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Persian poets and poems

Persian poetry joins lyric craft with philosophy, devotion, love, wit, and mystical paradox across many centuries and forms.

The readings here come through older English translations. Each poem retains its source note so the translation is visible rather than treated as the original voice without mediation.

2 poets59 poemsPublic-domain source editions

Poets in this collection

  1. HafizSufi · 41 poems
  2. Jalal al-Din RumiSufi · 18 poems

Selected poems

59 starting points, with featured poems first.

  1. Ode IHafiz · 23 lines
  2. Ode IIHafiz · 26 lines
  3. Ode VHafiz · 20 lines
  4. Ode VIHafiz · 52 lines
  5. Ode XIIHafiz · 18 lines
  6. Ode XIVHafiz · 16 lines
  7. Ode XVIHafiz · 26 lines
  8. Ode XVIIHafiz · 18 lines
  9. Rumi 01: “The song of the spheres in their revolutionsJalal al-Din Rumi · 8 lines
  10. Rumi 02: “Men incur the reproach of wine and drugsJalal al-Din Rumi · 4 lines
  11. Rumi 03: “Angel and brute man’s wondrous leaven compose;Jalal al-Din Rumi · 3 lines
  12. Rumi 04: “Do you know a name without a thing answering toJalal al-Din Rumi · 10 lines
  13. Rumi 05: “The man of God is made wise by the Truth,Jalal al-Din Rumi · 4 lines
  14. Rumi 06: “I have put duality away, I have seen that the tJalal al-Din Rumi · 5 lines
  15. Rumi 07: “Not-being and defect, wherever seen,Jalal al-Din Rumi · 6 lines
  16. Rumi 08: “Fools buy false coins because they are like theJalal al-Din Rumi · 13 lines
  17. Ode CIHafiz · 20 lines
  18. Ode CLIXHafiz · 20 lines
  19. Ode CLVHafiz · 18 lines
  20. Ode CLVIIHafiz · 26 lines
  21. Ode CLXVIHafiz · 18 lines
  22. Ode CLXXIIIHafiz · 16 lines
  23. Ode CLXXXHafiz · 156 lines
  24. Ode CXLIXHafiz · 4 lines
  25. Ode CXLVHafiz · 22 lines
  26. Ode CXLVIHafiz · 17 lines
  27. Ode CXVHafiz · 32 lines
  28. Ode CXXIXHafiz · 18 lines
  29. Ode CXXXIVHafiz · 18 lines
  30. Ode CXXXVHafiz · 16 lines
  31. Ode LIXHafiz · 26 lines
  32. Ode LXIIIHafiz · 16 lines
  33. Ode LXIXHafiz · 29 lines
  34. Ode LXXIHafiz · 29 lines
  35. Ode LXXVIIHafiz · 12 lines
  36. Ode LXXXVIHafiz · 6 lines
  37. Ode LXXXVIIHafiz · 16 lines
  38. Ode LXXXVIIIHafiz · 8 lines
  39. Ode XIXHafiz · 37 lines
  40. Ode XLIIHafiz · 4 lines
  41. Ode XLIIIHafiz · 20 lines
  42. Ode XLVHafiz · 12 lines
  43. Ode XXHafiz · 28 lines
  44. Ode XXIIHafiz · 24 lines
  45. Ode XXIIIHafiz · 20 lines
  46. Ode XXIXHafiz · 47 lines
  47. Ode XXVHafiz · 23 lines
  48. Ode XXXIHafiz · 22 lines
  49. Ode XXXVHafiz · 16 lines
  50. Rumi 09: “He comes, a moon whose like the sky ne’er saw, Jalal al-Din Rumi · 8 lines
  51. Rumi 10: “Whether it be of this world or of that,Jalal al-Din Rumi · 2 lines
  52. Rumi 11: “How long wilt thou cry, ‘O Allah’? Be quiet, foJalal al-Din Rumi · 12 lines
  53. Rumi 12: “This is Love: to fly heavenward,Jalal al-Din Rumi · 6 lines
  54. Rumi 13: “The motion of every atom is towards its origin;Jalal al-Din Rumi · 4 lines
  55. Rumi 14: “O my soul, I searched from end to end: I saw inJalal al-Din Rumi · 3 lines
  56. Rumi 15: “Every moment the robber Beauty rises in a diffeJalal al-Din Rumi · 31 lines
  57. Rumi 16: “Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God’s naJalal al-Din Rumi · 14 lines
  58. Rumi 17: “If there be any lover in the world, O Moslems, Jalal al-Din Rumi · 18 lines
  59. Rumi 18: “I died as mineral and became a plant,Jalal al-Din Rumi · 11 lines