The Narrow Flask
Bidel Dehlaviبیدل دهلوی
بی نشان بود این چمن گر وسعتی می‌داشت دل
Had the heart held any breadth, this meadow would have left no trace;
رنگ می بیرون نشست از بس که مینا تنگ بود
the wine’s colour seeped outside because the flask was so narrow.
A note for readers
A couplet from a ghazal by Bidel, often quoted on its own. The visible world, ‘this meadow’, is pictured as the colour of wine showing through the glass, because the heart that should contain it is too narrow.
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یک عمر می‌توان سخن از زلف یار گفت
در بند آن مباش که مضمون نمانده است
One could speak for a lifetime of the beloved’s tresses;
do not fret that there are no themes left.
A Lifetime on the Beloved’s Tresses
بلبلی برگ گلی خوش رنگ در منقار داشت
و اندر آن برگ و نوا خوش ناله‌های زار داشت
A nightingale held in its beak a rose petal of lovely colour,
and with that petal and its song it made sweet, piteous laments.
A nightingale held a rose petal
ستاره ای بدرخشید و ماه مجلس شد
دل رمیده ما را رفیق و مونس شد
A star shone out and became the moon of the gathering,
became friend and companion to our startled heart.