From the Divan of Hafez · 7 couplets
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O you whose every form is pleasing and whose every place is lovely —
my heart is happy from the sweet, sugar-chewing coquetry of yours.
Like a fresh rose-petal is your being, delicate —
like the cypress of paradise's garden, head to foot, you are lovely.
Your manner and pride are sweet, your down and mole are charming,
your eye and brow are beautiful, your stature and height are lovely.
Both the garden of my imagination is full of your form and color,
and the sense of my heart is happy from your jasmine-shadowing tresses.
On the path of love, where there is no crossing from the flood of tribulation,
I have made my mind happy with the longing for you.
What shall I say in thanks for your eye? — that in that very sickness
it makes my pain pleasant, from your beautiful face.
In the desert of seeking, though from every side there is danger,
heartless Hafez goes happily by devotion to you.
ای همه شکلِ تو مَطبوع و همه جایِ تو خوش
دلم از عشوهٔ شیرینِ شِکرخایِ تو خوش
همچو گلبرگِ طَری هست وجودِ تو لطیف
همچو سروِ چمنِ خُلد سراپای تو خوش
شیوه و نازِ تو شیرین، خط و خالِ تو مَلیح
چشم و ابرویِ تو زیبا، قد و بالایِ تو خوش
هم گلستانِ خیالم ز تو پُر نقش و نگار
هم مَشامِ دلم از زلفِ سَمَن سایِ تو خوش
در رَهِ عشق که از سیلِ بلا نیست گذار
کردهام خاطرِ خود را به تمنایِ تو خوش
شُکرِ چشمِ تو چه گویم؟ که بِدان بیماری
میکُنَد دَردِ مرا از رخِ زیبایِ تو خوش
در بیابانِ طلب گر چه ز هر سو خطریست
میرود حافظِ بیدل به تَوَلّایِ تو خوش
Source: Ganjoor.net
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