Couplet 1321 Although there be no fault in him, the sweetness of his loveHath power in me a fretful jealousy to moveExplanationAlthough my husband is free from defects, the way in which he embraces me is such as to make me feign dislike
Couplet 1322 My 'anger feigned' gives but a little pain;And when affection droops, it makes it bloom againExplanationHis love will increase though it may (at first seem to) fade through the short-lived distress caused by (my) dislike
Couplet 1323 Is there a bliss in any world more utterly divine,Than 'coyness' gives, when hearts as earth and water joinExplanationIs there a celestial land that can please like the feigned dislike of those whose union resembles that of earth and water?
Couplet 1324 'Within the anger feigned' that close love's tie doth bind,A weapon lurks, which quite breaks down my mindExplanationIn prolonged dislike after an embrace there is a weapon that can break my heart
Couplet 1325 Though free from fault, from loved one's tender armsTo be estranged a while hath its own special charmsExplanationThough free from defects, men feel pleased when they cannot embrace the delicate shoulders of those whom they love
Couplet 1326 'Tis sweeter to digest your food than 'tis to eat;In love, than union's self is anger feigned more sweetExplanationTo digest what has been eaten is more delightful than to eat more; likewise love is more delightful in dislike than intercourse
Couplet 1327 In lovers' quarrels, 'tis the one that first gives way,That in re-union's joy is seen to win the dayExplanation160 Those are conquerors whose dislike has been defeated and that is proved by the love (which
Couplet 1328 And shall we ever more the sweetness know of that embraceWith dewy brow; to which 'feigned anger' lent its piquant graceExplanationWill I enjoy once more through her dislike, the pleasure of that love that makes her forehead perspire?
Couplet 1329 Let her, whose jewels brightly shine, aversion feignThat I may still plead on, O night, prolong thy reignExplanationMay the bright-jewelled one feign dislike, and may the night be prolonged for me to implore her!
Couplet 1330 A 'feigned aversion' coy to pleasure gives a zest;The pleasure's crowned when breast is clasped to breastExplanationDislike adds delight to love; and a hearty embrace (thereafter) will add delight to dislike
Couplet 1311 From thy regard all womankind Enjoys an equal grace;O thou of wandering fickle mind, I shrink from thine embraceExplanationYou are given to prostitution; all those who are born as womankind enjoy you with their eyes in an ordinary way I will not embrace you
Couplet 1312 One day we silent sulked; he sneezed: The reason well I knew;He thought that I, to speak well pleased, Would say, 'Long life to you!'ExplanationWhen I continued to be sulky he sneezed and thought I would (then) wish him a long life
Couplet 1313 I wreathed with flowers one day my brow, The angry tempest lowers;She cries, 'Pray, for what woman now Do you put on your flowers?'ExplanationEven if I were adorned with a garland of branch-flowers, she would say I did so to show it to another woman
Couplet 1314 'I love you more than all beside,' 'T was thus I gently spoke;'What all, what all?' she instant cried; And all her anger wokeExplanationWhen I said I loved her more than any other woman, she said "more than others, yes, more than others," and remained sulky
Couplet 1315 'While here I live, I leave you not,' I said to calm her fearsShe cried, 'There, then, I read your thought'; And straight dissolved in tearsExplanationWhen I said I would never part from her in this life her eyes were filled with tears
Couplet 1316 'Each day I called to mind your charms,' 'O, then, you had forgot,'She cried, and then her opened arms, Forthwith embraced me notExplanationWhen I said I had remembered her, she said I had forgotten her and relaxing her embrace, began to feign dislike
Couplet 1317 She hailed me when I sneezed one day; But straight with anger seized,She cried; 'Who was the woman, pray, Thinking of whom you sneezed?'ExplanationWhen I sneezed she blessed me, but at once changed (her mind) and wept, asking, "At the thought of whom did you sneeze?"
