Poetry Codex

Arabic & Persian

Jalal al-Din Rumi

1207–1273

Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207–1273) was a Persian Sufi poet, born at Balkh, who settled at Konya in Anatolia, where he taught and wrote for the rest of his life. After he met the wandering dervish Shams of Tabriz, his devotion poured out in lyric odes (ghazals) addressed to his master and, through him, to God, and the collection is named the Divan of Shams of Tabriz.

The English versions here are R. A. Nicholson’s translations of forty-eight odes from the Divan, published at Cambridge in 1898. Nicholson printed the Persian beside his English; only the English is given here.

Major Works (2)

  1. The Masnavi (abridged), Books I–VI — translated by E. H. Whinfield (abridged; 1898)
  2. The Mesnevi, Book the First — translated by James W. Redhouse (1881)

Poems (99)

  1. Ode I
  2. Ode II
  3. Ode III
  4. Ode IV
  5. Ode V
  6. Ode VI
  7. Ode VII
  8. Ode VIII
  9. Ode IX
  10. Ode X
  11. Ode XI
  12. Ode XII
  13. Ode XIII
  14. Ode XIV
  15. Ode XV
  16. Ode XVI
  17. Ode XVII
  18. Ode XVIII
  19. Ode XIX
  20. Ode XX
  21. Ode XXI
  22. Ode XXII
  23. Ode XXIII
  24. Ode XXIV
  25. Ode XXV
  26. Ode XXVI
  27. Ode XXVII
  28. Ode XXVIII
  29. Ode XXIX
  30. Ode XXX
  31. Ode XXXI
  32. Ode XXXII
  33. Ode XXXIII
  34. Ode XXXIV
  35. Ode XXXV
  36. Ode XXXVI
  37. Ode XXXVII
  38. Ode XXXVIII
  39. Ode XXXIX
  40. Ode XL
  41. Ode XLI
  42. Ode XLII
  43. Ode XLIII
  44. Ode XLIV
  45. Ode XLV
  46. Ode XLVI
  47. Ode XLVII
  48. Ode XLVIII
  49. Light
  50. Death and Life
  51. Invocation
  52. Faith
  53. Dawn
  54. Allah Hu!
  55. Spring
  56. Spring's Festival
  57. Dependence
  58. Mystical Union
  59. Identity
  60. Confession
  61. Discordia Concors
  62. Renovation
  63. Revolving in Mystic Dance
  64. The Soul in All
  65. Responsibility
  66. Action
  67. Bondage
  68. Love's Freedom
  69. In My Heart
  70. Not Deaf to Love
  71. Assimilation
  72. Cleanliness
  73. Where is He?
  74. Love's Slavery
  75. Psyche in Tears
  76. Substitutional
  77. God's Throne
  78. The Lion of God
  79. Self-Realisation
  80. Thy Hand!
  81. The Priests
  82. The Pilgrims
  83. Many Faiths, One Lord
  84. Love Absolute
  85. Renunciation
  86. All Fulness
  87. Friendship
  88. The Friend Supreme
  89. Immortality
  90. The First and Last
  91. Mystic Love Dance
  92. Dream Fear
  93. The Cry of Love
  94. Night Thought
  95. Up out of Night
  96. All One
  97. O Wake in Me
  98. Jeláleddín
  99. To Heaven Approached a Sufi Saint

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