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1565-1574

  • ای بدی که تو کنی در خشم و جنگ ** با طرب تر از سماع و بانگ چنگ‌‌ 1565
  • Oh, the ill thou doest in wrath and quarrel is more delightful than music and the sound of the harp.

  • ای جفای تو ز دولت خوبتر ** و انتقام تو ز جان محبوبتر
  • Oh, thy cruelty is better than felicity, and thy vengeance dearer than life.

  • نار تو این است نورت چون بود ** ماتم این تا خود که سورت چون بود
  • This is thy fire: how (what) must be thy light! This is (thy) mourning, so how (what) indeed must be thy festival!

  • از حلاوتها که دارد جور تو ** وز لطافت کس نیابد غور تو
  • In respect of the sweetnesses which thy cruelty hath, and in respect of thy beauty, no one gets to the bottom of thee.

  • نالم و ترسم که او باور کند ** وز کرم آن جور را کمتر کند
  • I complain, and (yet) I fear lest he believe me and from kindness make that cruelty less.

  • عاشقم بر قهر و بر لطفش به جد ** بو العجب من عاشق این هر دو ضد 1570
  • I am exceedingly enamoured of his violence and his gentleness: ’tis marvelous (that) I (am) in love with both these contraries.

  • و الله ار زین خار در بستان شوم ** همچو بلبل زین سبب نالان شوم‌‌
  • By God, if (I escape) from this thorn (of sorrow) and enter the garden (of joy), because of this I shall begin to moan like the nightingale.

  • این عجب بلبل که بگشاید دهان ** تا خورد او خار را با گلستان‌‌
  • This is a wondrous nightingale that opens his mouth to eat thorns and roses together.

  • این چه بلبل این نهنگ آتشی است ** جمله ناخوشها ز عشق او را خوشی است‌‌
  • What nightingale is this? (Nay), ’tis a fiery monster: because of (his) love all unsweet things are sweetness to him.

  • عاشق کل است و خود کل است او ** عاشق خویش است و عشق خویش جو
  • He is a lover of the Universal, and he himself is the Universal: he is in love with himself and seeking his own love.”’”

  • صفت اجنحه‌‌ی طیور عقول الهی‌‌
  • Description of the wings of the birds that are Divine Intelligences.