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I swear, since seeing Your face,the whole world is fraud and fantasyThe garden is bewildered as to what is leafor blossom. The distracted birdscan't..

I see so deeply within myself.Not needing my eyes, I can see everything clearly.Why would I want to bother my eyes againNow that I see the world..

I have got out of my own control, I have fallen into unconsciousness; in my utterunconsciousness how joyful I am with myself!The darling sewed up my..

I have been tricked by flying too closeto what I thought I loved.Now the candleflame is out, the wine spilled,and the lovers have withdrawnsomewhere..

218I have a fire for you in my mouth, but I have a hundred sealson my tongue.The flames which I have in my heart would make one mouthful of both..

218I have a fire for you in my mouth, but I have a hundred sealson my tongue.The flames which I have in my heart would make one mouthful of both..

I closed my eyes to creation when I beheld his beauty, I becameintoxicated with his beauty and bestowed my soul.For the sake of Solomon’s seal I..

I am part of the loadNot rightly balancedI drop off in the grass,like the old Cave-sleepers, to browsewherever I fall.For hundreds of thousands of..

'I am only the house of your beloved,not the beloved herself:true love is for the treasure,not for the coffer that contains it.'The real beloved is..

I'm drenchedin the floodwhich has yet to comeI'm tied upin the prisonwhich has yet to existNot having playedthe game of chessI'm already the..

I am a sculptor, a molder of form.In every moment I shape an idol.But then, in front of you, I melt them downI can rouse a hundred formsand fill them..

How long will you think about this painful life?How long will you think about this harmful world?The only thing it can take from you is your..

All night, a man called ‘Allah'Until his lips were bleeding.Then the Devil said, ‘Hey! Mr Gullible!How comes you've been calling all nightAnd never..

I was dead, then alive.Weeping, then laughing.The power of love came into me,and I became fierce like a lion,then tender like the evening star.He..

You who are not kept anxiously awake for love's sake, sleep on.In restless search for that river, we hurry along;you whose heart such anxiety has not..

I don't needa companion who isnasty sad and sourthe one who islike a gravedark depressing and bittera sweetheart is a mirrora friend a delicious..

Every day I bear a burden, and I bear this calamity for a purpose:I bear the discomfort of cold and December's snow in hope of spring.Before the..

Come, come, awaken all true drunkards!Pour the wine that is Life itself!O cupbearer of the Eternal Wine,Draw it now from Eternity's Jar!This wine..

A lover asked his beloved,Do you love yourself morethan you love me?The beloved replied,I have died to myselfand I live for you.I've disappeared from..

Did I not say to you, “Go not there, for I am your friend; in thismirage of annihilation I am the fountain of life? ”Even though in anger you depart..

A true lover is proved such by his pain of heart;No sickness is there like sickness of heart.The lover's ailment is different from all ailments;Love..

The sky was litby the splendor of the moonSo powerfulI fell to the groundYour lovehas made me sureI am ready to forsakethis worldly lifeand..

Again I am raging,I am in such a state by your soul that everybond you bind, I break, by your soul.I am like heaven, like the moon, like a candle by..

Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.It doesn't matter.Ours is not a caravan of despair.Come, even if you have broken your vowa thousand timesCome..

216Bring wine, for I am suffering crop sickness from the vintage;God has seized me, and I am thus held fast.By love’s soul, bring me a cup of wine..