1 The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light 2 I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry 5 And still a Garden by the Water blows 7 The Bird of Time has but a little way 9 Morning a thousand Roses brings you say 12 A Book of Verses underneath the Bough 12 A Jug of Wine a Loaf of Bread and Thou 13 Nor heed the Rumble of a distant Drum 16 Lighting a little Hour or two is gone 24 Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before 25 Descend ourselves to make a Couch for whom 27 A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries 35 And A blind Understanding Heaven replied 40 And has not such a Story from of Old 40 Of such a Clod of saturated Earth 42 And not a Drop that from our Cups we throw 44 Fold and dissolve you in a last Embrace 45 A Moment's Halt a momentary Taste 48 I made a Second Marriage in my House 48 You know my Friends with what a brave Carouse 50 Bearing a Vessel on his Shoulder and 51 The subtle Alchemist that in a Trice 53 A Blessing we should use it should we not 53 And if a Curse why then Who set it there 57 Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow show 57 Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun 61 As much as Ocean of a Pebble cast 62 A Hair they say divides the False and True 63 A Hair they say divides the False and True 63 Yes and a single Alif were the Clue 65 A moment guessd then back behind the Fold 69 If I myself upon a looser Creed 72 Ist not a shame Ist not a shame for him 73 Tis but a Tent where takes his one day's Rest 73 A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest 75 And Hell the Shadow of a Soul on fire 77 Tis all a Chequerboard of Nights and Days 79 Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line 79 Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it 85 The Vine had struck a Fibre which about 85 Of my base Metal may be filed a Key 87 A conscious Something to resent the Yoke 88 Sue for a Debt we never did contract 89 Would kick so poor a Coward from the Place 96 Another said Why neer a peevish Boy 97 A Vessel of a more ungainly Make 98 He's a Good Fellow and twill all be Well 99 Then said another with a long drawn Sigh 101 And in a Windingsheet of Vineleaf wrapt 102 That even my buried Ashes such a Snare 102 As not a True Believer passing by 104 Have drowned my Honour in a shallow Cup 104 And sold my Reputation for a Song 112 And a young Moon requite us by and bye 72 So long in this Clay Suburb to abide 18 Abode his Hour or two and went his way 54 I must abjure the Balm of Life I must 55 If but the Vine and Love abjuring Band 15 Look to the Rose that blows about us Lo 29 About it and about but evermore 41 Why fret about them if TODAY be sweet 57 For in and out above about below 62 About THE SECRET quick about it Friend 78 He knows about it all He knows HE knows 85 The Vine had struck a Fibre which about 57 For in and out above about below 103 Under the Branch that leans above the Wall 51 The Grape that can with Logic absolute 60 Account should lose or know the Type no more 103 Shall Old Acquaintance Old Acquaintance greet 73 A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest 113 Through this same Garden after me in vain 18 How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp 27 And those that after some Tomorrow stare 47 Than sadden after none or bitter Fruit 54 Scared by some After reckoning taen on trust 74 And after many days my Soul returned 96 And Fancy in an after Rage destroy 97 None answered this but after Silence spake 74 Some Letter of that Afterlife to spell 17 As buried once Men want dug up again 92 Listen again One Evening at the Close 95 Should stamp me back to common Earth again 107 Ah whence and whither flown again who knows 113 The Moon of Heaven is rising once again 50 And lately by the Tavern Door agape 110 Hoarser with Anguish as the Ages roll 112 With Age and Fast is fainting from the Sky 42 There hidden far beneath and long ago 13 Ah take the Cash and let the Promise go 22 Ah lean upon it lightly for who knows 23 Ah my Beloved fill the Cup that clears 26 Ah make the most of what we may yet spend 41 Ah fill the Cup what boots it to repeat 67 Ah but my Computations People say 101 Ah with the Grape my fading Life provide 107 Ah whence and whither flown again who knows 111 Ah Love could thou and I with Fate conspire 113 Ah Moon of my Delight who knowst no Wane 72 And naked on the Air of Heaven ride 102 Of Perfume shall fling up into the Air 55 Alack I doubt the Prophet's Paradise 107 Alas that Spring should vanish with the Rose 51 The subtle Alchemist that in a Trice 63 Yes and a single Alif were the Clue 17 Alike to no such aureate Earth are turned 27 Alike for those who for Today prepare 5 Iram indeed is gone with all his Rose 24 That Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest 28 Why all the Saints and Sages who discussed 30 And this was all the Harvest that I reaped 39 And with its all obliterated Tongue 49 Of all that one should care to fathom I 52 That all the misbelieving and black Horde 58 End in the Nothing all Things end in Yes 64 Taking all shapes from Mah to Mahi and 64 They change and perish all but He remains 71 Are all but Stories which awoke from Sleep 77 Tis all a Chequerboard of Nights and Days 78 He knows about it all He knows HE knows 79 Moves on nor all thy Piety nor Wit 79 Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it 91 For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man 93 Shapes of all Sorts and Sizes great and small 93 Listened perhaps but never talked at all 97 They sneer at me for leaning all awry 98 He's a Good Fellow and twill all be Well 100 One spied the little Crescent all were seeking 88 Pure Gold for what he lent us dross allayed 92 In that old Potters Shop I stood alone 11 With me along the strip of Herbage strown 31 And out of it as Wind along the Waste 93 That stood along the floor and by the wall 18 Whose Doorways are alternate Night and Day 74 And said Behold Myself am Heaven and Hell 45 Of Being from the Well amid the Waste 94 And strange to tell among that Earthen Lot 114 Among the Guests star scattered on the Grass 43 To Earth invert you like an empty Cup 50 Came stealing through the Dusk an Angel Shape 80 Is but one Link in an eternal Chain 96 And Fancy in an after Rage destroy 114 Where I made one turn down an empty Glass 5 But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields 1 And Lo the Hunter of the East has caught 2 Awake my Little ones and fill the Cup 3 And as the Cock crew those who stood before 3 And once departed may return no more 4 Puts out and Jesus from the Ground suspires 5 And Jamshyd's Seven ringed Cup where no one knows 5 And still a Garden by the Water blows 6 And David's Lips are lockt but in divine 7 Come fill the Cup and in the Fire of Spring 7 To fly and Lo the Bird is on the Wing 9 And this first Summer Month that brings the Rose 9 Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away 10 But come with old Khayyam and leave the Lot 10 Of Kaikobad and Kaikhosru forgot 11 And pity Mahmud on his golden Throne 11 Where name of Slave and Sultan is forgot 12 A Jug of Wine a Loaf of Bread and Thou 13 Ah take the Cash and let the Promise go 13 Some for the Glories of This World and some 15 Tear and its Treasure on the Garden throw 16 Turns Ashes or it prospers and anon 17 And those who husbanded the Golden Grain 17 And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain 18 Abode his Hour or two and went his way 18 Whose Doorways are alternate Night and Day 19 They say the Lion and the Lizard keep 19 The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep 19 And Bahram that great Hunter the Wild Ass 20 And Coo coo coo she cried and Coo coo coo 20 And Kings the Forehead on his Threshold drew 22 And this delightful Herb whose tender Green 23 TODAY of past Regrets and future Fears 24 Lo some we loved the loveliest and best 24 That Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest 24 And one by one crept silently to Rest 25 And we that now make merry in the Room 25 They left and Summer dresses in new Bloom 26 Dust into Dust and under Dust to lie 26 Sans Wine sans Song sans Singer and sans End 27 And those that after some Tomorrow stare 28 Why all the Saints and Sages who discussed 28 Are scatterd and their Mouths are stopt with Dust 29 Doctor and Saint and heard great Argument 29 About it and about but evermore 30 And with my own Hand laboured it to grow 30 And this was all the Harvest that I reaped 30 I came like Water and like Wind I go 31 Into this Universe and Why not knowing 31 And out of it as Wind along the Waste 32 And without asking whither hurried hence 32 Another and another Cup to drown 33 I rose and on the Throne of Saturn sate 33 And many Knots unraveled by the Road 34 Some little talk awhile of Me and Thee 34 There was and then no more of Thee and Me 35 And A blind Understanding Heaven replied 36 And hidden by the sleeve of Night and Morn 37 And Lip to Lip it murmured While you live 38 And merry make and the cold Lip I kissd 38 How many Kisses might it take and give 39 And with its all obliterated Tongue 40 And has not such a Story from of Old 41 Unborn TOMORROW and dead YESTERDAY 42 And not a Drop that from our Cups we throw 42 There hidden far beneath and long ago 44 Fold and dissolve you in a last Embrace 45 And Lo the phantom Caravan has reached 46 And lose your Fingers in the Tresses of 47 Of This and That Endeavor and Dispute 48 And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse 49 For IS and IS NOT though with Rule and Line 49 And UP AND DOWN by Logic I define 50 And lately by the Tavern Door agape 50 Bearing a Vessel on his Shoulder and 50 He bid me taste of it and twas the Grape 51 The Two and Seventy jarring Sects confute 52 That all the misbelieving and black Horde 52 Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul 52 Scatters and slays with his enchanted Sword 53 And if a Curse why then Who set it there 55 If but the Vine and Love abjuring Band 56 But leave the Wise to wrangle and with me 56 And in some corner of the Hubbub couchd 57 For in and out above about below 57 Round which we Phantom Figures come and go 58 And if the Wine you drink the Lip you press 59 And offering his Cup invite your Soul 60 And fear not lest Existence closing your 60 Millions of Bubbles like us and will pour 61 When You and I behind the Veil are past 61 Which of our Coming and Departure heeds 62 A Hair they say divides the False and True 62 And upon what prithee does Life depend 63 A Hair they say divides the False and True 63 Yes and a single Alif were the Clue 63 And peradventure to THE MASTER too 64 Taking all shapes from Mah to Mahi and 64 They change and perish allbut He remains 66 Of Earth and up to Heavens unopening Door 67 Unborn Tomorrow and dead Yesterday 68 Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise 68 One thing is certain and the rest is Lies 71 The Revelations of Devout and Learned 71 Who rose before us and as Prophets burned 71 They told their fellows and to Sleep returned 72 And naked on the Air of Heaven ride 73 The Sultan rises and the dark Ferrash 73 Strikes and prepares it for another Guest 74 And after many days my Soul returned 74 And said Behold Myself am Heaven and Hell 75 And Hell the Shadow of a Soul on fire 76 Why who art Thou to teach and He to learn 77 Tis all a Chequerboard of Nights and Days 77 Hither and thither moves and mates and slays 77 And one by one back in the Closet lays 78 The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes 78 And he that tossed Thee down into the Field 79 The Moving Finger writes and having writ 80 For let Philosopher and Doctor preach 80 Of what they will and what they will not each 81 And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky 81 Whereunder crawling coopt we live and die 82 And then of the Last Harvest sowed the Seed 84 Of Heaven Parwin and Mushtara they flung 84 In my predestined Plot of Dust and Soul 86 And this I know whether the one True Light 88 And cannot answer Oh the sorry Trade 90 Oh Thou who didst with Pitfall and with Gin 90 Enmesh me and impute my Fall to Sin 91 And who with Eden didst devise the Snake 91 Is blackened Mans Forgiveness give and take 93 Shapes of all Sorts and Sizes great and small 93 That stood along the floor and by the wall 93 And some loquacious Vessels were and some 94 And strange to tell among that Earthen Lot 94 And suddenly one more impatient cried 94 Who is the Potter pray and who the Pot 96 And Fancy in an after Rage destroy 98 He's a Good Fellow and twill all be Well 99 Methinks I might recover by and by 100 And then they jogged each other Brother Brother 101 And wash my Body whence the Life has died 101 And in a Windingsheet of Vineleaf wrapt 103 To shed his Blossom over head and feet 104 And sold my Reputation for a Song 105 And then and then came Spring and Rose in hand 106 And much as Wine has played the Infidel 106 And robbed me of my Robe of Honor well 107 Ah whence and whither flown again who knows 109 And make the stern Recorder otherwise 111 Ah Love could thou and I with Fate conspire 111 Would not we shatter it to bits and then 112 And a young Moon requite us by and bye 112 Look how the Old one meagre bent and wan 112 With Age and Fast is fainting from the Sky 114 And when like her oh Saki you shall pass 114 And in your joyous Errand reach the Spot 50 Came stealing through the Dusk an Angel Shape 59 So when the Angel of the darker Drink 109 Would but some winged Angel ere too late 42 To quench the fire of Anguish in some Eye 110 Hoarser with Anguish as the Ages roll 16 Turns Ashes or it prospers and anon 96 Another said Why neer a peevish Boy 95 Then said another Surely not in vain 98 Why said another Some there are who tell 99 Then said another with a long drawn Sigh 32 Another and another Cup to drown 73 Strikes and prepares it for another Guest 36 Earth could not answer nor the Seas that mourn 88 And cannot answer Oh the sorry Trade 38 Articulation answered once did live 97 None answered this but after Silence spake 49 Was never deep in anything but Wine 105 My threadbare Penitence apieces tore 6 And David's Lips are lockt but in divine 17 Alike to no such aureate Earth are turned 18 Whose Doorways are alternate Night and Day 28 Of the Two Worlds so learnedly are thrust 28 Are scatterd and their Mouths are stopt with Dust 55 Are in the Prophet's Paradise to stand 61 When You and I behind the Veil are past 66 You gaze Today while You are You how then 71 Are all but Stories which awoke from Sleep 98 Why said another Some there are who tell 29 Doctor and Saint and heard great Argument 44 The waving Cypress in your Arms enlace 44 Before the Mother back into her Arms 92 Of Ramazan ere the better Moon arose 109 Arrest the yet unfolded Roll of Fate 58 Then fancy while Thou art Thou art but what 76 Why who art Thou to teach and He to learn 94 Some could articulate while others not 38 Articulation answered once did live 3 And as the Cock crew those who stood before 10 Let Rustum cry To Battle as he likes 17 As buried once Men want dug up again 21 The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled 29 Came out by the same Door as in I went 31 And out of it as Wind along the Waste 43 As then the Tulip for her wonted Sup 53 Blaspheme the twisted Tendril as Snare 55 Were empty as the hollow of ones Hand 56 Make Game of that which makes as much of Thee 61 As much as Ocean of a Pebble cast 71 Who rose before us and as Prophets burned 78 But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes 81 Rolls impotently on as Thou or I 102 As not a True Believer passing by 106 And much as Wine has played the Infidel 106 One half so precious as the Goods they sell 108 As springs the trampled Herbage of the Field 110 Hoarser with Anguish as the Ages roll 16 Turns Ashes or it prospers and anon 102 That even my buried Ashes such a Snare 72 Why if the Soul can fling the Dust aside 32 And without asking whither hurried hence 32 What without asking hither hurried whence 35 Asking What Lamp had Destiny to guide 19 And Bahram that great Hunter the Wild Ass 8 Whether at Naishapur or Babylon 15 At once the silken Tassel of my Purse 59 At last shall find you by the River brink 68 One thing at least is certain This Life flies 92 Listen again One Evening at the Close 93 Listened perhaps but never talked at all 97 They sneer at me for leaning all awry 69 Let this one Thing for my Atonement plead 17 Alike to no such aureate Earth are turned 1 AWAKE for Morning in the Bowl of Night 2 Awake my Little ones and fill the Cup 71 Are all but Stories which awoke from Sleep 9 Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away 14 The Thread of present Life away to win 34 Some little talk awhile of Me and Thee 97 They sneer at me for leaning all awry 78 The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes 8 Whether at Naishapur or Babylon 44 Before the Mother back into her Arms 65 A moment guessd then back behind the Fold 77 And one by one back in the Closet lays 79 Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line 95 Should stamp me back to common Earth again 19 And Bahram that great Hunter the Wild Ass 78 The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes 54 I must abjure the Balm of Life I must 55 If but the Vine and Love abjuring Band 48 Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed 85 Of my base Metal may be filed a Key 91 Oh Thou who Man of baser Earth didst make 18 Think in this battered Caravanserai 10 Let Rustum cry To Battle as he likes 2 Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry 23 Tomorrow Why Tomorrow I may be 41 Why fret about them if TODAY be sweet 47 Better be merry with the fruitful Grape 53 Why be this Juice the growth of God who dare 56 The Quarrel of the Universe let be 58 Thou shalt be Nothing thou shalt not be less 66 Tomorrow when You shall be You no more 76 How long be crying Mercy on them God 85 Of my base Metal may be filed a Key 88 What from his helpless Creature be repaid 98 He's a Good Fellow and twill all be Well 102 But shall be overtaken unaware 112 Be of Good Cheer the sullen Month will die 50 Bearing a Vessel on his Shoulder and 48 Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed 2 Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry 3 And as the Cock crew those who stood before 24 Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before 26 Before we too into the Dust descend 44 Before the Mother back into her Arms 70 Before us passed the Door of Darkness through 71 Who rose before us and as Prophets burned 105 Indeed indeed Repentance oft before 61 When You and I behind the Veil are past 65 A moment guessd then back behind the Fold 65 He does Himself contrive enact behold 74 And said Behold Myself am Heaven and Hell 45 Of Being from the Well amid the Waste 85 If clings my Being let the Dervish flout 102 As not a True Believer passing by 23 Ah my Beloved fill the Cup that clears 42 For Earth to drink of but may steal below 57 For in and out above about below 25 Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth 42 There hidden far beneath and long ago 112 Look how the Old one meagre bent and wan 90 Beset the Road I was to wander in 12 Beside me singing in the Wilderness 24 Lo some we loved the loveliest and best 47 Better be merry with the fruitful Grape 86 Better than in the Temple lost outright 92 Of Ramazan ere the better Moon arose 110 Better oh better cancel from the Scroll 50 He bid me taste of it and twas the Grape 7 The Bird of Time has but a little way 