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Rubaiyats


33 by Helminski ("In comfort and abundance the Friend raised me")

36 by Helminski ("When I am with you our loving")

42 by Helminski ("I have no companion but Love")

51 by Helminski ("I dreamed of the most exquisite Cupbearer")

55 by Helminski, ("The lover is forever like a drunkard")
                  Barks ("Let the Lover be disgraceful, crazy")
                  and Star ("The lover is ever drunk with love")

57 by Helminski ("Love is the path and direction of our Prophet")

62 by Helminski ("If you desire the self, get out of the self")

67 by Helminski ("At times I would say I had self-control")

388 by Helminski ("I said, My heart wants a kiss from You")

403 by Helminski ("To us a different language has been given")

413 by Houshmand ("Reason came forward to lecture the lovers;")

438 by Barks ("A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,")

413 by Helminski ("To us a different language has been given")

491 by Helminski ("Whoever sees you and doesn’t smile")

494 by Helminski ("Someone who received")

511 by Helminski ("With the Beloved’s life-giving waters")
                  Barks ("The clear bead at the center changes everything")
                  and Star ("His sweet water cleansed my soul")

549 by Helminski ("O pure people who wander the world")

556 by Helminski ("O daylight break, so particles may resound")

558 by Helminski ("Love, they think You are both angelic and human")

561 by Helminski ("O tribe, more beautiful than moonlight")

569 by Helminski ("The way the Beloved can fit in my heart")
                  Barks ("The moment this love came to rest in me,")
                  and Star ("O how the Beloved fits into my heart;")

616 by Houshmand ("When your love began to fill up my heart")

666 by Helminski ("Whoever gets caught in Your curls")

667 by Helminski ("Whoever has a particle of heart in her breast")

670 by Helminski ("I am in love with You")

674 by Helminski ("In love there is no low or high point")

682 by Helminski ("Whoever witnessed existence in pure meaning")

686 by Helminski ("The dervish who offers the secrets of the universe")

803 by Houshmand ("The messenger brings sad news")

942 by Houshmand ("Last night I spent with a goddess who dabbles with slaves like me;")

1019 by Houshmand ("The names I gave her: wine; sometimes the cup;")

1078 by Helminski ("Have the aspiration of a falcon")

1082 by Helminski ("I spent some time around people")

1088 by Helminski ("The secrets of the truth won’t be revealed")

1091 by Helminski ("In this world are so many filled with spirit like Jesus")

1092 by Helminski ("I have a self which is stubborn, drunken")

1129 by Helminski ("He wishes me to get out of myself")

1131 by Helminski ("I always see the remedy in pain")

1133 by Helminski ("I desire fire from Your burning sorrow")

1138 by Helminski ("I could reach great heights with Your love")

1139 by Houshmand ("Sadness to me is the happiest time,")

1166 by Chittick ("Thy face made me a continual rosegarden")

1167 by Houshmand ("You think that I am at my own command?")

1228 by Helminski ("My turban, my robe, and my head")

1229 by Helminski ("Curse at me. I am drunken with Your curses")

1233 by Helminski ("Last night my Beloved was giving me pleasure")

1238 by Helminski ("I am mad, but they repeatedly ask my advice")

1241 by Helminski ("You left and I cried tears of blood")

1242 by Helminski ("During the day I praised You and I didn’t know")

1243 by Helminski ("One day drinking wine in Your tavern of ruin")

1246 by Helminski ("The moment I first heard of love")

1247 by Helminski ("You were an ascetic")

1331 by Houshmand ("We are drunk on the essence without even tasting the wine,")

1346 by Houshmand ("Show your face - we long to paint your image")

1603 by Houshmand ("Grant him a cruel and faithless lover, Lord")

1612 by Houshmand ("It is trasure buried in earth, concealed;")

1616 by Helminski ("We are puppets in the hands of God")

1675 by Houshmand ("Drunk, I asked my teacher, 'Please, I need to know")

1716 by Houshmand ("Until you made me sing, I was a monk.")

1905 by Houshmand ("I'm not me, you're not you, and you're not me;")




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