<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=518325" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>O Cup Bearer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">OH Cup-bearer, set my glass afire<br>With the light of wine! oh minstrel, sing:<br>The world fulfilleth my heart's desire!<br>Reflected within the goblet's ring<br>I see the glow of my Love's red cheek,<br>And scant of wit, ye who fail to seek<br>The pleasures that wine alone can bring!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let not the blandishments be checked<br>That slender beauties lavish on me,<br>Until in the grace of the cypress decked,<br>My Love shall come like a ruddy pine-tree<br>He cannot perish whose heart doth hold<br>The life love breathes-though my days are told,<br>In the Book of the World lives my constancy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when the Day of Reckoning is here,<br>I fancy little will be the gain<br>That accrues to the Sheikh for his lawful cheer,<br>Or to me for the draught forbidden I drain.<br>The drunken eyes of my comrades shine,<br>And I too, stretching my hand to the wine,<br>On the neck of drunkenness loosen the rein.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh wind, if thou passest the garden close<br>Of my heart's dear master, carry for me<br>The message I send to him, wind that blows!<br>'Why hast thou thrust from thy memory<br>My hapless name?' breathe low in his ear;<br>'Knowest thou not that the day is near<br>When nor thou nor any shall think on me?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If with tears, oh Hafiz, thine eyes are wet,<br>Scatter them round thee like grain, and snare<br>The Bird of joy when it comes to thy net.<br>As the tulip shrinks from the cold night air,<br>So shrank my heart and quailed in the shade<br>Oh Song-bird Fortune, the toils are laid,<br>When shall thy bright wings lie pinioned there?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The heavens' green sea and the bark therein,<br>The slender bark of the crescent moon,<br>Are lost in thy bounty's radiant noon,<br>Vizir and pilgrim, Kawameddin!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Shams+al-Din+Hafiz">Shams al-Din Hafiz</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=518325" data-title="O Cup Bearer de Shams al-Din Hafiz" data-description="OH Cup-bearer, set my glass afire With the light of wine! oh minstrel, sing: The world fulfilleth my heart's desire! Reflected within the goblet's ring I see the glow of my Love's red cheek, And scant of wit, ye who fail to seek The pleasures that..."></div> </div> </div>

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