7 To fly and Lo the Bird is on the Wing 111 Would not we shatter it to bits and then 8 Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run 47 Than sadden after none or bitter Fruit 52 That all the misbelieving and black Horde 91 Is blackened Mans Forgiveness give and take 53 Blaspheme the twisted Tendril as Snare 21 The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled 53 A Blessing we should use it should we not 35 And A blind Understanding Heaven replied 25 They left and Summer dresses in new Bloom 103 To shed his Blossom over head and feet 5 And still a Garden by the Water blows 15 Look to the Rose that blows about us Lo 15 Laughing she says into the World I blow 21 I sometimes think that never blows so red 31 I know not Whither willy nilly blowing 68 The Flower that once is blown for ever dies 101 And wash my Body whence the Life has died 12 A Book of Verses underneath the Bough 41 Ah fill the Cup what boots it to repeat 4 Where the White Hand Of Moses on the Bough 12 A Book of Verses underneath the Bough 1 AWAKE for Morning in the Bowl of Night 60 The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has poured 81 And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky 96 Would break the Bowl from which he drank in Joy 57 Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun 96 Another said Why neer a peevish Boy 103 Under the Branch that leans above the Wall 107 The Nightingale that in the Branches sang 48 You know my Friends with what a brave Carouse 12 A Jug of Wine a Loaf of Bread and Thou 19 Stamps o'er his Head but cannot break his Sleep 80 That none can slip nor break nor overreach 87 Of Everlasting Penalties if broke 96 Would break the Bowl from which he drank in Joy 14 Breathe out the very Breath we now breathe in 14 Breathe out the very Breath we now breathe in 9 Morning a thousand Roses brings you say 9 And this first Summer Month that brings the Rose 59 At last shall find you by the River brink 39 It murmured Gently Brother gently pray 100 And then they jogged each other Brother Brother 60 Millions of Bubbles like us and will pour 101 So bury me by some sweet Garden side 17 As buried once Men want dug up again 21 The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled 102 That even my buried Ashes such a Snare 71 Who rose before us and as Prophets burned 76 Oh Thou who burnst in Heart for those who burn 5 But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields 6 And David's Lips are lockt but in divine 7 The Bird of Time has but a little way 9 Yes but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday 10 But come with old Khayyam and leave the Lot 19 Stamps o'er his Head but cannot break his Sleep 29 About it and about but evermore 33 But not the Master Knot of Human Fate 42 For Earth to drink of but may steal below 49 Was never deep in anything but Wine 55 If but the Vine and Love abjuring Band 56 But leave the Wise to wrangle and with me 57 Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow show 58 Then fancy while Thou art Thou art but what 61 Oh but the long long while the World shall last 63 Could you but find it to the Treasure house 64 They change and perish all but He remains 66 But if in vain down on the stubborn Floor 67 Ah but my Computations People say 71 Are all but Stories which awoke from Sleep 73 Tis but a Tent where takes his one day's Rest 75 Heaven but the Vision of fulfilled Desire 78 But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes 80 Is but one Link in an eternal Chain 89 Nay but for terror of his wrathful Face 89 Not one Good Fellow of the Tavern but 93 Listened perhaps but never talked at all 97 None answered this but after Silence spake 99 But fill me with the old familiar Juice 102 But shall be overtaken unaware 105 I swore but was I sober when I swore 108 Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield 109 Would but some winged Angel ere too late 106 I often wonder what the Vintners buy 5 And still a Garden by the Water blows 8 The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop 8 The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one 24 And one by one crept silently to Rest 29 Came out by the same Door as in I went 33 And many Knots unraveled by the Road 36 And hidden by the sleeve of Night and Morn 40 Cast by the Maker into human Mould 49 And UP AND DOWN by Logic I define 50 And lately by the Tavern Door agape 54 Scared by some After reckoning taen on trust 59 At last shall find you by the River brink 67 If so by striking from the Calendar 77 And one by one back in the Closet lays 93 That stood along the floor and by the wall 99 Methinks I might recover by and by 100 So while the Vessels one by one were speaking 101 So bury me by some sweet Garden side 102 As not a True Believer passing by 110 Than drop by drop enlarge the Flood that rolls 112 And a young Moon requite us by and bye 112 And a young Moon requite us by and bye 21 The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled 67 If so by striking from the Calendar 81 And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky 89 I swear I will not call Injustice Grace 51 The Grape that can with Logic absolute 72 Why if the Soul can fling the Dust aside 80 That none can slip nor break nor overreach 79 Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line 110 Better oh better cancel from the Scroll 57 Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun 19 Stamps o'er his Head but cannot break his Sleep 88 And cannot answer Oh the sorry Trade 45 And Lo the phantom Caravan has reached 18 Think in this battered Caravanserai 49 Of all that one should care to fathom I 48 You know my Friends with what a brave Carouse 13 Ah take the Cash and let the Promise go 40 Cast by the Maker into human Mould 61 As much as Ocean of a Pebble cast 75 Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves 1 And Lo the Hunter of the East has caught 86 One Glimpse of It within the Tavern caught 33 Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate 68 One thing at least is certain This Life flies 68 One thing is certain and the rest is Lies 80 Is but one Link in an eternal Chain 43 Of Heavenly Vintage lifts her Chalice up 64 They change and perish allbut He remains 6 That yellow Cheek of hers to incarnadine 112 Be of Good Cheer the sullen Month will die 77 Tis all a Chequerboard of Nights and Days 35 Her little Children stumbling in the Dark 39 I watched the Potter thumping his wet Clay 72 So long in this Clay Suburb to abide 82 With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead 92 With the clay Population round in Rows 99 My Clay with long oblivion is gone dry 23 Ah my Beloved fill the Cup that clears 85 If clings my Being let the Dervish flout 40 Of such a Clod of saturated Earth 60 And fear not lest Existence closing your 107 That Youth's sweet scented Manuscript should close 92 Listen again One Evening at the Close 77 And one by one back in the Closet lays 63 Yes and a single Alif were the Clue 3 And as the Cock crew those who stood before 38 And merry make and the cold Lip I kissd 7 Come fill the Cup and in the Fire of Spring 10 But come with old Khayyam and leave the Lot 13 Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come 29 Came out by the same Door as in I went 30 I came like Water and like Wind I go 50 Came stealing through the Dusk an Angel Shape 57 Round which we Phantom Figures come and go 83 Drink for you know not whence you came nor why 105 And then and then came Spring and Rose in hand 61 Which of our Coming and Departure heeds 95 My Substance from the common Earth was taen 95 Should stamp me back to common Earth again 67 Have squared the Year to human Compass eh 67 Ah but my Computations People say 51 The Two and Seventy jarring Sects confute 87 A conscious Something to resent the Yoke 111 Ah Love could thou and I with Fate conspire 86 Kindle to Love or Wrath consume me quite 88 Sue for a Debt we never did contract 65 He does Himself contrive enact behold 20 And Coo coo coo she cried and Coo coo coo 81 Whereunder crawling coopt we live and die 56 And in some corner of the Hubbub couchd 25 Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth 25 Descend ourselves to make a Couch for whom 56 And in some corner of the Hubbub couchd 34 There was the Veil through which I could not see 36 Earth could not answer nor the Seas that mourn 63 Could you but find it to the Treasure house 94 Some could articulate while others not 111 Ah Love could thou and I with Fate conspire 19 The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep 89 Would kick so poor a Coward from the Place 81 Whereunder crawling coopt we live and die 100 Hark to the Porter's Shoulder knot a-creaking 64 Whose secret Presence through Creations veins 82 Yea the first Morning of Creation wrote 88 What from his helpless Creature be repaid 104 Have done my Credit in Men's Eye much Wrong 69 If I myself upon a looser Creed 24 And one by one crept silently to Rest 100 One spied the little Crescent all were seeking 3 And as the Cock crew those who stood before 54 To fill the Cup when crumbled into Dust 2 I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry 6 Red Wine the Nightingale cries to the Rose 10 Let Rustum cry To Battle as he likes 10 Or Hatim Tai cry Supper heed them not 20 And Coo coo coo she cried and Coo coo coo 27 A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries 35 Then to the rolling Heaven itself I cried 76 How long be crying Mercy on them God 94 And suddenly one more impatient cried 2 Awake my Little ones and fill the Cup 2 Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry 5 And Jamshyd's Seven ringed Cup where no one knows 7 Come fill the Cup and in the Fire of Spring 8 Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run 23 Ah my Beloved fill the Cup that clears 24 Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before 32 Another and another Cup to drown 41 Ah fill the Cup what boots it to repeat 43 To Earth invert you like an empty Cup 54 To fill the Cup when crumbled into Dust 59 And offering his Cup invite your Soul 42 And not a Drop that from our Cups we throw 104 Have drowned my Honour in a shallow Cup 53 And if a Curse why then Who set it there 44 The waving Cypress in your Arms enlace 46 The Cypress slender Minister of Wine 53 Why be this Juice the growth of God who dare 35 Her little Children stumbling in the Dark 59 So when the Angel of the darker Drink 73 The Sultan rises and the dark Ferrash 27 A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries 65 Immersed of Darkness round the Drama rolled 70 Before us passed the Door of Darkness through 75 Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves 48 And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse 6 And David's Lips are lockt but in divine 2 Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky 82 What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read 18 Whose Doorways are alternate Night and Day 39 For in the Marketplace one Dusk of Day 73 Tis but a Tent where takes his one day's Rest 74 And after many days my Soul returned 77 Tis all a Chequerboard of Nights and Days 83 Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare 37 Drink for once dead you never shall return 41 Unborn TOMORROW and dead YESTERDAY 67 Unborn Tomorrow and dead Yesterday 73 A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest 88 Sue for a Debt we never did contract 69 Have loosely strung the Jewel of Good Deed 19 The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep 49 Was never deep in anything but Wine 49 And UP AND DOWN by Logic I define 113 Ah Moon of my Delight who knowst no Wane 22 And this delightful Herb whose tender Green 3 And once departed may return no more 61 Which of our Coming and Departure heeds 62 And upon what prithee does Life depend 85 If clings my Being let the Dervish flout 25 Descend ourselves to make a Couch for whom 26 Before we too into the Dust descend 11 That just divides the Desert from the sown 16 Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face 108 Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield 4 Now the New Year reviving old Desires 75 Heaven but the Vision of fulfilled Desire 111 Re mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire 83 Tomorrow's Silence Triumph or Despair 35 Asking What Lamp had Destiny to guide 77 Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays 96 And Fancy in an after Rage destroy 91 And who with Eden didst devise the Snake 71 The Revelations of Devout and Learned 29 Myself when young did eagerly frequent 30 With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow 38 Articulation answered once did live 69 That One for Two I never did misread 82 With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead 83 Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare 88 Sue for a Debt we never did contract 97 What did the Hand then of the Potter shake 90 Oh Thou who didst with Pitfall and with Gin 91 Oh Thou who Man of baser Earth didst make 91 And who with Eden didst devise the Snake 68 The Flower that once is blown for ever dies 81 Whereunder crawling coopt we live and die 101 And wash my Body whence the Life has died 112 Be of Good Cheer the sullen Month will die 108 One glimpse if dimly yet indeed revealed 70 Which to discover we must travel too 28 Why all the Saints and Sages who discussed 47 Of This and That Endeavor and Dispute 44 Fold and dissolve you in a last Embrace 13 Nor heed the Rumble of a distant Drum 11 That just divides the Desert from the sown 62 A Hair they say divides the False and True 63 A Hair they say divides the False and True 6 And David's Lips are lockt but in divine 54 Or lured with Hope of some Diviner Drink 46 Oh plagued no more with Human or Divine 48 Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed 43 Do you twin Offspring of the Soil till Heaven 44 Do you within your little Hour of Grace 62 And upon what prithee does Life depend 65 He does Himself contrive enact behold 29 Doctor and Saint and heard great Argument 80 For let Philosopher and Doctor preach 104 Have done my Credit in Men's Eye much Wrong 3 The Tavern shouted Open then the Door 29 Came out by the same Door as in I went 34 There was the Door to which I found no Key 50 And lately by the Tavern Door agape 66 Of Earth and up to Heavens unopening Door 70 Before us passed the Door of Darkness through 85 That shall unlock the Door he howls without 18 Whose Doorways are alternate Night and Day 55 Alack I doubt the Prophet's Paradise 49 And UP AND DOWN by Logic I define 40 Down Mans successive Generations rolled 66 But if in vain down on the stubborn Floor 78 And he that tossed Thee down into the Field 114 Where I made one turn down an empty Glass 65 Immersed of Darkness round the Drama rolled 99 Then said another with a long drawn Sigh 2 Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky 25 They left and Summer dresses in new Bloom 20 And Kings the Forehead on his Threshold drew 54 Or lured with Hope of some Diviner Drink 59 So when the Angel of the darker Drink 19 The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep 24 Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before 37 Drink for once dead you never shall return 42 For Earth to drink of but may steal below 58 And if the Wine you drink the Lip you press 83 Drink for you know not whence you came nor why 83 Drink for you know not why you go nor where 96 Would break the Bowl from which he drank in Joy 8 The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop 42 And not a Drop that from our Cups we throw 110 Than drop by drop enlarge the Flood that rolls 21 Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head 88 Pure Gold for what he lent us dross allayed 32 Another and another Cup to drown 104 Have drowned my Honour in a shallow Cup 13 Nor heed the Rumble of a distant Drum 2 Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry 99 My Clay with long oblivion is gone dry 17 As buried once Men want dug up again 39 For in the Marketplace one Dusk of Day 50 Came stealing through the Dusk an Angel Shape 26 Dust into Dust and under Dust to lie 26 Before we too into the Dust descend 28 Are scatterd and their Mouths are stopt with Dust 54 To fill the Cup when crumbled into Dust 72 Why if the Soul can fling the Dust aside 84 In my predestined Plot of Dust and Soul 16 Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face 80 Of what they will and what they will not each 100 And then they jogged each other Brother Brother 29 Myself when young did eagerly frequent 17 Alike to no such aureate Earth are turned 25 Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth 33 Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate 36 Earth could not answer nor the Seas that mourn 40 Of such a Clod of saturated Earth 42 For Earth to drink of but may steal below 43 To Earth invert you like an empty Cup 66 Of Earth and up to Heavens unopening Door 82 With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead 91 Oh Thou who Man of baser Earth didst make 95 My Substance from the common Earth was taen 95 Should stamp me back to common Earth again 37 Then to the Lip of this poor earthen Urn 94 And strange to tell among that Earthen Lot 1 And Lo the Hunter of the East has caught 91 And who with Eden didst devise the Snake 67 Have squared the Year to human Compass eh 64 Running Quicksilver like eludes your Pains 44 Fold and dissolve you in a last Embrace 75 So late emergd from shall so soon expire 43 To Earth invert you like an empty Cup 55 Were empty as the hollow of ones Hand 114 Where I made one turn down an empty Glass 65 He does Himself contrive enact behold 52 Scatters and slays with his enchanted Sword 26 Sans Wine sans Song sans Singer and sans End 58 End in the Nothing all Things end in Yes 47 Of This and That Endeavor and Dispute 44 The waving Cypress in your Arms enlace 110 Than drop by drop enlarge the Flood that rolls 90 Enmesh me and impute my Fall to Sin 12 Oh Wilderness were Paradise enow 109 Enregister or quite obliterate 111 To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire 92 Of Ramazan ere the better Moon arose 109 Would but some winged Angel ere too late 114 And in your joyous Errand reach the Spot 36 Nor Heaven with those eternal Signs revealed 60 The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has poured 80 Is but one Link in an eternal Chain 65 Which for the Pastime of Eternity 102 That even my buried Ashes such a Snare 92 Listen again One Evening at the Close 68 The Flower that once is blown for ever dies 87 Of Everlasting Penalties if broke 29 About it and about but evermore 21 That every Hyacinth the Garden wears 90 Thou will not with Predestined Evil round 60 And fear not lest Existence closing your 62 Would you that spangle of Existence spend 75 So late emergd from shall so soon expire 42 To quench the fire of Anguish in some Eye 104 Have done my Credit in Men's Eye much Wrong 16 Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face 89 Nay but for terror of his wrathful Face 91 For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man 101 Ah with the Grape my fading Life provide 108 To which the fainting Traveller might spring 112 With Age and Fast is fainting from the Sky 90 Enmesh me and impute my Fall to Sin 8 The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one 62 A Hair they say divides the False and True 63 A Hair they say divides the False and True 99 But fill me with the old familiar Juice 58 Then fancy while Thou art Thou art but what 96 And Fancy in an after Rage destroy 42 There hidden