Ghazal 471 (غزل ۴۷۱) · Divan of Hafez
ز دلبرم که رساند نوازش قلمی
ze delbaram ke rasānad navāzesh-e qalamī
kojā-st peyk-e ṣabā gar hamī konad karamī
qiyās kardam o tadbīr-e ʿaql dar rah-e ʿeshq
cho shabnamī-st ke bar baḥr mī-keshad raqamī
biyā ke kherqe-ye man garche rahn-e meykade-hā-st
ze māl-e vaqf nabīnī be nām-e man deramī
ḥadīs-e chon o cherā dard-e sar dahad ey del
piyāle gīr o biyāsā ze ʿomr-e khvīsh damī
ṭabīb-e rāhneshīn dard-e ʿeshq nashnāsad
borow be dast kon ey morde-del Masīḥ-damī
delam gereft ze sālūs o ṭabl-e zīr-e gelīm
be ān ke bar dar-e meykāne barkasham ʿalamī
biyā ke vaqtshenāsān do kown beforūshand
be yek piyāle mey-e ṣāf o ṣoḥbat-e ṣanamī
davām-e ʿeysh o tanaʿʿom na shīve-ye ʿeshq ast
agar moʿāsher-e māʾī benūsh nīsh-e ghamī
namī-konam gele-ī līk abr-e raḥmat-e dūst
be keshtezār-e jegartashnegān nadād namī
cherā be yek ney-e qandash namī-kharand ān kas
ke kard ṣad shekarafshānī az ney-e qalamī
sazā-ye qadr-e to shāhā be dast-e Ḥāfeẓ nīst
joz az doʿā-ye shabī o niyāz-e ṣobḥdamī
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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