Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. HAFIZ TO THE CUP-BEARER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poet's Biography First Line: Dear son, that out of the crowded footways of shiraz Last Line: A spell of life along the road together. Subject(s): Hafez (1326-1390); Hafiz (1326-139) | ||||||||
DEAR Son, that out of the crowded footways of Shiraz, With hesitant step emerging, Camest and laid thy life down at my feet, Faint and ashamed, like one by some divine wine vanquished: I take thy gift, so gracious and sparkling-clear, Thy naive offering, as of a simple Nature-child, Wondering, like one who sees a rose in winter blooming, or cypress 'mid a wilderness of rocks; Or finds among the marl and clay beneath his feet A ruby fair embeddedand stops and takes it. [The Earth, so dead and gross, and yet to points of finest light Still working in the silence of her unseen chambers! And thou, great common People, slavish still and brute and ignorant, in alley and tavern, Yet in thy rugged mass fair hearts of finest glow Infallibly condensing!] Come, son (since thou hast said it), out of all Shiraz Háfiz salutes thee comrade. Let us go A spell of life along the road together. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO HAFIZ by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH HAFIZ by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN AS A MOULD FOR SOME FAIR FORM by EDWARD CARPENTER THE STUPID OLD BODY by EDWARD CARPENTER TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: AFTER LONG AGES by EDWARD CARPENTER TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 1 by EDWARD CARPENTER TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. A MILITARY BAND by EDWARD CARPENTER TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. AMONG THE FERNS by EDWARD CARPENTER TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. AS A WOMAN OF A MAN by EDWARD CARPENTER TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. AS ONE WHO FROM A HIGH CLIFF by EDWARD CARPENTER TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. AS TO YOU O MOON by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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