far beneath and long ago 112 With Age and Fast is fainting from the Sky 24 That Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest 33 But not the Master Knot of Human Fate 109 Arrest the yet unfolded Roll of Fate 111 Ah Love could thou and I with Fate conspire 49 Of all that one should care to fathom I 60 And fear not lest Existence closing your 23 TODAY of past Regrets and future Fears 52 Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul 76 In Hell whose Fires thyself shall feed in turn 41 How Time is slipping underneath our Feet 103 To shed his Blossom over head and feet 71 They told their fellows and to Sleep returned 89 Not one Good Fellow of the Tavern but 98 He's a Good Fellow and twill all be Well 73 The Sultan rises and the dark Ferrash 85 The Vine had struck a Fibre which about 78 And he that tossed Thee down into the Field 108 As springs the trampled Herbage of the Field 57 Round which we Phantom Figures come and go 85 Of my base Metal may be filed a Key 2 Awake my Little ones and fill the Cup 7 Come fill the Cup and in the Fire of Spring 23 Ah my Beloved fill the Cup that clears 41 Ah fill the Cup what boots it to repeat 54 To fill the Cup when crumbled into Dust 99 But fill me with the old familiar Juice 34 There was the Door to which I found no Key 59 At last shall find you by the River brink 63 Could you but find it to the Treasure house 46 And lose your Fingers in the Tresses of 79 The Moving Finger writes and having writ 7 Come fill the Cup and in the Fire of Spring 42 To quench the fire of Anguish in some Eye 75 And Hell the Shadow of a Soul on fire 76 In Hell whose Fires thyself shall feed in turn 9 And this first Summer Month that brings the Rose 82 With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead 82 Yea the first Morning of Creation wrote 84 Over the Shoulders of the flaming Foal 22 Fledges the River's Lip on which we lean 68 One thing at least is certain This Life flies 1 Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight 1 Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight 7 The Winter Garment of Repentance fling 17 And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain 72 Why if the Soul can fling the Dust aside 84 Of Heaven Parwin and Mushtara they flung 102 Of Perfume shall fling up into the Air 110 Than drop by drop enlarge the Flood that rolls 66 But if in vain down on the stubborn Floor 93 That stood along the floor and by the wall 85 If clings my Being let the Dervish flout 68 The Flower that once is blown for ever dies 31 Nor Whence like Water willy nilly flowing 36 In flowing Purple of their Lord forlorn 7 To fly and Lo the Bird is on the Wing 107 Ah whence and whither flown again who knows 84 Over the Shoulders of the flaming Foal 65 A moment guessd then back behind the Fold 44 Fold and dissolve you in a last Embrace 14 Were it not Folly Spider like to spin 28 Like foolish Prophets forth their Works to Scorn 27 Fools Your Reward is neither Here nor There 1 AWAKE for Morning in the Bowl of Night 13 Some for the Glories of This World and some 13 Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come 14 What for ourselves who know not if we shall 22 Ah lean upon it lightly for who knows 25 Descend ourselves to make a Couch for whom 27 Alike for those who for Today prepare 37 Drink for once dead you never shall return 39 For in the Marketplace one Dusk of Day 42 For Earth to drink of but may steal below 43 As then the Tulip for her wonted Sup 49 For IS and IS NOT though with Rule and Line 57 For in and out above about below 65 Which for the Pastime of Eternity 68 The Flower that once is blown for ever dies 69 Let this one Thing for my Atonement plead 69 That One for Two I never did misread 72 Ist not a shame Ist not a shame for him 73 Strikes and prepares it for another Guest 76 Oh Thou who burnst in Heart for those who burn 77 Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays 80 For let Philosopher and Doctor preach 81 Lift not thy Hands to it for help for It 83 Drink for you know not whence you came nor why 83 Drink for you know not why you go nor where 88 Pure Gold for what he lent us dross allayed 88 Sue for a Debt we never did contract 89 Nay but for terror of his wrathful Face 91 For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man 97 They sneer at me for leaning all awry 104 And sold my Reputation for a Song 20 And Kings the Forehead on his Threshold drew 91 Is blackened Mans Forgiveness give and take 10 Of Kaikobad and Kaikhosru forgot 11 Where name of Slave and Sultan is forgot 36 In flowing Purple of their Lord forlorn 28 Like foolish Prophets forth their Works to Scorn 59 Forth to your Lips to quaff you shall not shrink 108 Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield 29 Myself when young did eagerly frequent 41 Why fret about them if TODAY be sweet 48 You know my Friends with what a brave Carouse 62 About THE SECRET quick about it Friend 4 Puts out and Jesus from the Ground suspires 11 That just divides the Desert from the sown 21 Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head 22 From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen 27 A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries 33 Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate 40 And has not such a Story from of Old 42 And not a Drop that from our Cups we throw 45 Of Being from the Well amid the Waste 45 The Nothing it set out from Oh make haste 48 Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed 60 The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has poured 64 Taking all shapes from Mah to Mahi and 67 If so by striking from the Calendar 71 Are all but Stories which awoke from Sleep 75 So late emergd from shall so soon expire 84 I tell Thee this When starting from the Goal 88 What from his helpless Creature be repaid 89 Would kick so poor a Coward from the Place 95 My Substance from the common Earth was taen 96 Would break the Bowl from which he drank in Joy 103 Whither resorting from the vernal Heat 110 Better oh better cancel from the Scroll 112 With Age and Fast is fainting from the Sky 47 Than sadden after none or bitter Fruit 47 Better be merry with the fruitful Grape 38 I think the Vessel that with fugitive 75 Heaven but the Vision of fulfilled Desire 23 TODAY of past Regrets and future Fears 56 Make Game of that which makes as much of Thee 5 And still a Garden by the Water blows 15 Tear and its Treasure on the Garden throw 21 That every Hyacinth the Garden wears 101 So bury me by some sweet Garden side 113 Through this same Garden after me in vain 7 The Winter Garment of Repentance fling 33 Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate 66 You gaze Today while You are You how then 40 Down Mans successive Generations rolled 39 It murmured Gently Brother gently pray 90 Oh Thou who didst with Pitfall and with Gin 38 How many Kisses might it take and give 91 Is blackened Mans Forgiveness give and take 114 Where I made one turn down an empty Glass 86 One Glimpse of It within the Tavern caught 108 One glimpse if dimly yet indeed revealed 19 The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep 13 Some for the Glories of This World and some 13 Ah take the Cash and let the Promise go 30 I came like Water and like Wind I go 57 Round which we Phantom Figures come and go 78 But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes 83 Drink for you know not why you go nor where 84 I tell Thee this When starting from the Goal 53 Why be this Juice the growth of God who dare 76 How long be crying Mercy on them God 51 Life's leaden Metal into Gold transmute 88 Pure Gold for what he lent us dross allayed 11 And pity Mahmud on his golden Throne 17 And those who husbanded the Golden Grain 5 Iram indeed is gone with all his Rose 16 Lighting a little Hour or two is gone 99 My Clay with long oblivion is gone dry 69 Have loosely strung the Jewel of Good Deed 89 Not one Good Fellow of the Tavern but 98 He's a Good Fellow and twill all be Well 112 Be of Good Cheer the sullen Month will die 106 One half so precious as the Goods they sell 44 Do you within your little Hour of Grace 89 I swear I will not call Injustice Grace 17 And those who husbanded the Golden Grain 47 Better be merry with the fruitful Grape 50 He bid me taste of it and twas the Grape 51 The Grape that can with Logic absolute 101 Ah with the Grape my fading Life provide 111 To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire 114 Among the Guests star scattered on the Grass 19 And Bahram that great Hunter the Wild Ass 29 Doctor and Saint and heard great Argument 93 Shapes of all Sorts and Sizes great and small 22 And this delightful Herb whose tender Green 103 Shall Old Acquaintance Old Acquaintance greet 4 Puts out and Jesus from the Ground suspires 30 And with my own Hand laboured it to grow 53 Why be this Juice the growth of God who dare 65 A moment guessd then back behind the Fold 73 Strikes and prepares it for another Guest 114 Among the Guests star scattered on the Grass 35 Asking What Lamp had Destiny to guide 35 Asking What Lamp had Destiny to guide 85 The Vine had struck a Fibre which about 62 A Hair they say divides the False and True 63 A Hair they say divides the False and True 79 Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line 106 One half so precious as the Goods they sell 45 A Moment's Halt a momentary Taste 2 Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky 4 Where the White Hand Of Moses on the Bough 30 And with my own Hand laboured it to grow 55 Were empty as the hollow of ones Hand 97 What did the Hand then of the Potter shake 81 Lift not thy Hands to it for help for It 105 And then and then came Spring and Rose in hand 100 Hark to the Porter's Shoulder knot a-creaking 30 And this was all the Harvest that I reaped 82 And then of the Last Harvest sowed the Seed 1 Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight 1 And Lo the Hunter of the East has caught 7 The Bird of Time has but a little way 40 And has not such a Story from of Old 45 And Lo the phantom Caravan has reached 60 The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has poured 101 And wash my Body whence the Life has died 106 And much as Wine has played the Infidel 45 The Nothing it set out from Oh make haste 10 Or Hatim Tai cry Supper heed them not 3 You know how little while we have to stay 24 Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before 67 Have squared the Year to human Compass eh 69 Have loosely strung the Jewel of Good Deed 79 The Moving Finger writes and having writ 104 Indeed the Idols I have loved so long 104 Have done my Credit in Men's Eye much Wrong 104 Have drowned my Honour in a shallow Cup 10 Let Rustum cry To Battle as he likes 50 He bid me taste of it and twas the Grape 64 They change and perish allbut He remains 65 He does Himself contrive enact behold 76 Why who art Thou to teach and He to learn 78 And he that tossed Thee down into the Field 78 He knows about it all He knows HE knows 85 That shall unlock the Door he howls without 88 Pure Gold for what he lent us dross allayed 95 That He who subtly wrought me into Shape 96 Would break the Bowl from which he drank in Joy 96 Shall He that made the Vessel in pure Love 98 Of one who threatens he will toss to Hell 98 The luckless Pots he marred in making Pish 98 He's a Good Fellow and twill all be Well 19 Stamps o'er his Head but cannot break his Sleep 21 Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head 103 To shed his Blossom over head and feet 2 I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry 29 Doctor and Saint and heard great Argument 16 The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon 76 Oh Thou who burnst in Heart for those who burn 111 Re mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire 103 Whither resorting from the vernal Heat 20 The Palace that to Heaven his Pillars threw 35 Then to the rolling Heaven itself I cried 35 And A blind Understanding Heaven replied 36 Nor Heaven with those eternal Signs revealed 43 Do you twin Offspring of the Soil till Heaven 66 Of Earth and up to Heaven's unopening Door 72 And naked on the Air of Heaven ride 74 And said Behold Myself am Heaven and Hell 75 Heaven but the Vision of fulfilled Desire 84 Of Heaven Parwin and Mushtara they flung 113 The Moon of Heaven is rising once again 43 Of Heavenly Vintage lifts her Chalice up 10 Or Hatim Tai cry Supper heed them not 13 Nor heed the Rumble of a distant Drum 61 Which of our Coming and Departure heeds 68 Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise 74 And said Behold Myself am Heaven and Hell 75 And Hell the Shadow of a Soul on fire 76 In Hell whose Fires thyself shall feed in turn 98 Of one who threatens he will toss to Hell 81 Lift not thy Hands to it for help for It 88 What from his helpless Creature be repaid 32 And without asking whither hurried hence 5 But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields 6 That yellow Cheek of hers to incarnadine 35 Her little Children stumbling in the Dark 43 As then the Tulip for her wonted Sup 43 Of Heavenly Vintage lifts her Chalice up 44 Before the Mother back into her Arms 114 And when like her oh Saki you shall pass 22 And this delightful Herb whose tender Green 11 With me along the strip of Herbage strown 108 As springs the trampled Herbage of the Field 27 Fools Your Reward is neither Here nor There 113 How oft hereafter rising shall she look 36 And hidden by the sleeve of Night and Morn 42 There hidden far beneath and long ago 6 High piping Pehlevi with Wine Wine Wine 72 Ist not a shame Ist not a shame for him 65 He does Himself contrive enact behold 5 Iram indeed is gone with all his Rose 11 And pity Mahmud on his golden Throne 18 How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp 18 Abode his Hour or two and went his way 19 Stamps o'er his Head but cannot break his Sleep 20 The Palace that to Heaven his Pillars threw 20 And Kings the Forehead on his Threshold drew 39 I watched the Potter thumping his wet Clay 50 Bearing a Vessel on his Shoulder and 52 Scatters and slays with his enchanted Sword 59 And offering his Cup invite your Soul 73 Tis but a Tent where takes his one day's Rest 88 What from his helpless Creature be repaid 89 Nay but for terror of his wrathful Face 103 To shed his Blossom over head and feet 32 What without asking hither hurried whence 77 Hither and thither moves and mates and slays 110 Hoarser with Anguish as the Ages roll 55 Were empty as the hollow of ones Hand 104 Have drowned my Honour in a shallow Cup 106 And robbed me of my Robe of Honor well 16 The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon 54 Or lured with Hope of some Diviner Drink 68 Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise 52 That all the misbelieving and black Horde 16 Lighting a little Hour or two is gone 18 Abode his Hour or two and went his way 44 Do you within your little Hour of Grace 47 Waste not your Hour nor in the vain Pursuit 48 I made a Second Marriage in my House 63 Could you but find it to the Treasure house 3 You know how little while we have to stay 18 How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp 38 How many Kisses might it take and give 41 How Time is slipping underneath our Feet 66 You gaze Today while You are You how then 76 How long be crying Mercy on them God 112 Look how the Old one meagre bent and wan 113 How oft hereafter rising shall she look 85 That shall unlock the Door he howls without 56 And in some corner of the Hubbub couchd 46 Oh plagued no more with Human or Divine 33 But not the Master Knot of Human Fate 40 Cast by the Maker into human Mould 67 Have squared the Year to human Compass eh 110 Of Universe one luckless Human Soul 1 And Lo the Hunter of the East has caught 19 And Bahram that great Hunter the Wild Ass 32 And without asking whither hurried hence 32 What without asking hither hurried whence 17 And those who husbanded the Golden Grain 21 That every Hyacinth the Garden wears 2 I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry 15 Laughing she says into the World I blow 20 I saw the solitary Ringdove there 21 I sometimes think that never blows so red 23 Tomorrow Why Tomorrow I may be 29 Came out by the same Door as in I went 30 With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow 30 And this was all the Harvest that I reaped 30 I came like Water and like Wind I go 31 I know not Whither willy nilly blowing 33 I rose and on the Throne of Saturn sate 34 There was the Veil through which I could not see 34 There was the Door to which I found no Key 35 Then to the rolling Heaven itself I cried 37 I leaned the secret Well of Life to learn 38 I think the Vessel that with fugitive 38 And merry make and the cold Lip I kissd 39 I watched the Potter thumping his wet Clay 48 I made a Second Marriage in my House 49 And UP AND DOWN by Logic I define 49 Of all that one should care to fathom I 54 I must abjure the Balm of Life I must 55 Alack I doubt the Prophet's Paradise 61 When You and I behind the Veil are past 69 If I myself upon a looser Creed 69 That One for Two I never did misread 74 I sent my Soul through the Invisible 81 Rolls impotently on as Thou or I 84 I tell Thee this When starting from the Goal 86 And this I know whether the one True Light 89 I swear I will not call Injustice Grace 90 Beset the Road I was to wander in 92 In that old Potters Shop I stood alone 99 Methinks I might recover by and by 104 Indeed the Idols I have loved so long 105 I swore but was I sober when I swore 106 I often wonder what the Vintners buy 111 Ah Love could thou and I with Fate conspire 114 Where I made one turn down an empty Glass 104 Indeed the Idols I have loved so long 14 What for ourselves who know not if we shall 41 Why fret about them if TODAY be sweet 53 And if a Curse why then Who set it there 55 If but the Vine and Love abjuring Band 58 And if the Wine you drink the Lip you press 66 But if in vain down on the stubborn Floor 67 If so by striking from the Calendar 69 If I myself upon a looser Creed 72 Why if the Soul can fling the Dust aside 85 If clings my Being let the Dervish flout 87 Of Everlasting Penalties if broke 108 One glimpse if dimly yet indeed revealed 65 Immersed of Darkness round the Drama rolled 94 And suddenly one more impatient cried 32 The Memory of this Impertinence 81 Rolls impotently on as Thou or I 90 Enmesh me and impute my Fall to Sin 1 AWAKE for Morning in the Bowl of Night 1 The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light 2 Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky 2 Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry 6 And David's Lips are lockt but in divine 7 Come fill the Cup and in the Fire of Spring 12 Beside me singing in the Wilderness 14 Breathe out the very Breath we now breathe in 18 Think in this battered Caravanserai 21 Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head 25 And we that now make merry in the Room 25 They left and Summer dresses in new Bloom 29 Came out by the same Door as in I went 35 Her little Children stumbling in the Dark 36 In flowing Purple of their Lord forlorn 39 For in the Marketplace one Dusk of Day 42 To quench the fire of Anguish in some Eye 44 The waving Cypress in your Arms enlace 44 Fold and dissolve you in a last Embrace 46 And lose your Fingers in the Tresses of 47 Waste not your Hour nor in the vain Pursuit 48 I made a Second Marriage in my House 49 Was never deep in anything but Wine 51 The subtle Alchemist that in a Trice 55 Are in the Prophet's Paradise to stand 56 And in some corner of the Hubbub couchd 57 For in and