Rumi

1207-1273 / Male / Persian
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Behind the ScenesIs it your face / that adorns the garden? / Is it your fragrance
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Defeated by LoveThe sky was lit / by the splendor of the moon / So powerful
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DepartureUp, O ye lovers, and away! 'Tis time to leave the world for aye. / Hark, loud and clear from heaven the from of parting calls-let none delay! / The cameleer hat risen amain, made ready all the camel-train,
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Do You Love Me?A lover asked his beloved, / Do you love yourself more / than you love me?
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Draw it now from Eternity's JarCome, come, awaken all true drunkards! / Pour the wine that is Life itself! / O cupbearer of the Eternal Wine,
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Gone to the UnseenAt last you have departed and gone to the Unseen. / What marvelous route did you take from this world? / Beating your wings and feathers,
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He ComesHe comes, a moon whose like the sky ne'er saw, awake or dreaming. / Crowned with eternal flame no flood can lay. / Lo, from the flagon of thy love, O Lord, my soul is swimming,
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I Am and I Am NotI’m drenched / in the flood / which has yet to come
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I throw it all awayYou play with the great globe of union, / you that see everyone so clearly / and cannot be seen. Even universal
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Let Me be MadO incomparable Giver of life, cut reason loose at last! / Let it wander grey-eyed from vanity to vanity. / Shatter open my skull, pour in it the wine of madness!
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