{"product_id":"persian-poets-isbn-9780375411267","title":"Persian Poets","description":"The Middle Ages saw an extraordinary flowering of Persian poetry. Though translations began appearing in Europe in the nineteenth century, these remarkable poets--Omar Khayyam, Rumi, Saadi, Sanai, Attar, Hafiz, and Jami--are still being discovered in the West. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe great medieval Persian poets owe much to the mystical Sufi tradition within Islam, which understands life as a journey in search of enlightenment, and, like their European contemporaries, they combine religious and secular themes. While celebrating the beauty of the world in poems about love, wine, and poetry itself, or telling humorous anecdotes of everyday life, they use these subjects to symbolize deeper concerns with wisdom, mortality, salvation, and the quest for God.\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOMAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe Ruba’iyat \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSANAI\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe Blind Men and the Elephant \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eTheWalled Garden of Truth \u003cbr\u003eThe Wild Rose of Praise\u003cbr\u003eEnergeticWork \u003cbr\u003eEarthworm Guidance \u003cbr\u003eThe Puzzle \u003cbr\u003eThe Time Needed \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eATTAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eListening to the Reed Flute \u003cbr\u003eStreet-Sweeper \u003cbr\u003eLooking for Your Own Face\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eBird Parliament \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRUMI\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eWho SaysWords with My Mouth? \u003cbr\u003eA Community of the Spirit \u003cbr\u003eThe Reed Flute’s Song \u003cbr\u003eSanai \u003cbr\u003eA Just-Finishing Candle\u003cbr\u003eOnly Breath \u003cbr\u003eQuatrains (‘Today, like every other . . .’)\u003cbr\u003eThe Shape of My Tongue \u003cbr\u003eQuatrains (‘The Friend comes . . .’) \u003cbr\u003eTending Two Shops \u003cbr\u003eConstant Conversation \u003cbr\u003eBonfire at Midnight \u003cbr\u003eQuatrains (‘When I am with you . . .’) \u003cbr\u003eSomeone Digging in the Ground \u003cbr\u003eWho Makes These Changes? \u003cbr\u003eChickpea to Cook\u003cbr\u003eThe Mouse and the Camel \u003cbr\u003eQuatrains (‘A craftsman pulled . . .’) \u003cbr\u003eNew Moon, Hilal\u003cbr\u003eThe Bird of My Heart \u003cbr\u003eDie Now \u003cbr\u003eSo Drunk am I \u003cbr\u003eAiming at Brotherhood \u003cbr\u003eThe Assembly is Like a Lamp \u003cbr\u003eTalking in the Night\u003cbr\u003eTalking through the Door \u003cbr\u003eThe Parrot of Bagdad \u003cbr\u003eRemembered Music \u003cbr\u003eThe True Sufi \u003cbr\u003eReality and Appearance \u003cbr\u003eThe Unseen Power \u003cbr\u003eQuatrains (‘Time bringeth . . .’) \u003cbr\u003eHe Comes \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSAADI\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eCompassion \u003cbr\u003eBeneficence \u003cbr\u003eGuardians \u003cbr\u003eJesus and the Sinner \u003cbr\u003eI Heard of a Man\u003cbr\u003eA Certain Man \u003cbr\u003eThey Put a Crow in the Cage \u003cbr\u003eI Asked a Scholar\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eThe Bostan: The Story of the Dervish and a Fox \u003cbr\u003e—In Connection with Humility\u003cbr\u003e—A Story in this Connection \u003cbr\u003e—An Account of a Pious Person’s Humility\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHAFEZ\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eWine\u003cbr\u003eThe Ocean of Love \u003cbr\u003eA Persian Song \u003cbr\u003eThe Lesson of the Flowers \u003cbr\u003eLawful Wine\u003cbr\u003eSwimming \u003cbr\u003eStrife\u003cbr\u003eThe Beloved \u003cbr\u003eRevelation \u003cbr\u003eWild Deer \u003cbr\u003eThe Bird of Gardens\u003cbr\u003eSleep on Thine Eyes\u003cbr\u003eWhere is My Ruined Life? \u003cbr\u003eThe