out above about below 57 Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun 58 End in the Nothing all Things end in Yes 66 But if in vain down on the stubborn Floor 72 So long in this Clay Suburb to abide 76 Oh Thou who burnst in Heart for those who burn 76 In Hell whose Fires thyself shall feed in turn 77 And one by one back in the Closet lays 80 Is but one Link in an eternal Chain 84 In my predestined Plot of Dust and Soul 86 Better than in the Temple lost outright 90 Beset the Road I was to wander in 92 In that old Potters Shop I stood alone 92 With the clay Population round in Rows 95 Then said another Surely not in vain 96 Would break the Bowl from which he drank in Joy 96 Shall He that made the Vessel in pure Love 96 And Fancy in an after Rage destroy 98 The luckless Pots he marred in making Pish 101 And in a Windingsheet of Vineleaf wrapt 104 Have done my Credit in Men's Eye much Wrong 104 Have drowned my Honour in a shallow Cup 105 And then and then came Spring and Rose in hand 107 The Nightingale that in the Branches sang 113 Through this same Garden after me in vain 114 And in your joyous Errand reach the Spot 6 That yellow Cheek of hers to incarnadine 5 Iram indeed is gone with all his Rose 104 Indeed the Idols I have loved so long 105 Indeed indeed Repentance oft before 108 One glimpse if dimly yet indeed revealed 52 Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul 106 And much as Wine has played the Infidel 89 I swear I will not call Injustice Grace 15 Laughing she says into the World I blow 26 Before we too into the Dust descend 26 Dust into Dust and under Dust to lie 31 Into this Universe and Why not knowing 40 Cast by the Maker into human Mould 44 Before the Mother back into her Arms 51 Life's leaden Metal into Gold transmute 54 To fill the Cup when crumbled into Dust 75 Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves 78 And he that tossed Thee down into the Field 95 That He who subtly wrought me into Shape 102 Of Perfume shall fling up into the Air 43 To Earth invert you like an empty Cup 81 And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky 74 I sent my Soul through the Invisible 59 And offering his Cup invite your Soul 5 Iram indeed is gone with all his Rose 5 Iram indeed is gone with all his Rose 7 To fly and Lo the Bird is on the Wing 11 Where name of Slave and Sultan is forgot 16 Lighting a little Hour or two is gone 27 Fools Your Reward is neither Here nor There 41 How Time is slipping underneath our Feet 49 For IS and IS NOT though with Rule and Line 57 Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun 68 One thing at least is certain This Life flies 68 One thing is certain and the rest is Lies 68 The Flower that once is blown for ever dies 70 Strange is it not that of the Myriads who 80 Is but one Link in an eternal Chain 91 Is blackened Mans Forgiveness give and take 94 Who is the Potter pray and who the Pot 99 My Clay with long oblivion is gone dry 112 With Age and Fast is fainting from the Sky 113 The Moon of Heaven is rising once again 72 Is't not a shame Is't not a shame for him 14 Were it not Folly Spider like to spin 16 Turns Ashes or it prospers and anon 17 And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain 22 Ah lean upon it lightly for who knows 22 From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen 29 About it and about but evermore 30 And with my own Hand laboured it to grow 31 And out of it as Wind along the Waste 37 And Lip to Lip it murmured While you live 38 How many Kisses might it take and give 39 It murmured Gently Brother gently pray 41 Ah fill the Cup what boots it to repeat 45 The Nothing it set out from Oh make haste 50 He bid me taste of it and twas the Grape 53 A Blessing we should use it should we not 53 And if a Curse why then Who set it there 62 About THE SECRET quick about it Friend 63 Could you but find it to the Treasure house 70 Strange is it not that of the Myriads who 73 Strikes and prepares it for another Guest 78 He knows about it all He knows HE knows 79 Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line 79 Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it 81 Lift not thy Hands to it for help for It 86 One Glimpse of It within the Tavern caught 111 Would not we shatter it to bits and then 111 Re mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire 2 Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry 15 Tear and its Treasure on the Garden throw 21 Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head 39 And with its all obliterated Tongue 35 Then to the rolling Heaven itself I cried 46 Tomorrows Tangle to itself resign 5 And Jamshyd's Seven ringed Cup where no one knows 9 Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away 19 The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep 51 The Two and Seventy jarring Sects confute 4 Puts out and Jesus from the Ground suspires 69 Have loosely strung the Jewel of Good Deed 100 And then they jogged each other Brother Brother 96 Would break the Bowl from which he drank in Joy 114 And in your joyous Errand reach the Spot 12 A Jug of Wine a Loaf of Bread and Thou 53 Why be this Juice the growth of God who dare 99 But fill me with the old familiar Juice 11 That just divides the Desert from the sown 10 Of Kaikobad and Kaikhosru forgot 9 Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away 10 Of Kaikobad and Kaikhosru forgot 8 The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop 8 The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one 19 They say the Lion and the Lizard keep 34 There was the Door to which I found no Key 85 Of my base Metal may be filed a Key 10 But come with old Khayyam and leave the Lot 89 Would kick so poor a Coward from the Place 86 Kindle to Love or Wrath consume me quite 20 And Kings the Forehead on his Threshold drew 38 And merry make and the cold Lip I kissd 38 How many Kisses might it take and give 82 With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead 33 But not the Master Knot of Human Fate 33 And many Knots unraveled by the Road 100 Hark to the Porter's Shoulder knot a-creaking 3 You know how little while we have to stay 5 And Jamshyd's Seven ringed Cup where no one knows 14 What for ourselves who know not if we shall 22 Ah lean upon it lightly for who knows 31 Into this Universe and Why not knowing 31 I know not Whither willy nilly blowing 48 You know my Friends with what a brave Carouse 60 Account should lose or know the Type no more 78 He knows about it all He knows HE knows 83 Drink for you know not whence you came nor why 83 Drink for you know not why you go nor where 86 And this I know whether the one True Light 107 Ah whence and whither flown again who knows 113 Ah Moon of my Delight who knowst no Wane 30 And with my own Hand laboured it to grow 35 Asking What Lamp had Destiny to guide 21 Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head 44 Fold and dissolve you in a last Embrace 59 At last shall find you by the River brink 82 With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead 82 And then of the Last Harvest sowed the Seed 82 What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read 61 Oh but the long long while the World shall last 75 So late emergd from shall so soon expire 109 Would but some winged Angel ere too late 50 And lately by the Tavern Door agape 15 Laughing she says into the World I blow 77 And one by one back in the Closet lays 51 Life's leaden Metal into Gold transmute 22 Fledges the River's Lip on which we lean 22 Ah lean upon it lightly for who knows 37 I leaned the secret Well of Life to learn 97 They sneer at me for leaning all awry 103 Under the Branch that leans above the Wall 37 I leaned the secret Well of Life to learn 76 Why who art Thou to teach and He to learn 71 The Revelations of Devout and Learned 28 Of the Two Worlds so learnedly are thrust 68 One thing at least is certain This Life flies 10 But come with old Khayyam and leave the Lot 56 But leave the Wise to wrangle and with me 9 Yes but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday 8 The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one 2 Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky 25 They left and Summer dresses in new Bloom 78 But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes 88 Pure Gold for what he lent us dross allayed 58 Thou shalt be Nothing thou shalt not be less 60 And fear not lest Existence closing your 10 Let Rustum cry To Battle as he likes 13 Ah take the Cash and let the Promise go 56 The Quarrel of the Universe let be 69 Let this one Thing for my Atonement plead 80 For let Philosopher and Doctor preach 85 If clings my Being let the Dervish flout 74 Some Letter of that Afterlife to spell 26 Dust into Dust and under Dust to lie 68 One thing is certain and the rest is Lies 2 Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry 8 The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop 8 The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one 14 The Thread of present Life away to win 37 I leaned the secret Well of Life to learn 54 I must abjure the Balm of Life I must 62 And upon what prithee does Life depend 68 One thing at least is certain This Life flies 51 Life's leaden Metal into Gold transmute 101 Ah with the Grape my fading Life provide 101 And wash my Body whence the Life has died 43 Of Heavenly Vintage lifts her Chalice up 81 Lift not thy Hands to it for help for It 1 The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light 86 And this I know whether the one True Light 16 Lighting a little Hour or two is gone 22 Ah lean upon it lightly for who knows 10 Let Rustum cry To Battle as he likes 14 Were it not Folly Spider like to spin 16 Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face 17 And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain 28 Like foolish Prophets forth their Works to Scorn 30 I came like Water and like Wind I go 31 Nor Whence like Water willy nilly flowing 43 To Earth invert you like an empty Cup 60 Millions of Bubbles like us and will pour 64 Running Quicksilver like eludes your Pains 114 And when like her oh Saki you shall pass 49 For IS and IS NOT though with Rule and Line 79 Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line 80 Is but one Link in an eternal Chain 19 They say the Lion and the Lizard keep 6 And David's Lips are lockt but in divine 22 Fledges the River's Lip on which we lean 22 From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen 37 Then to the Lip of this poor earthen Urn 37 And Lip to Lip it murmured While you live 38 And merry make and the cold Lip I kissd 58 And if the Wine you drink the Lip you press 59 Forth to your Lips to quaff you shall not shrink 2 Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry 92 Listen again One Evening at the Close 93 Listened perhaps but never talked at all 2 Awake my Little ones and fill the Cup 3 You know how little while we have to stay 7 The Bird of Time has but a little way 16 Lighting a little Hour or two is gone 34 Some little talk awhile of Me and Thee 35 Her little Children stumbling in the Dark 44 Do you within your little Hour of Grace 100 One spied the little Crescent all were seeking 37 And Lip to Lip it murmured While you live 38 Articulation answered once did live 81 Whereunder crawling coopt we live and die 19 They say the Lion and the Lizard keep 1 And Lo the Hunter of the East has caught 7 To fly and Lo the Bird is on the Wing 15 Look to the Rose that blows about us Lo 24 Lo some we loved the loveliest and best 45 And Lo the phantom Caravan has reached 12 A Jug of Wine a Loaf of Bread and Thou 6 And David's Lips are lockt but in divine 49 And UP AND DOWN by Logic I define 51 The Grape that can with Logic absolute 42 There hidden far beneath and long ago 61 Oh but the long long while the World shall last 72 So long in this Clay Suburb to abide 99 Then said another with a long drawn Sigh 99 My Clay with long oblivion is gone dry 104 Indeed the Idols I have loved so long 15 Look to the Rose that blows about us Lo 112 Look how the Old one meagre bent and wan 113 How oft hereafter rising shall she look 69 Have loosely strung the Jewel of Good Deed 69 If I myself upon a looser Creed 93 And some loquacious Vessels were and some 36 In flowing Purple of their Lord forlorn 52 The mighty Mahmud the victorious Lord 46 And lose your Fingers in the Tresses of 60 Account should lose or know the Type no more 86 Better than in the Temple lost outright 10 But come with old Khayyam and leave the Lot 94 And strange to tell among that Earthen Lot 55 If but the Vine and Love abjuring Band 86 Kindle to Love or Wrath consume me quite 96 Shall He that made the Vessel in pure Love 111 Ah Love could thou and I with Fate conspire 24 Lo some we loved the loveliest and best 104 Indeed the Idols I have loved so long 24 Lo some we loved the loveliest and best 21 Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head 22 From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen 98 The luckless Pots he marred in making Pish 110 Of Universe one luckless Human Soul 54 Or lured with Hope of some Diviner Drink 79 Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line 83 Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare 57 Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow show 64 Taking all shapes from Mah to Mahi and 64 Taking all shapes from Mah to Mahi and 11 And pity Mahmud on his golden Throne 52 The mighty Mahmud the victorious Lord 25 And we that now make merry in the Room 25 Descend ourselves to make a Couch for whom 26 Ah make the most of what we may yet spend 38 And merry make and the cold Lip I kissd 45 The Nothing it set out from Oh make haste 48 I made a Second Marriage in my House 56 Make Game of that which makes as much of Thee 78 The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes 91 Oh Thou who Man of baser Earth didst make 96 Shall He that made the Vessel in pure Love 98 The luckless Pots he marred in making Pish 109 And make the stern Recorder otherwise 114 Where I made one turn down an empty Glass 97 A Vessel of a more ungainly Make 40 Cast by the Maker into human Mould 40 Down Mans successive Generations rolled 82 With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead 91 Oh Thou who Man of baser Earth didst make 91 For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man 91 Is blackened Mans Forgiveness give and take 107 That Youth's sweet scented Manuscript should close 33 And many Knots unraveled by the Road 38 How many Kisses might it take and give 74 And after many days my Soul returned 39 For in the Marketplace one Dusk of Day 98 The luckless Pots he marred in making Pish 48 I made a Second Marriage in my House 33 But not the Master Knot of Human Fate 63 And peradventure to THE MASTER too 77 Hither and thither moves and mates and slays 3 And once departed may return no more 23 Tomorrow Why Tomorrow I may be 26 Ah make the most of what we may yet spend 42 For Earth to drink of but may steal below 85 Of my base Metal may be filed a Key 11 With me along the strip of Herbage strown 12 Beside me singing in the Wilderness 34 Some little talk awhile of Me and Thee 34 There was and then no more of Thee and Me 50 He bid me taste of it and twas the Grape 56 But leave the Wise to wrangle and with me 86 Kindle to Love or Wrath consume me quite 90 Enmesh me and impute my Fall to Sin 95 That He who subtly wrought me into Shape 95 Should stamp me back to common Earth again 97 They sneer at me for leaning all awry 99 But fill me with the old familiar Juice 101 So bury me by some sweet Garden side 106 And robbed me of my Robe of Honor well 113 Through this same Garden after me in vain 112 Look how the Old one meagre bent and wan 32 The Memory of this Impertinence 16 The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon 17 As buried once Men want dug up again 77 Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays 104 Have done my Credit in Men's Eye much Wrong 76 How long be crying Mercy on them God 25 And we that now make merry in the Room 38 And merry make and the cold Lip I kissd 47 Better be merry with the fruitful Grape 51 Life's leaden Metal into Gold transmute 85 Of my base Metal may be filed a Key 99 Methinks I might recover by and by 38 How many Kisses might it take and give 99 Methinks I might recover by and by 108 To which the fainting Traveller might spring 52 The mighty Mahmud the victorious Lord 60 Millions of Bubbles like us and will pour 46 The Cypress slender Minister of Wine 52 That all the misbelieving and black Horde 69 That One for Two I never did misread 45 A Moment's Halt a momentary Taste 65 A moment guessd then back behind the Fold 45 A Moment's Halt a momentary Taste 9 And this first Summer Month that brings the Rose 112 Be of Good Cheer the sullen Month will die 92 Of Ramazan ere the better Moon arose 112 And a young Moon requite us by and bye 113 Ah Moon of my Delight who knowst no Wane 113 The Moon of Heaven is rising once again 3 And once departed may return no more 34 There was and then no more of Thee and Me 46 Oh plagued no more with Human or Divine 60 Account should lose or know the Type no more 66 Tomorrow when You shall be You no more 94 And suddenly one more impatient cried 97 A Vessel of a more ungainly Make 36 And hidden by the sleeve of Night and Morn 1 AWAKE for Morning in the Bowl of Night 9 Morning a thousand Roses brings you say 82 Yea the first Morning of Creation wrote 4 Where the White Hand Of Moses on the Bough 26 Ah make the most of what we may yet spend 44 Before the Mother back into her Arms 40 Cast by the Maker into human Mould 36 Earth could not answer nor the Seas that mourn 28 Are scatterd and their Mouths are stopt with Dust 77 Hither and thither moves and mates and slays 79 The Moving Finger writes and having writ 79 Moves on nor all thy Piety nor Wit 56 Make Game of that which makes as much of Thee 61 As much as Ocean of a Pebble cast 104 Have done my Credit in Men's Eye much Wrong 106 And much as Wine has played the Infidel 27 A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries 37 And Lip to Lip it murmured While you live 39 It murmured Gently Brother gently pray 84 Of Heaven Parwin and Mushtara they flung 25 Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth 54 I must abjure the Balm of Life I must 70 Which to discover we must travel too 2 Awake my Little ones and fill the Cup 15 At once the silken Tassel of my Purse 23 Ah my Beloved fill the Cup that clears 30 And with my own Hand laboured it to grow 48 You know my Friends with what a brave Carouse 48 I made a Second Marriage in my House 48 Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed 67 Ah but my Computations People say 69 Let this one Thing for my Atonement plead 74 I sent my Soul through the Invisible 74 And after many days my Soul returned 84 In my predestined Plot of Dust and Soul 85 If clings my Being let the Dervish flout 85 Of my base Metal may be filed a Key 90 Enmesh me and impute my Fall to Sin 95 My Substance from the common Earth was taen 99 My Clay with long oblivion is gone dry 101 Ah with the Grape my fading Life provide 101 And wash my Body whence the Life has died 102 That even my buried Ashes such a Snare 104 Have done my Credit in Men's Eye much Wrong 104 Have drowned my Honour in a shallow Cup 104 And sold my Reputation for a Song 105 My threadbare Penitence apieces tore 106 And robbed me of my Robe of Honor well 113 Ah Moon of my Delight who knowst no Wane 70 Strange is it not that of the Myriads who 23 Myself with Yesterday's Seven thousand Years 29 Myself when