Section: «Poems»

Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings: artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.); a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").

Do You Love Me?

A lover asked his beloved,Do you love yourself morethan you love me?The beloved replied,I have died to myselfand I live for you.I've disappeared from..

© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Did I Not Say To You

Did I not say to you, “Go not there, for I am your friend; in thismirage of annihilation I am the fountain of life? ”Even though in anger you depart..

© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Description Of Love

A true lover is proved such by his pain of heart;No sickness is there like sickness of heart.The lover's ailment is different from all ailments;Love..

© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Defeated By Love

The sky was litby the splendor of the moonSo powerfulI fell to the groundYour lovehas made me sureI am ready to forsakethis worldly lifeand..

© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Confused And Distraught

Again I am raging,I am in such a state by your soul that everybond you bind, I break, by your soul.I am like heaven, like the moon, like a candle by..

© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Come, Come, Whoever You Are

Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.It doesn't matter.Ours is not a caravan of despair.Come, even if you have broken your vowa thousand timesCome..

© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Bring Wine

216Bring wine, for I am suffering crop sickness from the vintage;God has seized me, and I am thus held fast.By love’s soul, bring me a cup of wine..

© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Book1 Prologue

Hearken to the reed-flute, how it complains,Lamenting its banishment from its home:'Ever since they tore me from my osier bed,My plaintive notes have..

© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Birdsong

Birdsong brings reliefto my longingI'm just as ecstatic as they are,but with nothing to say!Please universal soul, practicesome song or something..

© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Behind The Scenes

Is it your facethat adorns the garden?Is it your fragrancethat intoxicates this garden?Is it your spiritthat has made this brooka river of..

© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Because I Cannot Sleep

Because I cannot sleepI make music at night.I am troubled by the onewhose face has the color of spring flowers.I have neither sleep nor..

© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Be With Those Who Help Your Being

Be with those who help your being.Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breathcomes cold out of their mouths.Not these visible forms, your work is..

© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Be Lost In The Call

Lord, said David, since you do not need us,why did you create these two worlds?Reality replied: O prisoner of time,I was a secret treasure of..

© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Bad Dreams

One day you will look back and laugh at yourself.You'll say, ‘ I can't believe I was so asleep!How did I ever forget the truth?How ridiculous to..

© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

At The Twilight

At the twilight, a moon appeared in the sky;Then it landed on earth to look at me.Like a hawk stealing a bird at the time of prey;That moon stole me..

© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Any Soul That Drank The Nectar

Any soul that drank the nectar of your passion was lifted.From that water of life he is in a state of elation.Death came, smelled me, and sensed your..

© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

beauty, love, divinity, eternity

Any lifetime that is spent without seeing the masterIs either death in disguise or a deep sleep.The water that pollutes you is poison;The poison that..

© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

life, death, transformation, rebirth

All through eternityBeauty unveils His exquisite formin the solitude of nothingness;He holds a mirror to His Faceand beholds His own beauty.he is the..

© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

A Stone I Died

A stone I died and rose again a plant;A plant I died and rose an animal;I died an animal and was born a man.Why should I fear? What have I lost by..

© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

A New Rule

It is the rule with drunkards to fall upon each other,to quarrel, become violent, and make a scene.The lover is even worse than a drunkard.I will..

© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

A Moment Of Happiness

A moment of happiness,you and I sitting on the verandah,apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.We feel the flowing water of life here,you and I..

© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Youth And Age. (Sonnet Iii.)

Oh give me back the days when loose and freeTo my blind passion were the curb and rein,Oh give me back the angelic face again,With which all virtue..

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Woodstock Park

Here in a little rustic hermitageAlfred the Saxon King, Alfred the Great,Postponed the cares of king-craft to translateThe Consolations of the Roman..

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Woods In Winter

When winter winds are piercing chill,And through the hawthorn blows the gale,With solemn feet I tread the hill,That overbrows the lonely vale.O'er..

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Whither? (From The German Of Müller)

I heard a brooklet gushingFrom its rocky fountain near,Down into the valley rushing,So fresh and wondrous clear.I know not what came o'er me,Nor who..

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow