Where Is Anvari’s House?
Anvariانوری
هر بلایی کز آسمان آید
Every calamity that comes down from the sky,
گرچه بر دیگری قضا باشد
even if it is decreed for someone else,
بر زمین نارسیده می‌گوید
asks, before it has even reached the ground,
خانهٔ انوری کجا باشد
‘Which way is Anvari’s house?’
A note for readers
A short qit'a, among the most quoted of Anvari’s poems, in which he complains wryly that every misfortune in the world comes looking for him. In his own time Anvari was best known for qasidas in praise of the Seljuk sultan Sanjar and his officials, but ironic pieces like this one are the ones most often remembered today.
More poemsشعرهای دیگر
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.