Love
Whoso hasheesh--the green sweet grain--
Translated by Edna Worthley Underwood (1917) · From Songs of Hafiz (1917)
Love
Whoso hasheesh--the green sweet grain--
Does eat, howe’er so small the part,
Sets thirty joyous nightingales
To making music in his heart.
An atom of the sweet green grain
Sets suns a-blaze in Sufi’s eyes,
And makes thy songs ecstatic strain
Like Simurgs--bird of Paradise.
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Hafiz. “Whoso hasheesh--the green sweet grain--.” Translated by Edna Worthley Underwood. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hafiz/114/.
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Hafiz. “Whoso hasheesh--the green sweet grain--.” Translated by Edna Worthley Underwood. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hafiz/114/.
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