Ghazal 460 (غزل ۴۶۰) · Divan of Hafez
سُلَیمیٰ مُنذُ حَلَّت بِالْعراقِ
solaymā monzo ḥallat be-l-ʿerāqi
olāqī min navāhā mā olāqī
alā ey sārvān-e manzel-e dūst
elā rokbānekom ṭāla shtiyāqī
kherad dar zende-rūd andāz o mey nūsh
be-golbāng-e javānān-e ʿerāqī
rabīʿu l-ʿomri fī marʿā ḥemākom
ḥamāka llāhu yā ʿahda t-talāqī
biyā sāqī bedeh raṭl-e gerānam
saqāka llāhu min kaʾsin dehāqī
javānī bāz mī-ārad be-yādam
samāʿ-e chang-o dast-afshān-e sāqī
mey-e bāqī bedeh tā mast-o khoshdel
be-yārān barfeshānam ʿomr-e bāqī
darūnam khūn shod az nādīdan-e dūst
alā taʿsan le-ayyāmi l-ferāqi
domūʿī baʿdakom lā taḥqerūhā
fa-kam baḥrin ʿamīqin min savāqī
damī bā nīkkhāhān mottafeq bāsh
ghanīmat dān omūr-e ettefāqī
besāz ey moṭreb-e khoshkhān-e khoshgū
be-sheʿr-e fārsī ṣowt-e ʿerāqī
ʿarūsī bas khoshī ey dokhtar-e raz
valī gah gah sazāvār-e ṭalāqī
masīḥā-ye mojarrad rā berāzad
ke bā khorshīd sāzad ham-voṣāqī
veṣāl-e dūstān rūzī-ye mā nīst
bekhān Ḥāfeẓ ghazalhā-ye ferāqī
The Persian verses are from the Divan of Hafez of Shiraz, drawn from the public-domain ganjoor archive, and presented unchanged. The transliteration is model-assisted and awaiting review by a Persian-literate reader — if you spot a slip, we’d love to hear.
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