Couplet 1318 And so next time I checked my sneeze; She forthwith wept and cried,(That woman difficult to please), 'Your thoughts from me you hide'ExplanationWhen I suppressed my sneezing, she wept saying, "I suppose you (did so) to hide from me your own people's remembrance of you"
Couplet 1319 I then began to soothe and coax, To calm her jealous mind;'I see', quoth she, 'to other folks How you are wondrous kindExplanation'I see', quoth she, 'to other folks How you are wondrous kind' Even when I try to remove her dislike, she is displeased and says, "This is the way you behave
Couplet 1320 I silent sat, but thought the more, And gazed on her Then sheCried out, 'While thus you eye me o'er, Tell me whose form you see'ExplanationEven when I look on her contemplating (her beauty), she is displeased and says, "With whose thought have you (thus) looked on my person?"
Couplet 1301 Be still reserved, decline his profferred love;A little while his sore distress we 'll proveExplanationLet us witness awhile his keen suffering; just feign dislike and embrace him not
Couplet 1302 A cool reserve is like the salt that seasons well the mess,Too long maintained, 'tis like the salt's excessExplanationA little dislike is like salt in proportion; to prolong it a little is like salt a little too much
Couplet 1303 'Tis heaping griefs on those whose hearts are grieved;To leave the grieving one without a fond embraceExplanationFor men not to embrace those who have feigned dislike is like torturing those already in agony
Couplet 1304 To use no kind conciliating art when lover grieves,Is cutting out the root of tender winding plant that droopsExplanationNot to reconcile those who have feigned dislike is like cutting a faded creeper at its root
Couplet 1305 Even to men of good and worthy mind, the petulanceOf wives with flowery eyes lacks not a lovely graceExplanationAn increased shyness in those whose eyes are like flowers is beautiful even to good and virtuous husbands
Couplet 1306 Love without hatred is ripened fruit;Without some lesser strife, fruit immatureExplanationSexual pleasure, without prolonged and short-lived dislike, is like too ripe, and unripe fruit
Couplet 1307 A lovers' quarrel brings its pain, when mind afraidAsks doubtful, 'Will reunion sweet be long delayed?'ExplanationThe doubt as to whether intercourse would take place soon or not, creates a sorrow (even) in feigned dislike
Couplet 1308 What good can grieving do, when none who loveAre there to know the grief thy soul enduresExplanationWhat avails sorrow when I am without a wife who can understand the cause of my sorrow?
Couplet 1309 Water is pleasant in the cooling shade;So coolness for a time with those we loveExplanationLike water in the shade, dislike is delicious only in those who love
Couplet 1310 Of her who leaves me thus in variance languishing,To think within my heart with love is fond desireExplanationIt is nothing but strong desire that makes her mind unite with me who can leave her to her own dislike
Couplet 1291 You see his heart is his aloneO heart, why not be all my ownExplanationO my soul! although you have seen how his soul stands by him, how is it you do not stand by me?
Couplet 1292 'Tis plain, my heart, that he 's estranged from thee;Why go to him as though he were not enemyExplanationO my soul! although you have known him who does not love me, still do you go to him, saying "he will not be displeased."
Couplet 1293 'The ruined have no friends, 'they say; and so, my heart,To follow him, at thy desire, from me thou dost departExplanationO my soul! do you follow him at pleasure under the belief that the ruined have no friends?
Couplet 1294 'See, thou first show offended pride, and then submit,' I bade;Henceforth such council who will share with thee my heartExplanationO my soul! you would not first seem sulky and then enjoy (him); who then would in future consult you about such things?