young did eagerly frequent 69 If I myself upon a looser Creed 74 And said Behold Myself am Heaven and Hell 8 Whether at Naishapur or Babylon 72 And naked on the Air of Heaven ride 11 Where name of Slave and Sultan is forgot 89 Nay but for terror of his wrathful Face 111 Re mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire 96 Another said Why neer a peevish Boy 27 Fools Your Reward is neither Here nor There 21 I sometimes think that never blows so red 37 Drink for once dead you never shall return 49 Was never deep in anything but Wine 69 That One for Two I never did misread 88 Sue for a Debt we never did contract 93 Listened perhaps but never talked at all 4 Now the New Year reviving old Desires 25 They left and Summer dresses in new Bloom 1 AWAKE for Morning in the Bowl of Night 18 Whose Doorways are alternate Night and Day 36 And hidden by the sleeve of Night and Morn 77 Tis all a Chequerboard of Nights and Days 6 Red Wine the Nightingale cries to the Rose 107 The Nightingale that in the Branches sang 3 And once departed may return no more 5 And Jamshyd's Seven ringed Cup where no one knows 17 Alike to no such aureate Earth are turned 34 There was the Door to which I found no Key 34 There was and then no more of Thee and Me 46 Oh plagued no more with Human or Divine 60 Account should lose or know the Type no more 66 Tomorrow when You shall be You no more 78 The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes 113 Ah Moon of my Delight who knowst no Wane 78 The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes 47 Than sadden after none or bitter Fruit 80 That none can slip nor break nor overreach 97 None answered this but after Silence spake 1 The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light 13 Nor heed the Rumble of a distant Drum 27 Fools Your Reward is neither Here nor There 31 Nor Whence like Water willy nilly flowing 36 Earth could not answer nor the Seas that mourn 36 Nor Heaven with those eternal Signs revealed 47 Waste not your Hour nor in the vain Pursuit 79 Moves on nor all thy Piety nor Wit 79 Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it 80 That none can slip nor break nor overreach 83 Drink for you know not whence you came nor why 83 Drink for you know not why you go nor where 10 Or Hatim Tai cry Supper heed them not 14 Were it not Folly Spider like to spin 14 What for ourselves who know not if we shall 31 Into this Universe and Why not knowing 31 I know not Whither willy nilly blowing 33 But not the Master Knot of Human Fate 34 There was the Veil through which I could not see 36 Earth could not answer nor the Seas that mourn 40 And has not such a Story from of Old 42 And not a Drop that from our Cups we throw 47 Waste not your Hour nor in the vain Pursuit 49 For IS and IS NOT though with Rule and Line 53 A Blessing we should use it should we not 58 Thou shalt be Nothing thou shalt not be less 59 Forth to your Lips to quaff you shall not shrink 60 And fear not lest Existence closing your 70 Strange is it not that of the Myriads who 70 Not one returns to tell us of the Road 72 Ist not a shame Ist not a shame for him 80 Of what they will and what they will not each 81 Lift not thy Hands to it for help for It 83 Drink for you know not whence you came nor why 83 Drink for you know not why you go nor where 89 I swear I will not call Injustice Grace 89 Not one Good Fellow of the Tavern but 90 Thou will not with Predestined Evil round 94 Some could articulate while others not 95 Then said another Surely not in vain 102 As not a True Believer passing by 111 Would not we shatter it to bits and then 45 The Nothing it set out from Oh make haste 57 Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow show 58 End in the Nothing all Things end in Yes 58 Thou shalt be Nothing thou shalt not be less 87 What out of senseless Nothing to provoke 4 Now the New Year reviving old Desires 14 Breathe out the very Breath we now breathe in 25 And we that now make merry in the Room 39 And with its all obliterated Tongue 109 Enregister or quite obliterate 99 My Clay with long oblivion is gone dry 61 As much as Ocean of a Pebble cast 19 Stamps o'er his Head but cannot break his Sleep 1 And Lo the Hunter of the East has caught 1 AWAKE for Morning in the Bowl of Night 1 The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light 4 Where the White Hand Of Moses on the Bough 6 That yellow Cheek of hers to incarnadine 7 Come fill the Cup and in the Fire of Spring 7 The Winter Garment of Repentance fling 7 The Bird of Time has but a little way 8 The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop 8 The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one 9 Yes but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday 10 Of Kaikobad and Kaikhosru forgot 11 With me along the strip of Herbage strown 11 Where name of Slave and Sultan is forgot 12 A Book of Verses underneath the Bough 12 A Jug of Wine a Loaf of Bread and Thou 13 Some for the Glories of This World and some 13 Nor heed the Rumble of a distant Drum 14 The Thread of present Life away to win 15 At once the silken Tassel of my Purse 23 TODAY of past Regrets and future Fears 24 That Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest 25 Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth 26 Ah make the most of what we may yet spend 27 A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries 28 Of the Two Worlds so learnedly are thrust 30 With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow 31 And out of it as Wind along the Waste 32 The Memory of this Impertinence 33 I rose and on the Throne of Saturn sate 33 But not the Master Knot of Human Fate 34 Some little talk awhile of Me and Thee 34 There was and then no more of Thee and Me 36 In flowing Purple of their Lord forlorn 36 And hidden by the sleeve of Night and Morn 37 Then to the Lip of this poor earthen Urn 37 I leaned the secret Well of Life to learn 39 For in the Marketplace one Dusk of Day 40 And has not such a Story from of Old 40 Of such a Clod of saturated Earth 42 For Earth to drink of but may steal below 42 To quench the fire of Anguish in some Eye 43 Of Heavenly Vintage lifts her Chalice up 43 Do you twin Offspring of the Soil till Heaven 44 Do you within your little Hour of Grace 45 Of Being from the Well amid the Waste 46 And lose your Fingers in the Tresses of 46 The Cypress slender Minister of Wine 47 Of This and That Endeavor and Dispute 48 And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse 49 Of all that one should care to fathom I 50 He bid me taste of it and twas the Grape 52 Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul 53 Why be this Juice the growth of God who dare 54 I must abjure the Balm of Life I must 54 Or lured with Hope of some Diviner Drink 55 Were empty as the hollow of ones Hand 56 The Quarrel of the Universe let be 56 And in some corner of the Hubbub couchd 56 Make Game of that which makes as much of Thee 59 So when the Angel of the darker Drink 60 Millions of Bubbles like us and will pour 61 Which of our Coming and Departure heeds 61 As much as Ocean of a Pebble cast 62 Would you that spangle of Existence spend 65 Immersed of Darkness round the Drama rolled 65 Which for the Pastime of Eternity 66 Of Earth and up to Heavens unopening Door 68 Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise 69 Have loosely strung the Jewel of Good Deed 70 Strange is it not that of the Myriads who 70 Before us passed the Door of Darkness through 70 Not one returns to tell us of the Road 71 The Revelations of Devout and Learned 72 And naked on the Air of Heaven ride 73 A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest 74 Some Letter of that Afterlife to spell 75 Heaven but the Vision of fulfilled Desire 75 And Hell the Shadow of a Soul on fire 77 Tis all a Chequerboard of Nights and Days 78 The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes 79 Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it 80 Of what they will and what they will not each 82 And then of the Last Harvest sowed the Seed 82 Yea the first Morning of Creation wrote 82 What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read 84 Over the Shoulders of the flaming Foal 84 Of Heaven Parwin and Mushtara they flung 84 In my predestined Plot of Dust and Soul 85 Of my base Metal may be filed a Key 86 One Glimpse of It within the Tavern caught 87 What out of senseless Nothing to provoke 87 Of unpermitted Pleasure under Pain 87 Of Everlasting Penalties if broke 89 Nay but for terror of his wrathful Face 89 Not one Good Fellow of the Tavern but 91 Oh Thou who Man of baser Earth didst make 91 For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man 92 Of Ramazan ere the better Moon arose 93 Shapes of all Sorts and Sizes great and small 97 A Vessel of a more ungainly Make 97 What did the Hand then of the Potter shake 98 Of one who threatens he will toss to Hell 101 And in a Windingsheet of Vineleaf wrapt 102 Of Perfume shall fling up into the Air 106 And robbed me of my Robe of Honor well 108 Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield 108 As springs the trampled Herbage of the Field 109 Arrest the yet unfolded Roll of Fate 110 Of Universe one luckless Human Soul 111 To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire 112 Be of Good Cheer the sullen Month will die 113 Ah Moon of my Delight who knowst no Wane 113 The Moon of Heaven is rising once again 59 And offering his Cup invite your Soul 43 Do you twin Offspring of the Soil till Heaven 105 Indeed indeed Repentance oft before 113 How oft hereafter rising shall she look 106 I often wonder what the Vintners buy 12 Oh Wilderness were Paradise enow 45 The Nothing it set out from Oh make haste 46 Oh plagued no more with Human or Divine 61 Oh but the long long while the World shall last 68 Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise 76 Oh Thou who burnst in Heart for those who burn 88 And cannot answer Oh the sorry Trade 90 Oh Thou who didst with Pitfall and with Gin 91 Oh Thou who Man of baser Earth didst make 110 Better oh better cancel from the Scroll 114 And when like her oh Saki you shall pass 40 And has not such a Story from of Old 4 Now the New Year reviving old Desires 10 But come with old Khayyam and leave the Lot 48 Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed 92 In that old Potters Shop I stood alone 99 But fill me with the old familiar Juice 103 Shall Old Acquaintance Old Acquaintance greet 112 Look how the Old one meagre bent and wan 4 Where the White Hand Of Moses on the Bough 7 To fly and Lo the Bird is on the Wing 11 And pity Mahmud on his golden Throne 15 Tear and its Treasure on the Garden throw 20 And Kings the Forehead on his Threshold drew 22 Fledges the River's Lip on which we lean 33 I rose and on the Throne of Saturn sate 50 Bearing a Vessel on his Shoulder and 54 Scared by some After reckoning taen on trust 66 But if in vain down on the stubborn Floor 72 And naked on the Air of Heaven ride 75 And Hell the Shadow of a Soul on fire 75 Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves 76 How long be crying Mercy on them God 79 Moves on nor all thy Piety nor Wit 81 Rolls impotently on as Thou or I 114 Among the Guests star scattered on the Grass 3 And once departed may return no more 15 At once the silken Tassel of my Purse 17 As buried once Men want dug up again 21 Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head 22 From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen 37 Drink for once dead you never shall return 38 Articulation answered once did live 68 The Flower that once is blown for ever dies 113 The Moon of Heaven is rising once again 8 The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one 24 And one by one crept silently to Rest 39 For in the Marketplace one Dusk of Day 55 Were empty as the hollow of ones Hand 68 One thing at least is certain This Life flies 68 One thing is certain and the rest is Lies 69 Let this one Thing for my Atonement plead 73 Tis but a Tent where takes his one day's Rest 77 And one by one back in the Closet lays 80 Is but one Link in an eternal Chain 86 And this I know whether the one True Light 86 One Glimpse of It within the Tavern caught 89 Not one Good Fellow of the Tavern but 92 Listen again One Evening at the Close 100 So while the Vessels one by one were speaking 106 One half so precious as the Goods they sell 108 One glimpse if dimly yet indeed revealed 110 Of Universe one luckless Human Soul 114 Where I made one turn down an empty Glass 2 Awake my Little ones and fill the Cup 5 And Jamshyd's Seven ringed Cup where no one knows 49 Of all that one should care to fathom I 69 That One for Two I never did misread 70 Not one returns to tell us of the Road 94 And suddenly one more impatient cried 98 Of one who threatens he will toss to Hell 100 One spied the little Crescent all were seeking 112 Look how the Old one meagre bent and wan 8 The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop 3 The Tavern shouted Open then the Door 8 Whether at Naishapur or Babylon 8 Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run 10 Or Hatim Tai cry Supper heed them not 16 Turns Ashes or it prospers and anon 16 Lighting a little Hour or two is gone 18 Abode his Hour or two and went his way 24 Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before 46 Oh plagued no more with Human or Divine 47 Than sadden after none or bitter Fruit 54 Or lured with Hope of some Diviner Drink 60 Account should lose or know the Type no more 78 But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes 81 Rolls impotently on as Thou or I 83 Tomorrow's Silence Triumph or Despair 86 Kindle to Love or Wrath consume me quite 109 Enregister or quite obliterate 94 Some could articulate while others not 100 And then they jogged each other Brother Brother 109 And make the stern Recorder otherwise 41 How Time is slipping underneath our Feet 42 And not a Drop that from our Cups we throw 61 Which of our Coming and Departure heeds 14 What for ourselves who know not if we shall 25 Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth 25 Descend ourselves to make a Couch for whom 75 Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves 4 Puts out and Jesus from the Ground suspires 14 Breathe out the very Breath we now breathe in 29 Came out by the same Door as in I went 31 And out of it as Wind along the Waste 45 The Nothing it set out from Oh make haste 57 For in and out above about below 79 Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it 87 What out of senseless Nothing to provoke 86 Better than in the Temple lost outright 84 Over the Shoulders of the flaming Foal 103 To shed his Blossom over head and feet 80 That none can slip nor break nor overreach 102 But shall be overtaken unaware 30 And with my own Hand laboured it to grow 64 Running Quicksilver like eludes your Pains 87 Of unpermitted Pleasure under Pain 20 The Palace that to Heaven his Pillars threw 12 Oh Wilderness were Paradise enow 13 Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come 55 Are in the Prophet's Paradise to stand 55 Alack I doubt the Prophet's Paradise 68 Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise 84 Of Heaven Parwin and Mushtara they flung 61 When You and I behind the Veil are past 70 Before us passed the Door of Darkness through 102 As not a True Believer passing by 114 And when like her oh Saki you shall pass 23 TODAY of past Regrets and future Fears 65 Which for the Pastime of Eternity 61 As much as Ocean of a Pebble cast 96 Another said Why neer a peevish Boy 6 High piping Pehlevi with Wine Wine Wine 87 Of Everlasting Penalties if broke 105 My threadbare Penitence apieces tore 67 Ah but my Computations People say 63 And peradventure to THE MASTER too 102 Of Perfume shall fling up into the Air 93 Listened perhaps but never talked at all 64 They change and perish allbut He remains 45 And Lo the phantom Caravan has reached 57 Round which we Phantom Figures come and go 80 For let Philosopher and Doctor preach 77 Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays 79 Moves on nor all thy Piety nor Wit 20 The Palace that to Heaven his Pillars threw 6 High piping Pehlevi with Wine Wine Wine 98 The luckless Pots he marred in making Pish 90 Oh Thou who didst with Pitfall and with Gin 11 And pity Mahmud on his golden Throne 89 Would kick so poor a Coward from the Place 46 Oh plagued no more with Human or Divine 57 Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun 77 Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays 106 And much as Wine has played the Infidel 78 But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes 69 Let this one Thing for my Atonement plead 87 Of unpermitted Pleasure under Pain 84 In my predestined Plot of Dust and Soul 18 How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp 37 Then to the Lip of this poor earthen Urn 89 Would kick so poor a Coward from the Place 92 With the clay Population round in Rows 100 Hark to the Porter's Shoulder knot a-creaking 94 Who is the Potter pray and who the Pot 98 The luckless Pots he marred in making Pish 39 I watched the Potter thumping his wet Clay 92 In that old Potters Shop I stood alone 94 Who is the Potter pray and who the Pot 97 What did the Hand then of the Potter shake 60 The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has poured 60 Millions of Bubbles like us and will pour 39 It murmured Gently Brother gently pray 94 Who is the Potter pray and who the Pot 80 For let Philosopher and Doctor preach 106 One half so precious as the Goods they sell 84 In my predestined Plot of Dust and Soul 90 Thou will not with Predestined Evil round 27 Alike for those who for Today prepare 73 Strikes and prepares it for another Guest 83 Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare 64 Whose secret Presence through Creations veins 14 The Thread of present Life away to win 24 That Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest 58 And if the Wine you drink the Lip you press 62 And upon what prithee does Life depend 13 Ah take the Cash and let the Promise go 13 Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come 28 Like foolish Prophets forth their Works to Scorn 55 Are in the Prophet's Paradise to stand 55 Alack I doubt the Prophet's Paradise 71 Who rose before us and as Prophets burned 16 Turns Ashes or it prospers and anon 101 Ah with the Grape my fading Life provide 87 What out of senseless Nothing to provoke 88 Pure Gold for what he lent us dross allayed 96 Shall He that made the Vessel in pure Love 36 In flowing Purple of their Lord forlorn 15 At once the silken Tassel of my Purse 47 Waste not your Hour nor in the vain Pursuit 1 Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight 4 Puts out and Jesus from the Ground suspires 59 Forth to your Lips to quaff you shall not shrink 56 The Quarrel of the Universe let be 42 To quench the fire of Anguish in some Eye 78 The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes 62 About THE SECRET quick about it Friend 64 Running Quicksilver like eludes your Pains 86 Kindle to Love or Wrath consume me quite 109 Enregister or quite obliterate 96 And Fancy in an after Rage destroy 17 And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain 92 Of Ramazan ere the better Moon arose 45 And Lo the phantom Caravan has reached 114 And in your joyous Errand reach the Spot 82 What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read 73 A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest 30 And this was all the Harvest that I reaped 48 Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed 