Poems by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
I closed my eyes to creation
... misinformed. I must have been either a simpleton or drunk or mad that ...
I Have a Fire for You in my Mouth
... on my tongue. The flames which I have in my heart would make one mouth- ...
I have fallen into unconsciousness
... , through love of the king of the peris, hidden from self and creatures, I am as if peri-born myself ...
I will beguile him with the tongue
... whats hidden from him that I should beguile him with anything hidden ...
If I weep
... hen does the vine of my body become wine, when the wine-presser stamps on me and spurns me underfoot ...
Laila and the Khalifa.
... That one is really sleeping who hankers after each whim ...
Last night my soul cried O exalted sphere of Heaven
... ourself into the well, for you do not know how to make a bucket and a rope out of my withered stumps ...
Lord, what a Beloved is mine!
... gold. Water, you are prostrate, you are running on your head and ...
My mother was fortune, my father generosity and bounty
... Sorrow has died for joy in him of may God bind your consolation ...
The ravings which my enemy uttered I heard within my heart
... and jasmine. If I have hinted at the evil and good ofm y friends, I have spun ...
Weary not of us, for we are very beautiful
... ar the rest of from Shams the Pride of Tabiz for we did not take the end of the story from that king ...
When I am asleep and crumbling in the tomb
... You are for me the blast of the trumpet and the resurrection, ...
Book1 Prologue
... Each interprets my notes in harmony with his own feelings, ...
Only Breath
... am not an entity in this world or in the next, ...
Any Soul That Drank the Nectar
... Death came, smelled me, and sensed your fragrance instead ...