Couplet 1295 I fear I shall not gain, I fear to lose him when I gain;And thus my heart endures unceasing painExplanationMy soul fears when it is without him; it also fears when it is with him; it is subject to incessant sorrow
Couplet 1296 My heart consumes me when I ponder lone,And all my lover's cruelty bemoanExplanationMy mind has been (here) in order to eat me up (as it were) whenever I think of him in my solitude
Couplet 1297 Fall'n 'neath the sway of this ignoble foolish heart,Which will not him forget, I have forgotten shameExplanationI have even forgotten my modesty, having been caught in my foolish mind which is not dignified enough to forget him
Couplet 1298 If I contemn him, then disgrace awaits me evermore;My soul that seeks to live his virtues numbers o'erExplanationMy soul which clings to life thinks only of his (own) gain in the belief that it would be disgraceful for it to despise him
Couplet 1299 And who will aid me in my hour of grief,If my own heart comes not to my reliefExplanationWho would help me out of one's distress, when one's own soul refuses help to one?
Couplet 1300 A trifle is unfriendliness by aliens shown,When our own heart itself is not our ownExplanationIt is hardly possible for strangers to behave like relations, when one's own soul acts like a stranger
Couplet 1281 Gladness at the thought, rejoicing at the sight,Not palm-tree wine, but love, yields such delightExplanationTo please by thought and cheer by sight is peculiar, not to liquor but lust
Couplet 1282 When as palmyra tall, fulness of perfect love we gain,Distrust can find no place small as the millet grainExplanationIf women have a lust that exceeds even the measure of the palmyra fruit, they will not desire (to feign) dislike even as much as the millet
Couplet 1283 Although his will his only law, he lightly value me,My heart knows no repose unless my lord I seeExplanationThough my eyes disregard me and do what is pleasing to my husband, still will they not be satisfied unless they see him
Couplet 1284 My friend, I went prepared to show a cool disdain;My heart, forgetting all, could not its love restrainExplanationMy heart, forgetting all, could not its love restrain
Couplet 1285 The eye sees not the rod that paints it; nor can ISee any fault, when I behold my husband nighExplanationLike the eyes which see not the pencil that paints it, I cannot see my husband's fault (just) when I meet him
Couplet 1286 When him I see, to all his faults I 'm blind;But when I see him not, nothing but faults I findExplanationWhen I see my husband, I do not see any faults; but when I do not see him, I do not see anything but faults
Couplet 1287 As those of rescue sure, who plunge into the stream,So did I anger feign, though it must falsehood seemExplanationLike those who leap into a stream which they know will carry them off, why should a wife feign dislike which she knows cannot hold out long?
Couplet 1288 Though shameful ill it works, dear is the palm-tree wineTo drunkards; traitor, so to me that breast of thineExplanationO you rogue! your breast is to me what liquor is to those who rejoice in it, though it only gives them an unpleasant disgrace
Couplet 1289 Love is tender as an opening flower In season dueTo gain its perfect bliss is rapture known to fewExplanationSexual delight is more delicate than a flower, and few are those who understand its real nature
Couplet 1290 Her eye, as I drew nigh one day, with anger shone:By love o'erpowered, her tenderness surpassed my ownExplanationShe once feigned dislike in her eyes, but the warmth of her embrace exceeded my own
Couplet 1271 Thou hid'st it, yet thine eye, disdaining all restraint,Something, I know not, what, would utter of complaintExplanationThough you would conceal (your feelings), your painted eyes would not, for, transgressing (their bounds), they tell (me) something
Couplet 1272 The simple one whose beauty fills mine eye, whose shoulders curveLike bambu stem, hath all a woman's modest sweet reserveExplanationUnusually great is the female simplicity of your maid whose beauty fills my eyes and whose shoulders resemble the bamboo
Couplet 1273 As through the crystal beads is seen the thread on which they 're strungSo in her beauty gleams some thought cannot find a tongueExplanationThere is something that is implied in the beauty of this woman, like the thread that is visible in a garland of gems
Couplet 1274 As fragrance in the opening bud, some secret liesConcealed in budding smile of this dear damsel's eyesExplanationThere is something in the unmatured smile of this maid like the fragrance that is contained in an unblossomed bud
Couplet 1275 The secret wiles of her with thronging armlets decked,Are medicines by which my raising grief is checkedExplanationThe well-meant departure of her whose bangles are tight-fitting contains a remedy that can cure my great sorrow
