Love
Devout be in the daylight and drink thy wine by night,
Translated by Edna Worthley Underwood (1917) · From Songs of Hafiz (1917)
Love
Devout be in the daylight and drink thy wine by night,
It dims by day the heart’s mirror and sets thereon a blight,
But when the veil of darkness has buried deep the sun,
From the wine cup’s Eastern ocean let thy Sun of Joy come!
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MLA
Hafiz. “Devout be in the daylight and drink thy wine by night.” Translated by Edna Worthley Underwood. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hafiz/127/.
Chicago
Hafiz. “Devout be in the daylight and drink thy wine by night.” Translated by Edna Worthley Underwood. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hafiz/127/.
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