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Persian Poets

Part of Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series

Edited by Peter Washington
Hardcover
$14.95 US
Knopf | Everyman's Library
On sale Nov 14, 2000 | 256 Pages | 978-0-375-41126-7
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The Middle Ages saw an extraordinary flowering of Persian poetry. Though translations began appearing in Europe in the nineteenth century, these remarkable poets--Omar Khayyam, Rumi, Saadi, Sanai, Attar, Hafiz, and Jami--are still being discovered in the West.

The great medieval Persian poets owe much to the mystical Sufi tradition within Islam, which understands life as a journey in search of enlightenment, and, like their European contemporaries, they combine religious and secular themes. While celebrating the beauty of the world in poems about love, wine, and poetry itself, or telling humorous anecdotes of everyday life, they use these subjects to symbolize deeper concerns with wisdom, mortality, salvation, and the quest for God.
Foreword

OMAR
The Ruba’iyat

SANAI
The Blind Men and the Elephant
From TheWalled Garden of Truth
The Wild Rose of Praise
EnergeticWork
Earthworm Guidance
The Puzzle
The Time Needed

ATTAR
Listening to the Reed Flute
Street-Sweeper
Looking for Your Own Face
From Bird Parliament

RUMI
Who SaysWords with My Mouth?
A Community of the Spirit
The Reed Flute’s Song
Sanai
A Just-Finishing Candle
Only Breath
Quatrains (‘Today, like every other . . .’)
The Shape of My Tongue
Quatrains (‘The Friend comes . . .’)
Tending Two Shops
Constant Conversation
Bonfire at Midnight
Quatrains (‘When I am with you . . .’)
Someone Digging in the Ground
Who Makes These Changes?
Chickpea to Cook
The Mouse and the Camel
Quatrains (‘A craftsman pulled . . .’)
New Moon, Hilal
The Bird of My Heart
Die Now
So Drunk am I
Aiming at Brotherhood
The Assembly is Like a Lamp
Talking in the Night
Talking through the Door
The Parrot of Bagdad
Remembered Music
The True Sufi
Reality and Appearance
The Unseen Power
Quatrains (‘Time bringeth . . .’)
He Comes

SAADI
Compassion
Beneficence
Guardians
Jesus and the Sinner
I Heard of a Man
A Certain Man
They Put a Crow in the Cage
I Asked a Scholar
From The Bostan: The Story of the Dervish and a Fox
—In Connection with Humility
—A Story in this Connection
—An Account of a Pious Person’s Humility

HAFEZ
Wine
The Ocean of Love
A Persian Song
The Lesson of the Flowers
Lawful Wine
Swimming
Strife
The Beloved
Revelation
Wild Deer
The Bird of Gardens
Sleep on Thine Eyes
Where is My Ruined Life?
The Nightingale
Return
My Friend Has Fled
Oh,Weep No More
The Breath of Dawn
Absence
The Jewel
The Dream
Forget Not
The Vale of Silence
The Garden
The Gifts
The Days of Spring
Tidings of Union
Ghazal 10
Ghazal 27
Ghazal 29
Ghazal 35
Ghazal 36
Ghazal 49
Ode 44
Ode 105
Ode 147
Ode 173
Ode 487

JAMI
Morning Air
From Salámán and Absál: Preliminary Invocation
The Simple Arab
The Birth of Salámán
Absál Tempts Salámán
The Lovers Flee
The Burning of Absál

Biographies of Poets
Acknowledgements
"The True Sufi"
by Rumi (translated by R. A. Nicholson)


What makes the Sufi? Purity of heart;
Not the patched mantle and the lust perverse
Of those vile earth-bound men who steal his name.
He in all dregs discerns the essence pure:
In hardship ease, in tribulation joy.
The phantom sentries, who with batons drawn
Guard Beauty's palace-gate and curtained bower,
Give way before him, unafraid he passes,
And showing the King's arrow, enters in.

