Your face in the mirror of the cup

عکس روی تو چو در آینه جام افتاد

When the reflection of your face fell into the mirror of the cup,

عارف از خنده می در طمع خام افتاد

the knower, laughing from the wine, fell into a raw desire.

حسن روی تو به یک جلوه که در آینه کرد

With a single display your beauty made in the mirror,

این همه نقش در آیینه اوهام افتاد

all these images fell into the mirror of illusion.

این همه عکس می و نقش نگارین که نمود

All these reflections of wine and painted forms that have appeared

یک فروغ رخ ساقی‌ست که در جام افتاد

are a single gleam of the saqi's face that has fallen into the cup.

غیرت عشق زبان همه خاصان ببرید

Love's jealousy cut out the tongues of all the chosen ones;

کز کجا سر غمش در دهن عام افتاد؟

how, then, did the secret of its grief fall into the mouths of the crowd?

من ز مسجد به خرابات نه خود افتادم

I did not fall from the mosque into the tavern of my own will;

اینم از عهد ازل حاصل فرجام افتاد

this was the end allotted to me from pre-eternity.

چه کند کز پی دوران نرود چون پرگار؟

What can he do but follow the turning of time, like a compass,

هر که در دایره گردش ایام افتاد

whoever has fallen within the circle of the revolving days?

در خم زلف تو آویخت دل از چاه زنخ

From the well of your chin my heart caught hold of the curve of your curl;

آه، کز چاه برون آمد و در دام افتاد

ah, it climbed out of the well only to fall into the snare.

آن شد ای خواجه که در صومعه بازم بینی

Those days are gone, sir, when you would see me in the cloister again;

کار ما با رخ ساقی و لب جام افتاد

my business now is with the saqi's face and the lip of the cup.

زیر شمشیر غمش رقص‌کنان باید رفت

Beneath the sword of grief for her one must go dancing,

کـ‌آن که شد کشته او نیک سرانجام افتاد

for whoever is slain by her has come to a good end.

هر دمش با من دل‌سوخته لطفی دگر است

Every moment she has a new kindness for me, the heart-burned one;

این گدا بین که چه شایسته انعام افتاد

see how worthy of reward this beggar has turned out to be.

صوفیان جمله حریفند و نظرباز ولی

The Sufis are all drinking companions and lovers of glances, but

زین میان حافظ دل‌سوخته بدنام افتاد

of them all it is heart-burned Hafez who has fallen into ill repute.