54 Scared by some After reckoning taen on trust 82 What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read 109 And make the stern Recorder otherwise 99 Methinks I might recover by and by 6 Red Wine the Nightingale cries to the Rose 21 I sometimes think that never blows so red 23 TODAY of past Regrets and future Fears 64 They change and perish allbut He remains 111 Remould it nearer to the Heart's Desire 88 What from his helpless Creature be repaid 41 Ah fill the Cup what boots it to repeat 7 The Winter Garment of Repentance fling 105 Indeed indeed Repentance oft before 35 And A blind Understanding Heaven replied 104 And sold my Reputation for a Song 112 And a young Moon requite us by and bye 87 A conscious Something to resent the Yoke 46 Tomorrows Tangle to itself resign 103 Whither resorting from the vernal Heat 24 And one by one crept silently to Rest 73 Tis but a Tent where takes his one day's Rest 68 One thing is certain and the rest is Lies 4 The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires 3 And once departed may return no more 37 Drink for once dead you never shall return 70 Not one returns to tell us of the Road 71 They told their fellows and to Sleep returned 74 And after many days my Soul returned 36 Nor Heaven with those eternal Signs revealed 108 One glimpse if dimly yet indeed revealed 71 The Revelations of Devout and Learned 4 Now the New Year reviving old Desires 27 Fools Your Reward is neither Here nor There 72 And naked on the Air of Heaven ride 78 But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes 20 I saw the solitary Ringdove there 5 And Jamshyd's Seven ringed Cup where no one knows 33 I rose and on the Throne of Saturn sate 71 Who rose before us and as Prophets burned 73 The Sultan rises and the dark Ferrash 113 The Moon of Heaven is rising once again 113 How oft hereafter rising shall she look 22 Fledges the River's Lip on which we lean 59 At last shall find you by the River brink 33 And many Knots unraveled by the Road 70 Not one returns to tell us of the Road 90 Beset the Road I was to wander in 106 And robbed me of my Robe of Honor well 106 And robbed me of my Robe of Honor well 35 Then to the rolling Heaven itself I cried 40 Down Mans successive Generations rolled 65 Immersed of Darkness round the Drama rolled 81 Rolls impotently on as Thou or I 110 Than drop by drop enlarge the Flood that rolls 110 Hoarser with Anguish as the Ages roll 109 Arrest the yet unfolded Roll of Fate 25 And we that now make merry in the Room 5 Iram indeed is gone with all his Rose 6 Red Wine the Nightingale cries to the Rose 9 Morning a thousand Roses brings you say 9 Yes but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday 9 And this first Summer Month that brings the Rose 15 Look to the Rose that blows about us Lo 21 The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled 105 And then and then came Spring and Rose in hand 107 Alas that Spring should vanish with the Rose 24 Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before 57 Round which we Phantom Figures come and go 65 Immersed of Darkness round the Drama rolled 90 Thou will not with Predestined Evil round 92 With the clay Population round in Rows 92 With the clay Population round in Rows 5 But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields 49 For IS and IS NOT though with Rule and Line 13 Nor heed the Rumble of a distant Drum 8 Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run 64 Running Quicksilver like eludes your Pains 10 Let Rustum cry To Battle as he likes 47 Than sadden after none or bitter Fruit 28 Why all the Saints and Sages who discussed 74 And said Behold Myself am Heaven and Hell 95 Then said another Surely not in vain 96 Another said Why neer a peevish Boy 98 Why said another Some there are who tell 99 Then said another with a long drawn Sigh 28 Why all the Saints and Sages who discussed 29 Doctor and Saint and heard great Argument 60 The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has poured 114 And when like her oh Saki you shall pass 29 Came out by the same Door as in I went 113 Through this same Garden after me in vain 26 Sans Wine sans Song sans Singer and sans End 33 I rose and on the Throne of Saturn sate 40 Of such a Clod of saturated Earth 33 I rose and on the Throne of Saturn sate 9 Morning a thousand Roses brings you say 15 Laughing she says into the World I blow 19 They say the Lion and the Lizard keep 62 A Hair they say divides the False and True 63 A Hair they say divides the False and True 67 Ah but my Computations People say 54 Scared by some After reckoning taen on trust 28 Are scatterd and their Mouths are stopt with Dust 52 Scatters and slays with his enchanted Sword 114 Among the Guests star scattered on the Grass 107 That Youth's sweet scented Manuscript should close 111 To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire 28 Like foolish Prophets forth their Works to Scorn 110 Better oh better cancel from the Scroll 36 Earth could not answer nor the Seas that mourn 48 I made a Second Marriage in my House 62 About THE SECRET quick about it Friend 37 I leaned the secret Well of Life to learn 64 Whose secret Presence through Creations veins 51 The Two and Seventy jarring Sects confute 20 I saw the solitary Ringdove there 34 There was the Veil through which I could not see 30 With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow 82 And then of the Last Harvest sowed the Seed 100 One spied the little Crescent all were seeking 106 One half so precious as the Goods they sell 87 What out of senseless Nothing to provoke 74 I sent my Soul through the Invisible 16 The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon 45 The Nothing it set out from Oh make haste 53 And if a Curse why then Who set it there 5 And Jamshyd's Seven ringed Cup where no one knows 23 Myself with Yesterday's Seven thousand Years 33 Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate 51 The Two and Seventy jarring Sects confute 57 Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow show 75 And Hell the Shadow of a Soul on fire 97 What did the Hand then of the Potter shake 9 Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away 14 What for ourselves who know not if we shall 37 Drink for once dead you never shall return 59 At last shall find you by the River brink 59 Forth to your Lips to quaff you shall not shrink 61 Oh but the long long while the World shall last 66 Tomorrow when You shall be You no more 75 So late emergd from shall so soon expire 76 In Hell whose Fires thyself shall feed in turn 79 Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line 82 What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read 85 That shall unlock the Door he howls without 96 Shall He that made the Vessel in pure Love 102 Of Perfume shall fling up into the Air 102 But shall be overtaken unaware 103 Shall Old Acquaintance Old Acquaintance greet 113 How oft hereafter rising shall she look 114 And when like her oh Saki you shall pass 104 Have drowned my Honour in a shallow Cup 58 Thou shalt be Nothing thou shalt not be less 72 Ist not a shame Ist not a shame for him 50 Came stealing through the Dusk an Angel Shape 64 Taking all shapes from Mah to Mahi and 93 Shapes of all Sorts and Sizes great and small 95 That He who subtly wrought me into Shape 111 Would not we shatter it to bits and then 15 Laughing she says into the World I blow 20 And Coo coo coo she cried and Coo coo coo 113 How oft hereafter rising shall she look 103 To shed his Blossom over head and feet 92 In that old Potters Shop I stood alone 49 Of all that one should care to fathom I 53 A Blessing we should use it should we not 60 Account should lose or know the Type no more 95 Should stamp me back to common Earth again 107 Alas that Spring should vanish with the Rose 107 That Youth's sweet scented Manuscript should close 50 Bearing a Vessel on his Shoulder and 84 Over the Shoulders of the flaming Foal 100 Hark to the Porter's Shoulder knot a-creaking 3 The Tavern shouted Open then the Door 57 Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow show 59 Forth to your Lips to quaff you shall not shrink 101 So bury me by some sweet Garden side 13 Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come 99 Then said another with a long drawn Sigh 36 Nor Heaven with those eternal Signs revealed 83 Tomorrow's Silence Triumph or Despair 97 None answered this but after Silence spake 24 And one by one crept silently to Rest 15 At once the silken Tassel of my Purse 90 Enmesh me and impute my Fall to Sin 91 For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man 26 Sans Wine sans Song sans Singer and sans End 12 Beside me singing in the Wilderness 107 The Nightingale that in the Branches sang 63 Yes and a single Alif were the Clue 93 Shapes of all Sorts and Sizes great and small 2 Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky 81 And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky 112 With Age and Fast is fainting from the Sky 11 Where name of Slave and Sultan is forgot 52 Scatters and slays with his enchanted Sword 77 Hither and thither moves and mates and slays 19 Stamps o'er his Head but cannot break his Sleep 71 Are all but Stories which awoke from Sleep 71 They told their fellows and to Sleep returned 36 And hidden by the sleeve of Night and Morn 46 The Cypress slender Minister of Wine 41 How Time is slipping underneath our Feet 80 That none can slip nor break nor overreach 93 Shapes of all Sorts and Sizes great and small 91 And who with Eden didst devise the Snake 53 Blaspheme the twisted Tendril as Snare 102 That even my buried Ashes such a Snare 97 They sneer at me for leaning all awry 16 Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face 21 I sometimes think that never blows so red 28 Of the Two Worlds so learnedly are thrust 59 So when the Angel of the darker Drink 67 If so by striking from the Calendar 72 So long in this Clay Suburb to abide 75 So late emergd from shall so soon expire 89 Would kick so poor a Coward from the Place 100 So while the Vessels one by one were speaking 101 So bury me by some sweet Garden side 104 Indeed the Idols I have loved so long 106 One half so precious as the Goods they sell 105 I swore but was I sober when I swore 43 Do you twin Offspring of the Soil till Heaven 104 And sold my Reputation for a Song 20 I saw the solitary Ringdove there 4 The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires 21 The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled 21 Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head 27 And those that after some Tomorrow stare 34 Some little talk awhile of Me and Thee 42 To quench the fire of Anguish in some Eye 54 Scared by some After reckoning taen on trust 54 Or lured with Hope of some Diviner Drink 56 And in some corner of the Hubbub couchd 74 Some Letter of that Afterlife to spell 101 So bury me by some sweet Garden side 109 Would but some winged Angel ere too late 13 Some for the Glories of This World and some 24 Lo some we loved the loveliest and best 93 And some loquacious Vessels were and some 94 Some could articulate while others not 98 Why said another Some there are who tell 87 A conscious Something to resent the Yoke 21 I sometimes think that never blows so red 26 Sans Wine sans Song sans Singer and sans End 104 And sold my Reputation for a Song 75 So late emergd from shall so soon expire 52 Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul 88 And cannot answer Oh the sorry Trade 111 To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire 93 Shapes of all Sorts and Sizes great and small 4 The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires 52 Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul 59 And offering his Cup invite your Soul 72 Why if the Soul can fling the Dust aside 74 I sent my Soul through the Invisible 74 And after many days my Soul returned 75 And Hell the Shadow of a Soul on fire 84 In my predestined Plot of Dust and Soul 110 Of Universe one luckless Human Soul 11 That just divides the Desert from the sown 30 With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow 82 And then of the Last Harvest sowed the Seed 62 Would you that spangle of Existence spend 97 None answered this but after Silence spake 100 So while the Vessels one by one were speaking 74 Some Letter of that Afterlife to spell 26 Ah make the most of what we may yet spend 62 Would you that spangle of Existence spend 14 Were it not Folly Spider like to spin 14 Were it not Folly Spider like to spin 114 And in your joyous Errand reach the Spot 48 And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse 7 Come fill the Cup and in the Fire of Spring 105 And then and then came Spring and Rose in hand 107 Alas that Spring should vanish with the Rose 22 From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen 108 To which the fainting Traveller might spring 108 As springs the trampled Herbage of the Field 100 One spied the little Crescent all were seeking 67 Have squared the Year to human Compass eh 19 Stamps o'er his Head but cannot break his Sleep 95 Should stamp me back to common Earth again 3 And as the Cock crew those who stood before 55 Are in the Prophet's Paradise to stand 92 In that old Potters Shop I stood alone 93 That stood along the floor and by the wall 1 Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight 114 Among the Guests star scattered on the Grass 27 And those that after some Tomorrow stare 84 I tell Thee this When starting from the Goal 3 You know how little while we have to stay 42 For Earth to drink of but may steal below 50 Came stealing through the Dusk an Angel Shape 109 And make the stern Recorder otherwise 5 And still a Garden by the Water blows 5 But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields 1 Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight 28 Are scatterd and their Mouths are stopt with Dust 40 And has not such a Story from of Old 71 Are all but Stories which awoke from Sleep 70 Strange is it not that of the Myriads who 94 And strange to tell among that Earthen Lot 67 If so by striking from the Calendar 73 Strikes and prepares it for another Guest 78 But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes 85 The Vine had struck a Fibre which about 11 With me along the strip of Herbage strown 11 With me along the strip of Herbage strown 69 Have loosely strung the Jewel of Good Deed 66 But if in vain down on the stubborn Floor 35 Her little Children stumbling in the Dark 95 My Substance from the common Earth was taen 51 The subtle Alchemist that in a Trice 95 That He who subtly wrought me into Shape 72 So long in this Clay Suburb to abide 40 Down Mans successive Generations rolled 17 Alike to no such aureate Earth are turned 40 And has not such a Story from of Old 40 Of such a Clod of saturated Earth 102 That even my buried Ashes such a Snare 94 And suddenly one more impatient cried 88 Sue for a Debt we never did contract 112 Be of Good Cheer the sullen Month will die 1 The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light 11 Where name of Slave and Sultan is forgot 18 How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp 73 A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest 73 The Sultan rises and the dark Ferrash 9 And this first Summer Month that brings the Rose 25 They left and Summer dresses in new Bloom 57 Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun 43 As then the Tulip for her wonted Sup 10 Or Hatim Tai cry Supper heed them not 95 Then said another Surely not in vain 4 Puts out and Jesus from the Ground suspires 89 I swear I will not call Injustice Grace 105 I swore but was I sober when I swore 8 Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run 41 Why fret about them if TODAY be sweet 101 So bury me by some sweet Garden side 107 That Youth's sweet scented Manuscript should close 52 Scatters and slays with his enchanted Sword 54 Scared by some After reckoning taen on trust 95 My Substance from the common Earth was taen 10 Or Hatim Tai cry Supper heed them not 9 Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away 13 Ah take the Cash and let the Promise go 38 How many Kisses might it take and give 48 And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse 64 Taking all shapes from Mah to Mahi and 73 Tis but a Tent where takes his one day's Rest 91 Is blackened Mans Forgiveness give and take 34 Some little talk awhile of Me and Thee 93 Listened perhaps but never talked at all 46 Tomorrows Tangle to itself resign 15 At once the silken Tassel of my Purse 45 A Moment's Halt a momentary Taste 50 He bid me taste of it and twas the Grape 2 I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry 3 The Tavern shouted Open then the Door 50 And lately by the Tavern Door agape 86 One Glimpse of It within the Tavern caught 89 Not one Good Fellow of the Tavern but 76 Why who art Thou to teach and He to learn 79 Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it 15 Tear and its Treasure on the Garden throw 105 My threadbare Penitence apieces tore 70 Not one returns to tell us of the Road 71 They told their fellows and to Sleep returned 84 I tell Thee this When starting from the Goal 94 And strange to tell among that Earthen Lot 98 Why said another Some there are who tell 86 Better than in the Temple lost outright 22 And this delightful Herb whose tender Green 53 Blaspheme the twisted Tendril as Snare 73 Tis but a Tent where takes his one day's Rest 89 Nay but for terror of his wrathful Face 47 Than sadden after none or bitter Fruit 86 Better than in the Temple lost outright 110 Than drop by drop enlarge the Flood that rolls 1 Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight 6 That yellow Cheek of hers to incarnadine 9 And this first Summer Month that brings the Rose 11 That just divides the Desert from the sown 15 Look to the Rose that blows about us Lo 19 And Bahram that great Hunter the Wild Ass 20 The Palace that to Heaven his Pillars threw 21 I sometimes think that never blows so red 21 That every Hyacinth the Garden wears 23 Ah my Beloved fill the Cup that clears 24 That Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest 25 And we that now make merry in the Room 27 And those that after some Tomorrow stare 30 And this was all the Harvest that I reaped 36 Earth could not answer nor the Seas that mourn 38 I think the Vessel that with fugitive 42 And not a Drop that from our Cups we throw 47 Of This and That Endeavor and Dispute 49 Of all that one should care to fathom I 51 The Grape that can with Logic absolute 51 The subtle Alchemist that in a Trice 52 That all the misbelieving and black Horde 56 Make Game of that which makes as much of Thee 60 The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has poured 62 Would you that spangle of Existence spend 68 The Flower that once is blown for ever dies 69 That One for Two I never did misread 70 Strange is it not that of the Myriads who 74 Some Letter of that Afterlife to spell 78 And he that tossed Thee down into the Field 80 That none can slip nor break nor overreach 81 And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky 85 That shall unlock the Door he howls without 92 In that old Potters Shop I stood alone 93 That stood along the floor and by the wall 94 And strange to tell among that Earthen Lot 95 That He who subtly wrought me into Shape 96 Shall He that made the Vessel in pure Love 102 That even my buried Ashes such a Snare 103 Under the Branch that leans above the Wall 107 Alas that Spring should vanish with the Rose 107 That Youth's sweet scented Manuscript