She took my heart

دل از من برد و روی از من نهان کرد

She took my heart and hid her face from me;

خدا را با که این بازی توان کرد

for God's sake, with whom can one play such a game?

شب تنهاییم در قصد جان بود

The night of my loneliness was out for my life;

خیالش لطف‌های بی‌کران کرد

her image showed me boundless kindnesses.

چرا چون لاله خونین دل نباشم؟

Why should I not be bleeding-hearted like the tulip,

که با ما نرگس او سر گران کرد

when her narcissus eye turned haughtily from us?

که را گویم که با این درد جان‌سوز

To whom can I say that, with this soul-burning pain,

طبیبم قصد جان ناتوان کرد؟

my physician has designs on my feeble life?

بدانسان سوخت چون شمعم که بر من

I burned like a candle in such a way that over me

صراحی گریه و بربط فغان کرد

the flask wept and the lute cried out.

صبا گر چاره داری وقت وقت است

O breeze, if you have a remedy, now is the time,

که درد اشتیاقم قصد جان کرد

for the pain of longing has designs on my life.

میان مهربانان کی توان گفت؟

Among the kind-hearted, how can one say

که یار ما چنین گفت و چنان کرد

that our beloved said this and did that?

عدو با جان حافظ آن نکردی

The enemy would not have done to the soul of Hafez

که تیر چشم آن ابروکمان کرد

what the arrow of that bow-browed one's eye has done.