Couplet 1276 While lovingly embracing me, his heart is only grieved:It makes me think that I again shall live of love bereavedExplanationThe embrace that fills me with comfort and gladness is capable of enduring (my former) sorrow and meditating on his want of love
Couplet 1277 My severance from the lord of this cool shore,My very armlets told me long beforeExplanationMy bracelets have understood before me the (mental) separation of him who rules the cool seashore
Couplet 1278 My loved one left me, was it yesterday?Days seven my pallid body wastes awayExplanationIt was but yesterday my lover departed (from me); and it is seven days since my complexion turned sallow
Couplet 1279 She viewed her tender arms, she viewed the armlets from them slid;She viewed her feet: all this the lady didExplanationShe looked at her bracelets, her tender shoulders, and her feet; this was what she did there (significantly)
Couplet 1280 To show by eye the pain of love, and for relief to pray,Is womanhood's most womanly device, men sayExplanationTo express their love-sickness by their eyes and resort to begging bespeaks more than ordinary female excellence
Couplet 1261 My eyes have lost their brightness, sight is dimmed; my fingers worn,With nothing on the wall the days since I was left forlornExplanationMy finger has worn away by marking (on the wall) the days he has been absent while my eyes have lost their lustre and begin to fail
Couplet 1262 O thou with gleaming jewels decked, could I forget for this one day,Henceforth these bracelets from my arms will slip, my beauty worn awayExplanationO you bright-jewelled maid, if I forget (him) today, my shoulders will lose their beauty even in the other life and make my bracelets loose
Couplet 1263 On victory intent, His mind sole company he went;And I yet life sustain And long to see his face againExplanationI still live by longing for the arrival of him who has gone out of love for victory and with valour as his guide
Couplet 1264 'He comes again, who left my side, and I shall taste love's joy,'-My heart with rapture swells, when thoughts like these my mind employExplanationMy heart is rid of its sorrow and swells with rapture to think of my absent lover returning with his love
Couplet 1265 O let me see my spouse again and sate these longing eyes!That instant from my wasted frame all pallor fliesExplanationMay I look on my lover till I am satisfied and thereafter will vanish the sallowness of my slender shoulders
Couplet 1266 O let my spouse but come again to me one day!I'll drink that nectar: wasting grief shall flee awayExplanationMay my husband return some day; and then will I enjoy (him) so as to destroy all this agonizing sorrow
Couplet 1267 Shall I draw back, or yield myself, or shall both mingled be,When he returns, my spouse, dear as these eyes to meExplanationOn the return of him who is as dear as my eyes, am I displeased or am I to embrace (him); or am I to do both?
Couplet 1268 O would my king would fight, o'ercome, devide the spoil;At home, to-night, the banquet spread should crown the toilExplanationLet the king fight and gain (victories); (but) let me be united to my wife and feast the evening
Couplet 1269 One day will seem like seven to those who watch and yearnFor that glad day when wanderers from afar returnExplanationTo those who suffer waiting for the day of return of their distant lovers one day is as long as seven days
Couplet 1270 What's my return, the meeting hour, the wished-for greeting worth,If she heart-broken lie, with all her life poured forthExplanationAfter (my wife) has died of a broken heart, what good will there be if she is to receive me, has received me, or has even embraced me?
Couplet 1251 Of womanly reserve love's axe breaks through the door,Barred by the bolt of shame beforeExplanationThe axe of lust can break the door of chastity which is bolted with the bolt of modesty
Couplet 1252 What men call love is the one thing of merciless power;It gives my soul no rest, e'en in the midnight hourExplanationEven at midnight is my mind worried by lust, and this one thing, alas! is without mercy
Couplet 1253 I would my love conceal, but like a sneezeIt shows itself, and gives no warning signExplanationI would conceal my lust, but alas, it yields not to my will but breaks out like a sneeze
Couplet 1254 In womanly reserve I deemed myself beyond assail;But love will come abroad, and casts away the veilExplanationI say I would be firm, but alas, my malady breaks out from its concealment and appears in public
Couplet 1255 The dignity that seeks not him who acts as foe,Is the one thing that loving heart can never knowExplanationThe dignity that would not go after an absent lover is not known to those who are sticken by love
Couplet 1256 My grief how full of grace, I pray you see!It seeks to follow him that hateth meExplanationThe sorrow I have endured by desiring to go after my absent lover, in what way is it excellent?
