joy") Ghazal
1400 by Chittick ("I will run quickly, quickly, to reach the
riders")
and Khalili ("Running and leaping
nonstop") Ghazal
1419 by Khalili ("i was ready to tell the story of my life") Ghazal
1462 by Kolin ("I am a sculptor") Ghazal
1472 by Khalili ("once again i broke free of the chains") Ghazal
1486 by Barks ("The Shape Of My Tongue")
Kolin ("My soul is a mirror that
reveals secrets")
and Arberry ("Like a mirror my soul
displays secrets") Ghazal
1502 by Star ("The Shining Hero") Ghazal
1506 by Khalili ("believe me i wasn't always like this") Ghazal
1509 by Khalili ("i've travelled around") Ghazal
1512 by Khalili ("restless now i go to the door") Ghazal
1515 by Khalili ("how very close is your soul with mine") Ghazal
1517 by Khalili ("you ask me who you are") Ghazal
1519 by Khalili ("come and see me today i am away") Ghazal
1521 by Khalili ("only you i choose among the entire world") Ghazal
1523 by Khalili ("i am no lion") Ghazal
1532 by Khalili ("come lets fall in love again") Ghazal
1535 by Khalili ("come on sweetheart, lets adore one another") Ghazal
1540 by Khalili ("come lets speak of our souls") Ghazal
1591 by Khalili ("the time has come to break all my promises") Ghazal
1596 by Khalili ("all my friends departed like dreams") Ghazal
1615 by Barks ("I may be clapping my hands")
and Arberry ("If I am hand-clapping, I
belong not to the clappers") Ghazal
1620 by Barks ("There is a passion in me")
and Arberry ("There is a passion in my
head that I have no inclination for") Ghazal
1628 by Barks ("When I see you and how you are")
and Arberry ("I closed my eyes to
creation when I beheld his beauty") Ghazal
1658 by Star ("The Arrows of Larger Bows") Ghazal
1668 by Star ("The Body Is Too Slow For Me") Ghazal
1688 by Barks ("I Am Not This")
and Arberry ("I have got out of my own
control") Ghazal
1725 by Khalili ("haven't i told you") Ghazal
1767 by Chittick ("How do you know what birds we are") Ghazal
1769 by Helminski ("Love is a Stranger") Ghazal
1789 by Star ("On the Threshold")
and Arberry ("Lovers, lovers, it is
time to migrate from the world") Ghazal
1823 by Barks ("I don't get tired of You")
and Arberry ("I became not satiated
with you - this is my only sin") Ghazal
1837 by Barks ("The Blocked Road")
and Arberry ("Lord, would that I knew
what is the desire of my Beloved") Ghazal
1861 by Barks ("The New Rule")
Helminski ("A New Rule")
and Arberry ("It is the rule with
drunkards to fall upon one another") Ghazal
1888 by Barks ("There is some kiss we want")
Star ("Come here and catch a kiss")
and Arberry ("ome, how much is a kiss
from that precious ruby?") Ghazal
1897 by Star ("In Silence") Ghazal
1910 by Barks ("Notice how each particle moves")
and Gamard ("See {how} every part of
the world passes on") Ghazal
1919 by Schimmel ("Look! This is love - to fly toward the
heavens")
and Arberry ("This is love: to fly to
heaven") Ghazal
1937 by Star ("From Box to Box")
Barks ("Unmarked Boxes")
and Arberry ("Do not grieve over any
joy that has gone forever") Ghazal
1957 by Helminski ("The Intellectual")
Barks ("An intellectual is all the
time showing off")
and Arberry ("The intellectual is all
the time engaged in showing off") Ghazal
2003 by Barks ("Spring is Christ")
and Arberry ("All have eaten and
fallen asleep") Ghazal
2006 by Schimmel ("Where you put your foot on earth, my life") Ghazal
2037 by Star ("The Sweetness of All Things")
and Barks ("Underwater in the
Fountain") Ghazal
2061 by Barks ("Give yourself a kiss")
and Arberry ("Give yourself a kiss,
silvery-bodied idol") Ghazal
2083 by Barks ("If my words are not saying what You would
say")
and Arberry ("If my words were not
worthy of your lips") Ghazal
2110 by Arberry ("A cry went up from my tavern")
Barks ("A shout comes out of my room")
and Gamard ("A shout came forth from
my tavern {of mystical wine}") Ghazal
2131 by Khalili ("come inside the fire") Ghazal
2132 by Khalili ("whenever you meet someone deep drunk") Ghazal
2133 by Khalili ("wake up, wake up this night is gone") Ghazal
2144 by Khalili ("whatever happens to the world around") Ghazal
2154 by Khalili ("rocking and rolling, what have you been
drinking") Ghazal
2157 by Khalili ("rocks crack apart filled with passions") Ghazal
2162 by Khalili ("rebellious i feel again") Ghazal
2172 by Barks ("Totally conscious, and apropos of nothing, he
comes to see me")
and Helminski ("And He is With Us") Ghazal
2180 by Barks ("The Image of Your Body")
and Arberry ("From these depths depart
towards heaven") Ghazal
2195 by Arberry ("Sweetly parading you go")
Schimmel ("O Sky, don't revolve
without me!")
