By Dick Davis
Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new lifestyles into the undying works of 3 masters of 14th-century Persian literature
Together, Hafez, a massive of global literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist, symbolize probably the most striking literary flowerings of any period. All 3 lived within the famed urban of Shiraz, a provincial capital of south-central Iran, and all 3 drew help from arts-loving rulers in the course of a time greater recognized for its violence than its inventive brilliance. right here Dick Davis, an award-winning poet extensively thought of “our best translator of Persian poetry” (The instances Literary Supplement), provides a various number of the very best poems through those world-renowned authors and indicates us the religious and secular elements of affection, in types embracing each point of the human heart.
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Why, and for the way lengthy? Drink wine, considering that sorrow in a smart man’s center is incorrect. Our serving boy’s younger face is prepared for its beard – What tearful faces there'll be, as soon as it’s seemed! And if that boy should still serve me now, it's a signal Hafez’s cloak and prayer-mat were offered for wine. excellent news, MY center! THE BREATH OF CHRIST IS WAFTING right here; Its sweetness brings the odor of 1 who’ll quickly look. Don’t cry and pray for exile’s sake; final evening I forged Our fortune, and a solution for your prayers attracts close to; not just I celebrate inside of this valley’s hearth – Moses, in hopes of borrowed embers, wanders the following. there is not any person who has no company on your road And all are drawn right here via the hopes that they carry expensive – No guy can understand the place his Belovèd now is living, yet nonetheless the bell that summons him earrings loud and transparent; And if a pal may still ask how one grief-stricken fares, Say, “Well! He’s respiring nonetheless – he’s no longer but on his bier. ” yet ask this garden’s nightingale for information, in view that cries Of longing from inside of a cage are all I listen. My pals, the good friend is hurting Hafez’s terrible middle; A falcon hunts a fly, or so it'll look! MY LOVE HAS despatched NO LETTER FOR decades now – I’ve heard No salutations from him, no Inquiries, now not one be aware; I’ve written him 100 occasions, yet that hard-riding king Has despatched no emissary again, No message, now not a specific thing! I’m wild with ready, loopy, yet He’s despatched no envoy right here – No strutting partridge has became up, No swish, skittish deer. He is familiar with my middle needs to now be like A fluttering chook, yet he Has but to ship one sinuous line To entice and seize me. rattling him, that sweet-lipped serving boy understands rather well that I desire wine now, yet he pours me none, even supposing my glass is dry. How a lot I boasted of his favors, The kindnesses we’d proportion – And now I’ve no thought in any respect of ways he's, or the place. yet this is often no shock, Hafez; Calm your self, and behave! A king can’t be anticipated to Write letters to a slave. sturdy WINE, THAT DOESN’T STUPEFY, That’s served by way of anyone beautiful – who one of the clever males of this international Escapes the snares set by way of those ? It’s real, I’m dissolute, in love, referred to as a shiftless miscreant… 1000 thank you, then, that this city presents buddies who're blameless. for those who should still step within our wine-shop, glance in your manners whereas you’re there – the group that hangs round its door Are the king’s cronies, so take care! Cruelty isn't the approach of pilgrims, negative males who search their journey’s finish; carry wine! those “pilgrims” listed below are going Nowhere, for all that they fake. yet don’t despise the beggars misplaced In hopeless love, don’t placed them down – They’re kings, although this one has no scepter, Monarchs, even though that one has no crown. Don’t mar your loveliness, don’t allow the distinction of your allure be shattered – You’ll locate your servants and your slaves And your whole retinue have scattered. i'm the slave of these who drink lifestyles to the dregs, yet now not of these Who disguise a blackened middle underneath The showy beauty in their outfits.