Love
From Hafiz
From Quatrains and Translations
Love
I said to heaven that glowed above,
O hide yon sun-filled zone,
Hide all the stars you boast;
For, in the world of love
And estimation true,
The heaped-up harvest of the moon
Is worth one barley-corn at most,
The Pleiads' sheaf but two.
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Codex Note
Translated by Emerson from Hafiz
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “From Hafiz.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/emerson/210/.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “From Hafiz.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/emerson/210/.
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