"Where Is My Ruined Life?"
By Hafiz (translated by Gertrude Bell)


Where is my ruined life, and where the fame
    Of noble deeds?
Look on my long-drawn road, and whence it came,
    And where it leads!
Can drunkenness be linked to piety
    And good repute?
Where is the preacher's holy monody,
    Where is the lute?
From monkish cell and lying garb released,
    Oh heart of mine,
Where is the Tavern fane, the Tavern priest,
    Where is the wine?
Past days of meeting, let the memory
    Of you be sweet!
Where are those glances fled, and where for me
    Reproaches meet?
His friend's bright face warms not the enemy
    When love is done-
Where is the extinguished lamp that made night day
    Where is the sun?
Balm to mine eyes the dust, my head I bow
    Upon thy stair.
Where shall I go, where from thy presence? Thou
    Art everywhere.
Look not upon the dimple of her chin,
    Danger lurks there!
Where wilt thou hide, oh trembling heart, fleeing, in
    Such mad haste--where?
To steadfastness and patience, friend, ask not
    If Hafiz keep--
Patience and steadfastness I have forgot,
    And where is sleep?
Copyright © 2000 by edited by Peter Washington. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

About

The Middle Ages saw an extraordinary flowering of Persian poetry. Though translations began appearing in Europe in the nineteenth century, these remarkable poets--Omar Khayyam, Rumi, Saadi, Sanai, Attar, Hafiz, and Jami--are still being discovered in the West.

The great medieval Persian poets owe much to the mystical Sufi tradition within Islam, which understands life as a journey in search of enlightenment, and, like their European contemporaries, they combine religious and secular themes. While celebrating the beauty of the world in poems about love, wine, and poetry itself, or telling humorous anecdotes of everyday life, they use these subjects to symbolize deeper concerns with wisdom, mortality, salvation, and the quest for God.

Table of Contents

Foreword

OMAR
The Ruba’iyat

SANAI
The Blind Men and the Elephant
From TheWalled Garden of Truth
The Wild Rose of Praise
EnergeticWork
Earthworm Guidance
The Puzzle
The Time Needed

ATTAR
Listening to the Reed Flute
Street-Sweeper
Looking for Your Own Face
From Bird Parliament

RUMI
Who SaysWords with My Mouth?
A Community of the Spirit
The Reed Flute’s Song
Sanai
A Just-Finishing Candle
Only Breath
Quatrains (‘Today, like every other . . .’)
The Shape of My Tongue
Quatrains (‘The Friend comes . . .’)
Tending Two Shops
Constant Conversation
Bonfire at Midnight
Quatrains (‘When I am with you . . .’)
Someone Digging in the Ground
Who Makes These Changes?
Chickpea to Cook
The Mouse and the Camel
Quatrains (‘A craftsman pulled . . .’)
New Moon, Hilal
The Bird of My Heart
Die Now
So Drunk am I
Aiming at Brotherhood
The Assembly is Like a Lamp
Talking in the Night
Talking through the Door
The Parrot of Bagdad
Remembered Music
The True Sufi
Reality and Appearance
The Unseen Power
Quatrains (‘Time bringeth . . .’)
He Comes

SAADI
Compassion
Beneficence
Guardians
Jesus and the Sinner
I Heard of a Man
A Certain Man
They Put a Crow in the Cage
I Asked a Scholar
From The Bostan: The Story of the Dervish and a Fox
—In Connection with Humility
—A Story in this Connection
—An Account of a Pious Person’s Humility

HAFEZ
Wine
The Ocean of Love
A Persian Song
The Lesson of the Flowers
Lawful Wine
Swimming
Strife
The Beloved
Revelation
Wild Deer
The Bird of Gardens
Sleep on Thine Eyes
Where is My Ruined Life?
The Nightingale
Return
My Friend Has Fled
Oh,Weep No More
The Breath of Dawn
Absence
The Jewel
The Dream
Forget Not
The Vale of Silence
The Garden
The Gifts
The Days of Spring
Tidings of Union
Ghazal 10
Ghazal 27
Ghazal 29
Ghazal 35
Ghazal 36
Ghazal 49
Ode 44
Ode 105
Ode 147
Ode 173
Ode 487

JAMI
Morning Air
From Salámán and Absál: Preliminary Invocation
The Simple Arab
The Birth of Salámán
Absál Tempts Salámán
The Lovers Flee
The Burning of Absál

Biographies of Poets
Acknowledgements

Excerpt

"The True Sufi"
by Rumi (translated by R. A. Nicholson)


What makes the Sufi? Purity of heart;
Not the patched mantle and the lust perverse
Of those vile earth-bound men who steal his name.
He in all dregs discerns the essence pure:
In hardship ease, in tribulation joy.
The phantom sentries, who with batons drawn
Guard Beauty's palace-gate and curtained bower,
Give way before him, unafraid he passes,
And showing the King's arrow, enters in.

