Love
Dust upon my sweetheart’s threshold
Translated by Edna Worthley Underwood (1917) · From Songs of Hafiz (1917)
Love
Dust upon my sweetheart’s threshold
To me brighter glows by far,
Than the gold-embroidered carpets
Where the sultan’s favorites are.
If the wind but bears the dust by
Whereon her foot’s paused to rest,
Sweeter ’tis than pinks or violets
Or the oil from roses pressed.
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Hafiz. “Dust upon my sweetheart’s threshold.” Translated by Edna Worthley Underwood. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hafiz/120/.
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Hafiz. “Dust upon my sweetheart’s threshold.” Translated by Edna Worthley Underwood. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hafiz/120/.
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