Nightingale\u003cbr\u003eReturn \u003cbr\u003eMy Friend Has Fled\u003cbr\u003eOh,Weep No More \u003cbr\u003eThe Breath of Dawn \u003cbr\u003eAbsence \u003cbr\u003eThe Jewel\u003cbr\u003eThe Dream \u003cbr\u003eForget Not \u003cbr\u003eThe Vale of Silence \u003cbr\u003eThe Garden \u003cbr\u003eThe Gifts\u003cbr\u003eThe Days of Spring \u003cbr\u003eTidings of Union\u003cbr\u003eGhazal 10 \u003cbr\u003eGhazal 27 \u003cbr\u003eGhazal 29 \u003cbr\u003eGhazal 35 \u003cbr\u003eGhazal 36 \u003cbr\u003eGhazal 49 \u003cbr\u003eOde 44 \u003cbr\u003eOde 105 \u003cbr\u003eOde 147 \u003cbr\u003eOde 173 \u003cbr\u003eOde 487 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJAMI\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eMorning Air\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom \u003c\/i\u003eSalámán and Absál:  Preliminary Invocation \u003cbr\u003eThe Simple Arab \u003cbr\u003eThe Birth of Salámán \u003cbr\u003eAbsál Tempts Salámán \u003cbr\u003eThe Lovers Flee \u003cbr\u003eThe Burning of Absál\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBiographies of Poets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/i\u003ePeter Washington is the editor of many of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, including \u003ci\u003eLove Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, and is the author of Madame Blavatsky's \u003ci\u003eBaboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\"The True Sufi\"\u003cbr\u003eby Rumi (translated by R. A. Nicholson)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat makes the Sufi? Purity of heart;\u003cbr\u003eNot the patched mantle and the lust perverse\u003cbr\u003eOf those vile earth-bound men who steal his name.\u003cbr\u003eHe in all dregs discerns the essence pure:\u003cbr\u003eIn hardship ease, in tribulation joy.\u003cbr\u003eThe phantom sentries, who with batons drawn\u003cbr\u003eGuard Beauty's palace-gate and curtained bower,\u003cbr\u003eGive way before him, unafraid he passes,\u003cbr\u003eAnd showing the King's arrow, enters in.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Where Is My Ruined Life?\"\u003cbr\u003eBy Hafiz (translated by Gertrude Bell)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere is my ruined life, and where the fame\u003cbr\u003e    Of noble deeds?\u003cbr\u003eLook on my long-drawn road, and whence it came,\u003cbr\u003e    And where it leads!\u003cbr\u003eCan drunkenness be linked to piety\u003cbr\u003e    And good repute?\u003cbr\u003eWhere is the preacher's holy monody,\u003cbr\u003e    Where is the lute?\u003cbr\u003eFrom monkish cell and lying garb released,\u003cbr\u003e    Oh heart of mine,\u003cbr\u003eWhere is the Tavern fane, the Tavern priest,\u003cbr\u003e    Where is the wine?\u003cbr\u003ePast days of meeting, let the memory\u003cbr\u003e    Of you be sweet!\u003cbr\u003eWhere are those glances fled, and where for me\u003cbr\u003e    Reproaches meet?\u003cbr\u003eHis friend's bright face warms not the enemy\u003cbr\u003e    When love is done-\u003cbr\u003eWhere is the extinguished lamp that made night day\u003cbr\u003e    Where is the sun?\u003cbr\u003eBalm to mine eyes the dust, my head I bow\u003cbr\u003e    Upon thy stair.\u003cbr\u003eWhere shall I go, where from thy presence? Thou\u003cbr\u003e    Art everywhere.\u003cbr\u003eLook not upon the dimple of her chin,\u003cbr\u003e    Danger lurks there!\u003cbr\u003eWhere wilt thou hide, oh trembling heart, fleeing, in \u003cbr\u003e    Such mad haste--where?\u003cbr\u003eTo steadfastness and patience, friend, ask not\u003cbr\u003e    If Hafiz keep--\u003cbr\u003ePatience and steadfastness I have forgot,\u003cbr\u003e    And where is sleep?","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300076015845,"sku":"NP9780375411267","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375411267.jpg?v=1767734675","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/persian-poets-isbn-9780375411267","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}