Tag: Rumi

Rumi: Ghazal 1374

Rumi: Ghazal 1374 O lovers, O lovers, hear me, I have the power to transmute mere earth into precious jewels. O minstrels, O minstrels, I shall fill your tambourines with gold. O those parched for life’s elixir, today I take the role of the cupbearer, turning this barren earth into a paradise, immersing it in […]

Rumi: Ghazal 1334

What a miracle: we are in the fall, and the sun has entered the sign of Aries. My blood begins to boil in the flow of my body like a camel going wild and setting my being in motion.   Watch the play of these waves of blood! See how the plains fill with Majnuns! […]

The Song of the Reed Flute by Rumi [In Verse Translation]

The Masnavi, also known as Mathnawi, is a remarkable literary work crafted by the renowned Persian poet and mystic, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi, more commonly known as Rumi. Comprising of an astounding 26,000 couplets divided into six volumes, this magnum opus stands as one of the most significant contributions to Persian mystical literature and Iranian […]

Anthology of Persian Poetry

Anthology of Persian Poetry covers a wide range of poems from different poets of diffrenet ages Persia. All poems have been translated by Ali Salami unless stated otherwise. Persian poets such as Ferdowsi, Saadi, Hafiz, Attar, Nezami, Rumi and Omar Khayyam are also known in the West and have influenced the literature of many countries. Selected Persian Poems Knowledge is truly thy source of […]