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Shirazi Turk is a ghazal (love poem) by the 14th-century Persian poet, Hāfez of Shiraz. It has been described as "the most familiar of Hafez's poems in the English-speaking world". [ 1 ] It was the first poem of Hafez to appear in English , [ 2 ] when William Jones made his paraphrase "A Persian Song" in 1771, based on a Latin version supplied ...
Alā yā ayyoha-s-sāqī is a ghazal (love poem) by the 14th-century poet Hafez of Shiraz. It is the opening poem in the collection of Hafez's 530 poems. In this poem, Hafez calls for wine to soothe his difficulties in love. In a series of varied images he describes his feelings.
The Divān of Hafez (Persian: دیوان حافظ) is a collection of poems written by the Iranian poet Hafez. Most of these poems are in Persian, but there are some macaronic language poems (in Persian and Arabic) and a completely Arabic ghazal. The most important part of this Divān is the ghazals.
In an article comparing this poem with the better-known Shirazi Turk ode, Iraj Bashiri (1979) argues that both poems describe the five stages in the path of Love, in Sufic tradition: loss of heart (foqdān-e del), regret (ta'assof), ecstasy (wajd), loss of patience (bīsabrī), and the ardour of love (sabābat or loss of consciousness ...
Sālhā del talab-ē jām-e Jam az mā mīkard is a ghazal by the 14th-century Persian poet Hāfez of Shiraz.It is no. 142 [1] (but in the Ganjoor website, no. 143) in The Divān of Hafez by Muhammad Qazvini and Qasem Ghani (1941), and 136 in the edition of Parviz Natel-Khanlari (1983, 2nd ed.).
The poem Mazra'-ē sabz-e falak ("the Green Farmland of the Sky") is a ghazal (love song) by the 14th-century Persian poet Hafez of Shiraz.It has been called "the second most debated ghazal of Hafiz, the first being the Shirazi Turk". [1]
That the poets of Turkey and India copied Persian metres, not Arabic ones, is clear from the fact that, just as with Persian verse, the most commonly used metres of Arabic poetry (the ṭawīl, kāmil, wāfir and basīṭ) are avoided, while those metres used most frequently in Persian lyric poetry are exactly those most frequent in Turkish and ...
Torkān "Turks", in the language of Persian love poetry, is a metaphor frequently used for the beautiful youths who ravage the hearts of their lovers. (See Shirazi Turk.) Arberry quotes a verse of Saadi: "You carry off the heart of a city with a coquettish glance in just the same way as the slaves of the Banu Sa'd carried off the 'banquet of ...