should close 107 The Nightingale that in the Branches sang 110 Than drop by drop enlarge the Flood that rolls 1 AWAKE for Morning in the Bowl of Night 1 Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight 1 And Lo the Hunter of the East has caught 1 The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light 2 Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky 2 I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry 2 Awake my Little ones and fill the Cup 3 And as the Cock crew those who stood before 3 The Tavern shouted Open then the Door 4 Now the New Year reviving old Desires 4 The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires 4 Where the White Hand Of Moses on the Bough 4 Puts out and Jesus from the Ground suspires 5 But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields 5 And still a Garden by the Water blows 6 Red Wine the Nightingale cries to the Rose 7 Come fill the Cup and in the Fire of Spring 7 The Winter Garment of Repentance fling 7 The Bird of Time has but a little way 7 To fly and Lo the Bird is on the Wing 8 Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run 8 The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop 8 The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one 9 Yes but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday 9 And this first Summer Month that brings the Rose 10 But come with old Khayyam and leave the Lot 11 With me along the strip of Herbage strown 11 That just divides the Desert from the sown 12 A Book of Verses underneath the Bough 12 Beside me singing in the Wilderness 13 Some for the Glories of This World and some 13 Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come 13 Ah take the Cash and let the Promise go 13 Nor heed the Rumble of a distant Drum 14 The Thread of present Life away to win 14 Breathe out the very Breath we now breathe in 15 Look to the Rose that blows about us Lo 15 Laughing she says into the World I blow 15 At once the silken Tassel of my Purse 15 Tear and its Treasure on the Garden throw 16 The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon 16 Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face 17 And those who husbanded the Golden Grain 17 And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain 19 They say the Lion and the Lizard keep 19 The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep 19 And Bahram that great Hunter the Wild Ass 20 The Palace that to Heaven his Pillars threw 20 And Kings the Forehead on his Threshold drew 20 I saw the solitary Ringdove there 21 The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled 21 That every Hyacinth the Garden wears 22 Fledges the River's Lip on which we lean 23 Ah my Beloved fill the Cup that clears 24 Lo some we loved the loveliest and best 25 And we that now make merry in the Room 25 Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth 26 Ah make the most of what we may yet spend 26 Before we too into the Dust descend 27 A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries 28 Why all the Saints and Sages who discussed 28 Of the Two Worlds so learnedly are thrust 29 Came out by the same Door as in I went 30 With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow 30 And this was all the Harvest that I reaped 31 And out of it as Wind along the Waste 32 The Memory of this Impertinence 33 Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate 33 I rose and on the Throne of Saturn sate 33 And many Knots unraveled by the Road 33 But not the Master Knot of Human Fate 34 There was the Veil through which I could not see 34 There was the Door to which I found no Key 35 Then to the rolling Heaven itself I cried 35 Her little Children stumbling in the Dark 36 Earth could not answer nor the Seas that mourn 36 And hidden by the sleeve of Night and Morn 37 Then to the Lip of this poor earthen Urn 37 I leaned the secret Well of Life to learn 38 I think the Vessel that with fugitive 38 And merry make and the cold Lip I kissd 39 For in the Marketplace one Dusk of Day 39 I watched the Potter thumping his wet Clay 40 Cast by the Maker into human Mould 41 Ah fill the Cup what boots it to repeat 42 To quench the fire of Anguish in some Eye 43 As then the Tulip for her wonted Sup 43 Do you twin Offspring of the Soil till Heaven 44 The waving Cypress in your Arms enlace 44 Before the Mother back into her Arms 45 Of Being from the Well amid the Waste 45 And Lo the phantom Caravan has reached 45 The Nothing it set out from Oh make haste 46 And lose your Fingers in the Tresses of 46 The Cypress slender Minister of Wine 47 Waste not your Hour nor in the vain Pursuit 47 Better be merry with the fruitful Grape 48 And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse 50 And lately by the Tavern Door agape 50 Came stealing through the Dusk an Angel Shape 50 He bid me taste of it and twas the Grape 51 The Grape that can with Logic absolute 51 The Two and Seventy jarring Sects confute 51 The subtle Alchemist that in a Trice 52 The mighty Mahmud the victorious Lord 52 That all the misbelieving and black Horde 52 Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul 53 Why be this Juice the growth of God who dare 53 Blaspheme the twisted Tendril as Snare 54 I must abjure the Balm of Life I must 54 To fill the Cup when crumbled into Dust 55 If but the Vine and Love abjuring Band 55 Are in the Prophet's Paradise to stand 55 Alack I doubt the Prophet's Paradise 55 Were empty as the hollow of ones Hand 56 And in some corner of the Hubbub couchd 56 But leave the Wise to wrangle and with me 56 The Quarrel of the Universe let be 57 Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun 58 And if the Wine you drink the Lip you press 58 End in the Nothing all Things end in Yes 59 So when the Angel of the darker Drink 59 At last shall find you by the River brink 60 Account should lose or know the Type no more 60 The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has poured 61 Oh but the long long while the World shall last 61 When You and I behind the Veil are past 62 About THE SECRET quick about it Friend 62 A Hair they say divides the False and True 63 A Hair they say divides the False and True 63 Yes and a single Alif were the Clue 63 Could you but find it to the Treasure house 63 And peradventure to THE MASTER too 65 A moment guessd then back behind the Fold 65 Immersed of Darkness round the Drama rolled 65 Which for the Pastime of Eternity 66 But if in vain down on the stubborn Floor 67 Have squared the Year to human Compass eh 67 If so by striking from the Calendar 68 One thing is certain and the rest is Lies 68 The Flower that once is blown for ever dies 69 Have loosely strung the Jewel of Good Deed 70 Strange is it not that of the Myriads who 70 Before us passed the Door of Darkness through 70 Not one returns to tell us of the Road 71 The Revelations of Devout and Learned 72 Why if the Soul can fling the Dust aside 72 And naked on the Air of Heaven ride 73 A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest 73 The Sultan rises and the dark Ferrash 74 I sent my Soul through the Invisible 75 Heaven but the Vision of fulfilled Desire 75 And Hell the Shadow of a Soul on fire 75 Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves 77 And one by one back in the Closet lays 78 The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes 78 But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes 78 And he that tossed Thee down into the Field 79 The Moving Finger writes and having writ 81 And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky 82 With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead 82 And then of the Last Harvest sowed the Seed 82 Yea the first Morning of Creation wrote 82 What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read 84 I tell Thee this When starting from the Goal 84 Over the Shoulders of the flaming Foal 85 The Vine had struck a Fibre which about 85 If clings my Being let the Dervish flout 85 That shall unlock the Door he howls without 86 And this I know whether the one True Light 86 One Glimpse of It within the Tavern caught 86 Better than in the Temple lost outright 87 A conscious Something to resent the Yoke 88 And cannot answer Oh the sorry Trade 89 Not one Good Fellow of the Tavern but 89 Would kick so poor a Coward from the Place 90 Beset the Road I was to wander in 91 And who with Eden didst devise the Snake 91 For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man 92 Listen again One Evening at the Close 92 Of Ramazan ere the better Moon arose 92 With the clay Population round in Rows 93 That stood along the floor and by the wall 94 Who is the Potter pray and who the Pot 95 My Substance from the common Earth was taen 96 Would break the Bowl from which he drank in Joy 96 Shall He that made the Vessel in pure Love 97 What did the Hand then of the Potter shake 98 The luckless Pots he marred in making Pish 99 But fill me with the old familiar Juice 100 So while the Vessels one by one were speaking 100 One spied the little Crescent all were seeking 100 Hark to the Porter's Shoulder knot a-creaking 101 Ah with the Grape my fading Life provide 101 And wash my Body whence the Life has died 102 Of Perfume shall fling up into the Air 103 Whither resorting from the vernal Heat 103 Under the Branch that leans above the Wall 104 Indeed the Idols I have loved so long 106 And much as Wine has played the Infidel 106 I often wonder what the Vintners buy 106 One half so precious as the Goods they sell 107 Alas that Spring should vanish with the Rose 107 The Nightingale that in the Branches sang 108 Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield 108 To which the fainting Traveller might spring 108 As springs the trampled Herbage of the Field 109 Arrest the yet unfolded Roll of Fate 109 And make the stern Recorder otherwise 110 Better oh better cancel from the Scroll 110 Than drop by drop enlarge the Flood that rolls 110 Hoarser with Anguish as the Ages roll 111 Re mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire 112 Be of Good Cheer the sullen Month will die 112 Look how the Old one meagre bent and wan 112 With Age and Fast is fainting from the Sky 113 The Moon of Heaven is rising once again 114 Among the Guests star scattered on the Grass 114 And in your joyous Errand reach the Spot 34 Some little talk awhile of Me and Thee 34 There was and then no more of Thee and Me 56 Make Game of that which makes as much of Thee 78 And he that tossed Thee down into the Field 84 I tell Thee this When starting from the Goal 16 The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon 24 That Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest 24 Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before 28 Like foolish Prophets forth their Works to Scorn 28 Are scatterd and their Mouths are stopt with Dust 36 In flowing Purple of their Lord forlorn 71 They told their fellows and to Sleep returned 10 Or Hatim Tai cry Supper heed them not 30 With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow 41 Why fret about them if TODAY be sweet 76 How long be crying Mercy on them God 3 The Tavern shouted Open then the Door 34 There was and then no more of Thee and Me 35 Then to the rolling Heaven itself I cried 37 Then to the Lip of this poor earthen Urn 43 As then the Tulip for her wonted Sup 53 And if a Curse why then Who set it there 58 Then fancy while Thou art Thou art but what 65 A moment guessd then back behind the Fold 66 You gaze Today while You are You how then 82 And then of the Last Harvest sowed the Seed 95 Then said another Surely not in vain 97 What did the Hand then of the Potter shake 99 Then said another with a long drawn Sigh 100 And then they jogged each other Brother Brother 105 And then and then came Spring and Rose in hand 111 Would not we shatter it to bits and then 20 I saw the solitary Ringdove there 27 Fools Your Reward is neither Here nor There 34 There was the Veil through which I could not see 34 There was the Door to which I found no Key 34 There was and then no more of Thee and Me 42 There hidden far beneath and long ago 53 And if a Curse why then Who set it there 98 Why said another Some there are who tell 19 They say the Lion and the Lizard keep 25 They left and Summer dresses in new Bloom 62 A Hair they say divides the False and True 63 A Hair they say divides the False and True 64 They change and perish allbut He remains 71 They told their fellows and to Sleep returned 80 Of what they will and what they will not each 82 With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead 84 Of Heaven Parwin and Mushtara they flung 97 They sneer at me for leaning all awry 100 And then they jogged each other Brother Brother 106 One half so precious as the Goods they sell 58 End in the Nothing all Things end in Yes 68 One thing at least is certain This Life flies 68 One thing is certain and the rest is Lies 69 Let this one Thing for my Atonement plead 111 To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire 18 Think in this battered Caravanserai 21 I sometimes think that never blows so red 38 I think the Vessel that with fugitive 9 And this first Summer Month that brings the Rose 13 Some for the Glories of This World and some 18 Think in this battered Caravanserai 22 And this delightful Herb whose tender Green 30 And this was all the Harvest that I reaped 31 Into this Universe and Why not knowing 32 The Memory of this Impertinence 37 Then to the Lip of this poor earthen Urn 47 Of This and That Endeavor and Dispute 53 Why be this Juice the growth of God who dare 68 One thing at least is certain This Life flies 69 Let this one Thing for my Atonement plead 72 So long in this Clay Suburb to abide 83 Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare 84 I tell Thee this When starting from the Goal 86 And this I know whether the one True Light 97 None answered this but after Silence spake 111 To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire 113 Through this same Garden after me in vain 77 Hither and thither moves and mates and slays 3 And as the Cock crew those who stood before 17 And those who husbanded the Golden Grain 17 And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain 27 Alike for those who for Today prepare 27 And those that after some Tomorrow stare 76 Oh Thou who burnst in Heart for those who burn 36 Nor Heaven with those eternal Signs revealed 12 A Jug of Wine a Loaf of Bread and Thou 58 Then fancy while Thou art Thou art but what 58 Thou shalt be Nothing thou shalt not be less 76 Oh Thou who burnst in Heart for those who burn 76 Why who art Thou to teach and He to learn 81 Rolls impotently on as Thou or I 90 Oh Thou who didst with Pitfall and with Gin 90 Thou will not with Predestined Evil round 91 Oh Thou who Man of baser Earth didst make 111 Ah Love could thou and I with Fate conspire 49 For IS and IS NOT though with Rule and Line 4 The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires 9 Morning a thousand Roses brings you say 23 Myself with Yesterday's Seven thousand Years 14 The Thread of present Life away to win 105 My threadbare Penitence apieces tore 98 Of one who threatens he will toss to Hell 68 Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise 20 And Kings the Forehead on his Threshold drew 11 And pity Mahmud on his golden Throne 33 I rose and on the Throne of Saturn sate 33 Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate 34 There was the Veil through which I could not see 50 Came stealing through the Dusk an Angel Shape 64 Whose secret Presence through Creations veins 70 Before us passed the Door of Darkness through 74 I sent my Soul through the Invisible 113 Through this same Garden after me in vain 15 Tear and its Treasure on the Garden throw 20 The Palace that to Heaven his Pillars threw 42 And not a Drop that from our Cups we throw 28 Of the Two Worlds so learnedly are thrust 39 I watched the Potter thumping his wet Clay 79 Moves on nor all thy Piety nor Wit 79 Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it 81 Lift not thy Hands to it for help for It 76 In Hell whose Fires thyself shall feed in turn 43 Do you twin Offspring of the Soil till Heaven 7 The Bird of Time has but a little way 24 That Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest 41 How Time is slipping underneath our Feet 77 Tis all a Chequerboard of Nights and Days 1 Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight 3 You know how little while we have to stay 4 The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires 6 Red Wine the Nightingale cries to the Rose 6 That yellow Cheek of hers to incarnadine 7 To fly and Lo the Bird is on the Wing 10 Let Rustum cry To Battle as he likes 13 Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come 14 Were it not Folly Spider like to spin 14 The Thread of present Life away to win 15 Look to the Rose that blows about us Lo 17 And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain 17 Alike to no such aureate Earth are turned 20 The Palace that to Heaven his Pillars threw 24 And one by one crept silently to Rest 25 Descend ourselves to make a Couch for whom 26 Dust into Dust and under Dust to lie 28 Like foolish Prophets forth their Works to Scorn 30 And with my own Hand laboured it to grow 32 Another and another Cup to drown 34 There was the Door to which I found no Key 35 Then to the rolling Heaven itself I cried 35 Asking What Lamp had Destiny to guide 37 Then to the Lip of this poor earthen Urn 37 I leaned the secret Well of Life to learn 37 And Lip to Lip it murmured While you live 41 Ah fill the Cup what boots it to repeat 42 For Earth to drink of but may steal below 42 To quench the fire of Anguish in some Eye 43 To Earth invert you like an empty Cup 46 Tomorrows Tangle to itself resign 48 And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse 49 Of all that one should care to fathom I 54 To fill the Cup when crumbled into Dust 55 Are in the Prophet's Paradise to stand 56 But leave the Wise to wrangle and with me 59 Forth to your Lips to quaff you shall not shrink 63 And peradventure to THE MASTER too 63 Could you but find it to the Treasure house 64 Taking all shapes from Mah to Mahi and 66 Of Earth and up to Heavens unopening Door 67 Have squared the Year to human Compass eh 70 Not one returns to tell us of the Road 70 Which to discover we must travel too 71 They told their fellows and to Sleep returned 72 So long in this Clay Suburb to abide 73 A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest 74 Some Letter of that Afterlife to spell 76 Why who art Thou to teach and He to learn 79 Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line 81 Lift not thy Hands to it for help for It 86 Kindle to Love or Wrath consume me quite 87 What out of senseless Nothing to provoke 87 A conscious Something to resent the Yoke 90 Beset the Road I was to wander in 90 Enmesh me and impute my Fall to Sin 94 And strange to tell among that Earthen Lot 95 Should stamp me back to common Earth again 98 Of one who threatens he will toss to Hell 100 Hark to the Porter's Shoulder knot a-creaking 103 To shed his Blossom over head and feet 108 To which the fainting Traveller might spring 111 To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire 111 Would not we shatter it to bits and then 111 Re mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire 23 TODAY of past Regrets and future Fears 27 Alike for those who for Today prepare 41 Why fret about them if TODAY be sweet 66 You gaze Today while You are You how then 23 Tomorrow Why Tomorrow I may be 27 And those that after some Tomorrow stare 