Love
Thy Cheek, Like Limpid Water
Translated by E. J. W. Gibb (1882) · From Ottoman Poems (1882)
Thy cheek, like limpid water, clear doth gleam;
Thy pouting mouth a bubble round doth seem.
The radiance of thy cheek's sun on the heart
Like moonlight on the water's face doth beam.
The heart's page, through the tracings of thy down,
A volume all illumined one would deem.
That fair Moon's sunny love the earth have burned.
It warm as rays of summer sun doth stream.
At woeful sorrow's feast my blood-shot eyes,
Two beakers of red wine would one esteem.
Bâqî, her mole dark-hued like ambergris,
A fragrant musk-pod all the world would deem.
Codex Note
Gazel.
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Bâqî. “Thy Cheek, Like Limpid Water.” Translated by E. J. W. Gibb. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/baqi/5/.
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Bâqî. “Thy Cheek, Like Limpid Water.” Translated by E. J. W. Gibb. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/baqi/5/.
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