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Ghazal · 14th century

That bow-browed one

Hafezحافظ

مرا چشمی‌ست خون‌افشان ز دست آن کمان‌ابرو

I have an eye that weeps blood because of that bow-browed one;

جهان بس فتنه خواهد دید از آن چشم و از آن ابرو

the world will see much turmoil from that eye and that eyebrow.

غلام چشم آن ترکم که در خواب خوش مستی

I am the slave of that Turk's eye, who in the sweet sleep of drunkenness

نگارین گلشنش روی است و مشکین سایبان ابرو

has a painted rose garden for a face and a musky canopy of eyebrows.

هلالی شد تنم زین غم که با طغرا‌ی ابرو‌یش

My body has become a crescent with this grief: beside the seal of her eyebrow,

که باشد مه که بنماید ز طاق آسمان ابرو؟

who is the moon, to show its eyebrow from the arch of the sky?

رقیبان غافل و ما را از آن چشم و جبین هر دم

The rivals are unaware, while from that eye and forehead every moment

هزاران گونه پیغام است و حاجب در میان، ابرو

a thousand kinds of message come to us, the eyebrow standing between as chamberlain.

روان گوشه‌گیران را جبینش طرفه گلزار‌ی‌ست

To the souls of the recluses her forehead is a wondrous rose garden,

که بر طرف سمن‌زارش همی گردد چمان ابرو

along whose jasmine borders the eyebrow strolls gracefully.

دگر حور و پری را کس نگوید با چنین حسنی

No one will speak of houris or fairies again beside such beauty,

که این را این چنین چشم است و آن را آن چنان ابرو

for she has eyes like these and eyebrows like those.

تو کافر‌دل نمی‌بندی نقاب زلف و می‌ترسم

Faithless heart, you will not fasten the veil of your curl, and I fear

که محرابم بگرداند خم آن دل‌ستان ابرو

the curve of that heart-stealing eyebrow will turn my prayer-niche around.

اگر چه مرغ زیرک بود حافظ در هوادار‌ی

Though Hafez was a clever bird in his flight of longing,

به تیر غمزه صیدش کرد چشم آن کمان‌ابرو

the eye of that bow-browed one brought him down with the arrow of a glance.

Translation
Persiahaus Editors
Source
Draft translation from the Ganjoor text (Qazvini–Ghani edition)

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