41 Unborn TOMORROW and dead YESTERDAY 46 Tomorrows Tangle to itself resign 66 Tomorrow when You shall be You no more 67 Unborn Tomorrow and dead Yesterday 83 Tomorrow's Silence Triumph or Despair 39 And with its all obliterated Tongue 26 Before we too into the Dust descend 63 And peradventure to THE MASTER too 70 Which to discover we must travel too 109 Would but some winged Angel ere too late 78 And he that tossed Thee down into the Field 98 Of one who threatens he will toss to Hell 27 A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries 88 And cannot answer Oh the sorry Trade 108 As springs the trampled Herbage of the Field 51 Life's leaden Metal into Gold transmute 70 Which to discover we must travel too 108 To which the fainting Traveller might spring 15 Tear and its Treasure on the Garden throw 63 Could you but find it to the Treasure house 46 And lose your Fingers in the Tresses of 51 The subtle Alchemist that in a Trice 83 Tomorrow's Silence Triumph or Despair 62 A Hair they say divides the False and True 63 A Hair they say divides the False and True 86 And this I know whether the one True Light 102 As not a True Believer passing by 54 Scared by some After reckoning taen on trust 43 As then the Tulip for her wonted Sup 16 Turns Ashes or it prospers and anon 17 Alike to no such aureate Earth are turned 76 In Hell whose Fires thyself shall feed in turn 114 Where I made one turn down an empty Glass 1 The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light 98 He's a Good Fellow and twill all be Well 43 Do you twin Offspring of the Soil till Heaven 53 Blaspheme the twisted Tendril as Snare 16 Lighting a little Hour or two is gone 18 Abode his Hour or two and went his way 24 Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before 28 Of the Two Worlds so learnedly are thrust 51 The Two and Seventy jarring Sects confute 69 That One for Two I never did misread 60 Account should lose or know the Type no more 102 But shall be overtaken unaware 41 Unborn TOMORROW and dead YESTERDAY 67 Unborn Tomorrow and dead Yesterday 26 Dust into Dust and under Dust to lie 87 Of unpermitted Pleasure under Pain 103 Under the Branch that leans above the Wall 12 A Book of Verses underneath the Bough 41 How Time is slipping underneath our Feet 35 And A blind Understanding Heaven replied 109 Arrest the yet unfolded Roll of Fate 97 A Vessel of a more ungainly Make 31 Into this Universe and Why not knowing 56 The Quarrel of the Universe let be 110 Of Universe one luckless Human Soul 85 That shall unlock the Door he howls without 66 Of Earth and up to Heavens unopening Door 87 Of unpermitted Pleasure under Pain 33 And many Knots unraveled by the Road 22 From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen 17 As buried once Men want dug up again 33 Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate 43 Of Heavenly Vintage lifts her Chalice up 49 And UP AND DOWN by Logic I define 66 Of Earth and up to Heavens unopening Door 102 Of Perfume shall fling up into the Air 16 Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face 16 The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon 22 Ah lean upon it lightly for who knows 62 And upon what prithee does Life depend 69 If I myself upon a looser Creed 37 Then to the Lip of this poor earthen Urn 15 Look to the Rose that blows about us Lo 60 Millions of Bubbles like us and will pour 70 Before us passed the Door of Darkness through 70 Not one returns to tell us of the Road 71 Who rose before us and as Prophets burned 88 Pure Gold for what he lent us dross allayed 112 And a young Moon requite us by and bye 53 A Blessing we should use it should we not 47 Waste not your Hour nor in the vain Pursuit 66 But if in vain down on the stubborn Floor 95 Then said another Surely not in vain 113 Through this same Garden after me in vain 107 Alas that Spring should vanish with the Rose 34 There was the Veil through which I could not see 61 When You and I behind the Veil are past 64 Whose secret Presence through Creations veins 103 Whither resorting from the vernal Heat 12 A Book of Verses underneath the Bough 14 Breathe out the very Breath we now breathe in 38 I think the Vessel that with fugitive 50 Bearing a Vessel on his Shoulder and 93 And some loquacious Vessels were and some 96 Shall He that made the Vessel in pure Love 97 A Vessel of a more ungainly Make 100 So while the Vessels one by one were speaking 52 The mighty Mahmud the victorious Lord 5 But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields 48 And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse 55 If but the Vine and Love abjuring Band 85 The Vine had struck a Fibre which about 101 And in a Windingsheet of Vineleaf wrapt 24 That Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest 43 Of Heavenly Vintage lifts her Chalice up 106 I often wonder what the Vintners buy 75 Heaven but the Vision of fulfilled Desire 2 I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry 93 That stood along the floor and by the wall 103 Under the Branch that leans above the Wall 112 Look how the Old one meagre bent and wan 90 Beset the Road I was to wander in 113 Ah Moon of my Delight who knowst no Wane 17 As buried once Men want dug up again 2 Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky 30 And this was all the Harvest that I reaped 34 There was the Door to which I found no Key 34 There was the Veil through which I could not see 34 There was and then no more of Thee and Me 49 Was never deep in anything but Wine 90 Beset the Road I was to wander in 95 My Substance from the common Earth was taen 105 I swore but was I sober when I swore 79 Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it 101 And wash my Body whence the Life has died 45 Of Being from the Well amid the Waste 31 And out of it as Wind along the Waste 47 Waste not your Hour nor in the vain Pursuit 39 I watched the Potter thumping his wet Clay 5 And still a Garden by the Water blows 30 I came like Water and like Wind I go 31 Nor Whence like Water willy nilly flowing 44 The waving Cypress in your Arms enlace 7 The Bird of Time has but a little way 18 Abode his Hour or two and went his way 3 You know how little while we have to stay 14 What for ourselves who know not if we shall 14 Breathe out the very Breath we now breathe in 22 Fledges the River's Lip on which we lean 24 Lo some we loved the loveliest and best 25 And we that now make merry in the Room 25 Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth 26 Ah make the most of what we may yet spend 26 Before we too into the Dust descend 42 And not a Drop that from our Cups we throw 53 A Blessing we should use it should we not 57 Round which we Phantom Figures come and go 70 Which to discover we must travel too 81 And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky 81 Whereunder crawling coopt we live and die 88 Sue for a Debt we never did contract 111 Would not we shatter it to bits and then 21 That every Hyacinth the Garden wears 37 I leaned the secret Well of Life to learn 45 Of Being from the Well amid the Waste 98 He's a Good Fellow and twill all be Well 106 And robbed me of my Robe of Honor well 18 Abode his Hour or two and went his way 29 Came out by the same Door as in I went 12 Oh Wilderness were Paradise enow 14 Were it not Folly Spider like to spin 55 Were empty as the hollow of ones Hand 63 Yes and a single Alif were the Clue 93 And some loquacious Vessels were and some 100 So while the Vessels one by one were speaking 100 One spied the little Crescent all were seeking 39 I watched the Potter thumping his wet Clay 14 What for ourselves who know not if we shall 22 From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen 26 Ah make the most of what we may yet spend 32 What without asking hither hurried whence 35 Asking What Lamp had Destiny to guide 41 Ah fill the Cup what boots it to repeat 48 You know my Friends with what a brave Carouse 58 Then fancy while Thou art Thou art but what 62 And upon what prithee does Life depend 80 Of what they will and what they will not each 82 What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read 87 What out of senseless Nothing to provoke 88 What from his helpless Creature be repaid 88 Pure Gold for what he lent us dross allayed 97 What did the Hand then of the Potter shake 106 I often wonder what the Vintners buy 2 Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky 29 Myself when young did eagerly frequent 54 To fill the Cup when crumbled into Dust 59 So when the Angel of the darker Drink 61 When You and I behind the Veil are past 66 Tomorrow when You shall be You no more 84 I tell Thee this When starting from the Goal 105 I swore but was I sober when I swore 114 And when like her oh Saki you shall pass 31 Nor Whence like Water willy nilly flowing 32 What without asking hither hurried whence 83 Drink for you know not whence you came nor why 101 And wash my Body whence the Life has died 107 Ah whence and whither flown again who knows 4 Where the White Hand Of Moses on the Bough 5 And Jamshyd's Seven ringed Cup where no one knows 9 Yes but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday 11 Where name of Slave and Sultan is forgot 19 The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep 21 The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled 73 Tis but a Tent where takes his one day's Rest 77 Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays 83 Drink for you know not why you go nor where 114 Where I made one turn down an empty Glass 81 Whereunder crawling coopt we live and die 91 For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man 8 Whether at Naishapur or Babylon 8 Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run 86 And this I know whether the one True Light 22 Fledges the River's Lip on which we lean 34 There was the Veil through which I could not see 34 There was the Door to which I found no Key 56 Make Game of that which makes as much of Thee 57 Round which we Phantom Figures come and go 61 Which of our Coming and Departure heeds 65 Which for the Pastime of Eternity 70 Which to discover we must travel too 71 Are all but Stories which awoke from Sleep 75 Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves 85 The Vine had struck a Fibre which about 96 Would break the Bowl from which he drank in Joy 108 To which the fainting Traveller might spring 3 You know how little while we have to stay 61 Oh but the long long while the World shall last 37 And Lip to Lip it murmured While you live 58 Then fancy while Thou art Thou art but what 66 You gaze Today while You are You how then 94 Some could articulate while others not 100 So while the Vessels one by one were speaking 4 Where the White Hand Of Moses on the Bough 31 I know not Whither willy nilly blowing 32 And without asking whither hurried hence 103 Whither resorting from the vernal Heat 107 Ah whence and whither flown again who knows 3 And as the Cock crew those who stood before 14 What for ourselves who know not if we shall 17 And those who husbanded the Golden Grain 17 And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain 22 Ah lean upon it lightly for who knows 27 Alike for those who for Today prepare 28 Why all the Saints and Sages who discussed 53 Why be this Juice the growth of God who dare 53 And if a Curse why then Who set it there 70 Strange is it not that of the Myriads who 71 Who rose before us and as Prophets burned 76 Oh Thou who burnst in Heart for those who burn 76 Why who art Thou to teach and He to learn 90 Oh Thou who didst with Pitfall and with Gin 91 Oh Thou who Man of baser Earth didst make 91 And who with Eden didst devise the Snake 94 Who is the Potter pray and who the Pot 95 That He who subtly wrought me into Shape 98 Why said another Some there are who tell 98 Of one who threatens he will toss to Hell 107 Ah whence and whither flown again who knows 113 Ah Moon of my Delight who knowst no Wane 25 Descend ourselves to make a Couch for whom 18 Whose Doorways are alternate Night and Day 22 And this delightful Herb whose tender Green 57 Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun 64 Whose secret Presence through Creations veins 76 In Hell whose Fires thyself shall feed in turn 23 Tomorrow Why Tomorrow I may be 28 Why all the Saints and Sages who discussed 31 Into this Universe and Why not knowing 41 Why fret about them if TODAY be sweet 53 And if a Curse why then Who set it there 53 Why be this Juice the growth of God who dare 72 Why if the Soul can fling the Dust aside 76 Why who art Thou to teach and He to learn 83 Drink for you know not whence you came nor why 83 Drink for you know not why you go nor where 96 Another said Why neer a peevish Boy 98 Why said another Some there are who tell 19 And Bahram that great Hunter the Wild Ass 12 Beside me singing in the Wilderness 12 Oh Wilderness were Paradise enow 60 Millions of Bubbles like us and will pour 80 Of what they will and what they will not each 89 I swear I will not call Injustice Grace 90 Thou will not with Predestined Evil round 98 Of one who threatens he will toss to Hell 112 Be of Good Cheer the sullen Month will die 31 I know not Whither willy nilly blowing 31 Nor Whence like Water willy nilly flowing 14 The Thread of present Life away to win 17 And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain 30 I came like Water and like Wind I go 31 And out of it as Wind along the Waste 101 And in a Windingsheet of Vineleaf wrapt 6 High piping Pehlevi with Wine Wine Wine 6 Red Wine the Nightingale cries to the Rose 8 The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop 12 A Jug of Wine a Loaf of Bread and Thou 26 Sans Wine sans Song sans Singer and sans End 46 The Cypress slender Minister of Wine 49 Was never deep in anything but Wine 58 And if the Wine you drink the Lip you press 106 And much as Wine has played the Infidel 7 To fly and Lo the Bird is on the Wing 109 Would but some winged Angel ere too late 7 The Winter Garment of Repentance fling 30 With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow 56 But leave the Wise to wrangle and with me 79 Moves on nor all thy Piety nor Wit 5 Iram indeed is gone with all his Rose 6 High piping Pehlevi with Wine Wine Wine 8 Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run 10 But come with old Khayyam and leave the Lot 11 With me along the strip of Herbage strown 18 How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp 23 Myself with Yesterday's Seven thousand Years 28 Are scatterd and their Mouths are stopt with Dust 30 With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow 30 And with my own Hand laboured it to grow 36 Nor Heaven with those eternal Signs revealed 38 I think the Vessel that with fugitive 39 And with its all obliterated Tongue 46 Oh plagued no more with Human or Divine 47 Better be merry with the fruitful Grape 48 You know my Friends with what a brave Carouse 49 For IS and IS NOT though with Rule and Line 51 The Grape that can with Logic absolute 52 Scatters and slays with his enchanted Sword 54 Or lured with Hope of some Diviner Drink 56 But leave the Wise to wrangle and with me 77 Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays 82 With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead 90 Oh Thou who didst with Pitfall and with Gin 90 Thou will not with Predestined Evil round 91 And who with Eden didst devise the Snake 92 With the clay Population round in Rows 99 Then said another with a long drawn Sigh 99 My Clay with long oblivion is gone dry 99 But fill me with the old familiar Juice 101 Ah with the Grape my fading Life provide 107 Alas that Spring should vanish with the Rose 110 Hoarser with Anguish as the Ages roll 111 Ah Love could thou and I with Fate conspire 112 With Age and Fast is fainting from the Sky 2 I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry 44 Do you within your little Hour of Grace 86 One Glimpse of It within the Tavern caught 32 And without asking whither hurried hence 32 What without asking hither hurried whence 85 That shall unlock the Door he howls without 106 I often wonder what the Vintners buy 43 As then the Tulip for her wonted Sup 79 Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it 28 Like foolish Prophets forth their Works to Scorn 13 Some for the Glories of This World and some 15 Laughing she says into the World I blow 28 Of the Two Worlds so learnedly are thrust 61 Oh but the long long while the World shall last 16 The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon 62 Would you that spangle of Existence spend 89 Would kick so poor a Coward from the Place 96 Would break the Bowl from which he drank in Joy 108 Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield 109 Would but some winged Angel ere too late 111 Would not we shatter it to bits and then 56 But leave the Wise to wrangle and with me 101 And in a Windingsheet of Vineleaf wrapt 86 Kindle to Love or Wrath consume me quite 89 Nay but for terror of his wrathful Face 79 The Moving Finger writes and having writ 79 The Moving Finger writes and having writ 82 Yea the first Morning of Creation wrote 104 Have done my Credit in Men's Eye much Wrong 95 That He who subtly wrought me into Shape 82 Yea the first Morning of Creation wrote 4 Now the New Year reviving old Desires 67 Have squared the Year to human Compass eh 23 Myself with Yesterday's Seven thousand Years 6 That yellow Cheek of hers to incarnadine 9 Yes but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday 58 End in the Nothing all Things end in Yes 63 Yes and a single Alif were the Clue 9 Yes but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday 23 Myself with Yesterday's Seven thousand Years 41 Unborn TOMORROW and dead YESTERDAY 67 Unborn Tomorrow and dead Yesterday 83 Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare 26 Ah make the most of what we may yet spend 108 One glimpse if dimly yet indeed revealed 109 Arrest the yet unfolded Roll of Fate 5 But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields 108 Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield 87 A conscious Something to resent the Yoke 3 You know how little while we have to stay 9 Morning a thousand Roses brings you say 37 And Lip to Lip it murmured While you live 37 Drink for once dead you never shall return 43 Do you twin Offspring of the Soil till Heaven 43 To Earth invert you like an empty Cup 44 Do you within your little Hour of Grace 44 Fold and dissolve you in a last Embrace 48 You know my Friends with what a brave Carouse 58 And if the Wine you drink the Lip you press 59 At last shall find you by the River brink 59 Forth to your Lips to quaff you shall not shrink 61 When You and I behind the Veil are past 62 Would you that spangle of Existence spend 63 Could you but find it to the Treasure house 66 You gaze Today while You are You how then 66 Tomorrow when You shall be You no more 83 Drink for you know not whence you came nor why 83 Drink for you know not why you go nor where 114 And when like her oh Saki you shall pass 29 Myself when young did eagerly frequent 112 And a young Moon requite us by and bye 27 Fools Your Reward is neither Here nor There 44 Do you within your little Hour of Grace 44 The waving Cypress in your Arms enlace 46 And lose your Fingers in the Tresses of 47 Waste not your Hour nor in the vain Pursuit 59 And offering his Cup invite your Soul 59 Forth to your Lips to quaff you shall not shrink 60 And fear not lest Existence closing your 64 Running Quicksilver like eludes your Pains 114 And in your joyous Errand reach the Spot 107 That Youth's sweet scented Manuscript should close