Star ("Don't Go Without Me")
and Barks ("In the Arc of Your Mallet") Ghazal
2214 by Schimmel ("Blessed time! When we are sitting, I and
thou")
Star ("Happy is the moment, when we
are together")
and Arberry ("Happy the moment which
we,
you and I, sit in the palace") Ghazal
2240 by Barks ("Solomon Ant") Ghazal
2251 by Schimmel ("When I seek peace, he is the kindly
intercessor") Ghazal
2266 by Barks ("Circulate the cup and take me out of who I
am")
and Arberry ("Saqi of the moonface,
circulate the cup") Ghazal
2280 by Barks ("Dissolver of Sugar")
and Arberry ("You who slay like sugar
the lovers") Ghazal
2293 by Chittick ("I keep on seeing a moon in my eyes outside
of my eyes")
and Arberry ("I am seeing a moon
outside the eye in the eye") Ghazal
2309 by Khalili ("you are drunk and i am intoxicated") Ghazal
2322 by Barks ("Friday")
Barks again ("Every day is Friday")
and Arberry ("Every day is a festival
and Friday for the poor") Ghazal
2331 by Chittick ("Oh formless Heart-ravisher!")
and Arberry ("O formless Beloved of
the pure form-fashioner") Ghazal
2345 by Barks ("Lets Go Home")
and Gamard ("Since it's evening and
{it's} raining, {let's go} home, home!") Ghazal
2381 by Khalili ("look at love how it tangles with the one
fallen in love") Ghazal
2422 by Helminski ("Rest your cheek, for a moment, on this
drunken cheek")
Barks ("Silver Coins")
and Arberry ("For a moment lay your
cheek on the cheek of this drunkard") Ghazal
2449 by Barks ("No Flag")
and Arberry ("Before this I sought a
purchaser for my discourse") Ghazal
2509 by Star ("By the Curl of My Hair")
and Arberry ("Today the king in secret
visited the madmen") Ghazal
2523 by Khalili ("my dear heart you're a fire worshiper")
and Arberry ("Fire-worshipping heart
of mine who spins like a ball in the fire") Ghazal
2537 by Helminski ("What A Man Can Say")
Barks ("Sometimes I Forget Completely")
and Arberry ("By the right of old
companionship and friendship") Ghazal
2622 by Schimmel ("Ho, master, what a bird are you?") Ghazal
2738 by Barks ("Burnt Kabob") Ghazal
2779 by Barks ("Has anyone seen the boy who used to come
here?")
and Arberry ("Proclaim, O crier, at
the head of every market") Ghazal
2805 by Barks ("Imagine the time the particle you are")
and Arberry ("What a joyous pleasure
it will be") Ghazal
2865 by Barks ("Be with those who help your being")
Abdulla ("Your eyes must complete
their course of Love")
and Arberry ("Gaze on the cheeks of
love that you may gain") Ghazal
2946 by Barks ("You Are As You Are")
and Arberry ("Yesterday you made
compact and repentance") Ghazal
2949 by Barks ("The Pleiades") Ghazal
2967 by Barks ("Its lucky to hear the flutes for dancing")
and Arberry ("Once again a melody has
come from the reed pipe of fortune") Ghazal
3003 by Chittick ("Would that you could know yourself for a
time!") Ghazal
3051 by Star ("Gone to the Unseen")
Arberry ("Finally you have broken away
and departed into the Unseen")
and Barks ("How did you get away?") Ghazal
3055 by Cowan ("Be mindful, you'll not know a friend like me")
Barks ("You won't find another friend
like me")
and Arberry ("Come, come, for you will
not find another friend like me") Ghazal
3071 by Barks ("The Snow-World Melts")
Star ("The Ashes of Union")
and Arberry ("Heart, you are the
phoenix of union") Ghazal
3090 by Arberry ("Leap, leap from the world, that you may be
king of the world")
and Barks ("Forget the world, and so
command the world") Ghazal
3210 by Khalili ("this time i must confess") Ghazal
3264 by Khalili ("if you can only reflect like a clean
mirror") Ghazal
3291 by Khalili ("if you can disentangle") Ghazal
3299 by Khalili ("don't be bitter my friend") Ghazal
3365 by Star ("Every Sweet Star is Mine")