"Where Is My Ruined Life?"
By Hafiz (translated by Gertrude Bell)


Where is my ruined life, and where the fame
    Of noble deeds?
Look on my long-drawn road, and whence it came,
    And where it leads!
Can drunkenness be linked to piety
    And good repute?
Where is the preacher's holy monody,
    Where is the lute?
From monkish cell and lying garb released,
    Oh heart of mine,
Where is the Tavern fane, the Tavern priest,
    Where is the wine?
Past days of meeting, let the memory
    Of you be sweet!
Where are those glances fled, and where for me
    Reproaches meet?
His friend's bright face warms not the enemy
    When love is done-
Where is the extinguished lamp that made night day
    Where is the sun?
Balm to mine eyes the dust, my head I bow
    Upon thy stair.
Where shall I go, where from thy presence? Thou
    Art everywhere.
Look not upon the dimple of her chin,
    Danger lurks there!
Where wilt thou hide, oh trembling heart, fleeing, in
    Such mad haste--where?
To steadfastness and patience, friend, ask not
    If Hafiz keep--
Patience and steadfastness I have forgot,
    And where is sleep?
Copyright © 2000 by edited by Peter Washington. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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    978-0-375-41419-0
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    Poems of the Sea
    978-0-375-41329-2
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    Love Speaks Its Name
    Gay and Lesbian Love Poems
    978-0-375-41170-0
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    978-0-375-41177-9
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    Poems About Birds
    978-0-375-40749-9
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    978-0-375-40789-5
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    Langston Hughes
    978-0-375-40551-8
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    978-0-375-40552-5
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    Sylvia Plath
    978-0-375-40464-1
    $18.00 US
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    Oct 13, 1998
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    T. S. Eliot
    978-0-375-40185-5
    $15.95 US
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    The Roman Poets
    978-0-375-40071-1
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    Coleridge: Poems
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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    978-0-375-40072-8
    $15.95 US
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    Frost: Poems
    Edited by John Hollander
    Robert Frost
    978-0-679-45514-1
    $18.00 US
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    Jun 24, 1997
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    978-0-679-45515-8
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    Apr 29, 1997
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    Love Songs and Sonnets
    978-0-679-45465-6
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    Jan 28, 1997
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    Aziz Isa Elkun
    978-1-101-90834-1
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    978-0-593-53552-3
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    978-0-593-53553-0
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    No Place Like Home
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    978-0-593-32129-4
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    978-0-593-32020-4
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    Eugenio Montale
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    Stephen Sondheim
    978-1-101-90816-7
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    Alexander Pope
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    James Merrill
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    Andrew Marvell
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    C.P. Cavafy
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    James Joyce
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    Willa Cather
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    Mar 26, 2013
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    Edna St. Vincent Millay
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    Mar 02, 2010
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    Rudyard Kipling
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    Edwin Arlington Robinson
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    Feb 06, 2007
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    Robert Burns
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    Anna Akhmatova
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    May 16, 2006
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Apr 08, 2003
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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning
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    Jan 14, 2003
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    Aug 13, 2002
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    Apr 30, 2002
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    Oct 30, 2001
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    May 15, 2001
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    From Dante to the Present
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    Mar 27, 2001
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    Poems About Birds
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    Mar 28, 2000
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    Oct 26, 1999
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    Langston Hughes
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    Mar 23, 1999
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    Mar 23, 1999
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    Sylvia Plath
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    Oct 13, 1998
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    T. S. Eliot
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    May 26, 1998
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    Nov 11, 1997
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    Introduction by John Beer
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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    Nov 11, 1997
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    Robert Frost
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    Jun 24, 1997
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    Apr 29, 1997
  • Love Songs and Sonnets
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    Everyman's Library
    Jan 28, 1997
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