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1794-1803

  • عاشقی زین هر دو حالت برتر است ** بی‌‌بهار و بی‌‌خزان سبز و تر است‌‌
  • Love is higher than these two states of feeling: without spring and without autumn it is (ever) green and fresh.

  • ده زکات روی خوب ای خوب رو ** شرح جان شرحه شرحه باز گو 1795
  • Pay the tithe on Thy fair face, O Beauteous One: relate the story of the soul that is rent in pieces,

  • کز کرشم غمزه‌‌ی غمازه‌‌ای ** بر دلم بنهاد داغی تازه‌‌ای‌‌
  • For by the coquetry of a glance One who is given to glancing amorously has branded my heart anew.

  • من حلالش کردم از خونم بریخت ** من همی‌‌گفتم حلال او می‌‌گریخت‌‌
  • I absolved Him if He shed my blood: I was saying, “It is lawful (I absolve Thee),” and He was fleeing (from me).

  • چون گریزانی ز ناله‌‌ی خاکیان ** غم چه ریزی بر دل غمناکیان‌‌
  • Since Thou art fleeing from the lament of those who are (as) dust, why pourest Thou sorrow on the hearts of the sorrowful?

  • ای که هر صبحی که از مشرق بتافت ** همچو چشمه‌‌ی مشرقت در جوش یافت‌‌
  • O Thou, whom every dawn that shone from the East found overflowing (with abundant grace) like the bright fountain (of the sun),

  • چون بهانه دادی این شیدات را ** ای بهانه شکر لبهات را 1800
  • How didst Thou give (nothing but) evasion to Thy frenzied lover, O Thou the sugar of whose lips hath no price?

  • ای جهان کهنه را تو جان نو ** از تن بی‌‌جان و دل افغان شنو
  • O Thou who art a new soul to the old world, hear the cry (that comes) from my body (which is) without soul and heart.

  • شرح گل بگذار از بهر خدا ** شرح بلبل گو که شد از گل جدا
  • Leave the tale of the Rose! For God's sake set forth the tale of the Nightingale that is parted from the Rose!

  • از غم و شادی نباشد جوش ما ** با خیال و وهم نبود هوش ما
  • Our emotion is not caused by grief and joy, our consciousness is not related to fancy and imagination.