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SONNETS FROM HAFEZ
 
& other verses
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BY
ELIZABETH BRIDGES
HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON    EDINBURGH    GLASGOW    COPENHAGEN
NEW YORK    TORONTO    MELBOURNE    CAPE TOWN
BOMBAY    CALCUTTA    MADRAS    SHANGHAI    PEKING
1921
PRINTED IN ENGLAND
AT THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
BY FREDERICK HALL
NOTE
The last fifteen pieces in this book, which are foundedon odes of Hafez, are not translations. Their aim is ratherto convey if possible something of the original spirit thanto give a faithful rendering of either thought or form;& I have not scrupled to omit, insert, alter or evendeliberately to pervert the idea as fancy or feeling dictated.Some of the poems follow the Persian fairly closely(especially nos. 30, 31, 34, & 35); others are merely foundedon or suggested by one or two couplets.
No. 4 was suggested by a Persian dialect quatrain byBaba Tahir.
The remainder are original.
E. B.
Chilswell,
Sept. 1920.
TO
A. A. D.
1
When sunlight faileth,
& day’s glow is gone;
When chill mist traileth
Where warm splendour shone;
When summer’s pleasure
Dieth,—dieth too
The transient treasure
That with life up-grew
& none may herit,
Where then wilt thou turn,
O vagrant spirit,
That no home didst earn;
When none replieth
Of thy friends so true,
When sweet Joy crieth
‘Adieu, love, adieu!’
2
I called to fading day
As o’er the hill she flew,
‘Whither, glad light, away?
Take me, O take me too!’
She said, ‘O wingless one,
Thou hast thy memoried sun’.
I said to the droop’d rose
Awhile that was so fair,
‘Why dost so swiftly lose,
Sweet grace, thy blooming air?’
She said, ‘This is my doom;
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