Poem #339
English Translation
Persian
When your visage wanders through my eye's own rose garden fair
my heart runs to the window frame to catch your glimmer there.
خیالِ رویِ تو چون بُگذَرَد به گلشنِ چَشم
دل از پِیِ نظر آید به سویِ روزنِ چَشم
No outlook suits the resting place your beauty should command
it's only me, this world, and this eye-corner where I stand.
سزایِ تکیه گَهَت مَنظَری نمی‌بینم
منم ز عالَم و این گوشهٔ مُعَیَّنِ چَشم
Come, that I may fling out rubies, pearls at your first tread
pulled from heart's own treasury to my eye's bright window spread.
بیا که لَعل و گُهَر در نثارِ مَقْدَمِ تو
ز گنج‌خانه دل می‌کشم به روزنِ چَشم
At dawn my streaming tears conspired to bring me low
had not my liver's blood clasped tight my eye's hem so.
سَحَر سِرِشکِ رَوانم سرِ خرابی داشت
گَرَم نه خونِ جگر می‌گرفت دامنِ چَشم
The very day I saw your face my heart confessed in dread
'Should harm befall, my blood be on the eye's own head.'
نخست روز که دیدم رخِ تو دل می‌گفت
اگر رسَد خلَلی خونِ من به گردنِ چَشم
All night until the dawn, upon the wind's swift path
I set my eye-lamp shining, drawn by news of union's bath.
به بویِ مژدهٔ وصلِ تو تا سَحَر شبِ دوش
به راهِ باد نهادم چراغِ روشنِ چَشم
For pity on this aching heart of Hafez, stay
the people-slaying arrow of your eye away.
به مردمی که دلِ دردمندِ حافظ را
مَزَن به ناوَکِ دلدوزِ مردم افکنِ چَشم
Cultural Context
US Interest Rank: 8/10. This poem contains beautiful imagery of the eye and heart. The verse about the heart coming 'in pursuit of glance to the window of the eye' when 'the image of your face passes to the rose-garden of the eye' is a striking image. The observation that Hafez pulls 'ruby and pearl from the treasure-house of the heart to the window of the eye' in scattering for 'the arrival' is a powerful statement. The poem's combination of imagery and emotional expression makes it very engaging.
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