Couplet 1257 No sense of shame my gladdened mind shall prove,When he returns my longing heart to bless with loveExplanationI know nothing like shame when my beloved does from love (just) what is desired (by me)
Couplet 1258 The words of that deceiver, versed in every wily art,Are instruments that break through every guard of woman's heartExplanationAre not the enticing words of my trick-abounding roguish lover the weapon that breaks away my feminine firmness?
Couplet 1259 'I 'll shun his greeting'; saying thus with pride away I went:I held him in my arms, for straight I felt my heart relentExplanationI said I would feign dislike and so went (away); (but) I embraced him the moment I say my mind began to unite with him!
Couplet 1260 'We 'll stand aloof and then embrace': is this for them to say,Whose hearts are as the fat that in the blaze dissolves awayExplanationIs it possible for those whose hearts melt like fat in the fire to say they can feign a strong dislike and remain so?
Couplet 1241 My heart, canst thou not thinking of some med'cine tell,Not any one, to drive away this grief incurableExplanationO my soul, will you not think and tell me some medicine be it what it may, that can cure this incurable malady?
Couplet 1242 Since he loves not, thy smartIs folly, fare thee well my heartExplanationIs folly, fare thee well my heart!
Couplet 1243 What comes of sitting here in pining thought, O heart? He knowsNo pitying thought, the cause of all these wasting woesExplanationO my soul! why remain (here) and suffer thinking (of him)? There are no lewd thoughts (of you) in him who has caused you this disease of sorrow
Couplet 1244 O rid me of these eyes, my heart; for they,Longing to see him, wear my life awayExplanationO my soul! take my eyes also with you, (if not), these would eat me up (in their desire) to see him
Couplet 1245 O heart, as a foe, can I abandon utterlyHim who, though I long for him, longs not for meExplanationO my soul! can he who loves not though he is beloved, be forsaken saying he hates me (now)?
Couplet 1246 My heart, false is the fire that burns; thou canst not wrath maintain,If thou thy love behold, embracing, soothing all thy painExplanationO my soul! when you see the dear one who remove dislike by intercourse, you are displeased and continue to be so Nay, your displeasure is (simply) false
Couplet 1247 Or bid thy love, or bid thy shame depart;For me, I cannot bear them both, my worthy heartExplanationO my good soul, give up either lust or honour, as for me I can endure neither
Couplet 1248 Thou art befooled, my heart, thou followest him who flees from thee;And still thou yearning criest: 'He will nor pity show nor love to me.'ExplanationYou are a fool, O my soul! to go after my departed one, while you mourn that he is not kind enough to favour you
Couplet 1249 My heart! my lover lives within my mind;Roaming, whom dost thou think to findExplanationO my soul! to whom would you repair, while the dear one is within yourself?
Couplet 1250 If I should keep in mind the man who utterly renounces me,My soul must suffer further loss of dignityExplanationIf I retain in my heart him who has left me without befriending me, I shall lose even the (inward) beauty that remains
Couplet 1231 Thine eyes grown dim are now ashamed the fragrant flow'rs to see,Thinking on him, who wand'ring far, leaves us in miseryExplanationWhile we endure the unbearable sorrow, your eyes weep for him who is gone afar, and shun (the sight of) fragrant flowers
Couplet 1232 The eye, with sorrow wan, all wet with dew of tears,As witness of the lover's lack of love appearsExplanationThe discoloured eyes that shed tears profusely seem to betray the unkindness of our beloved
Couplet 1233 These withered arms, desertion's pangs abundantly display,That swelled with joy on that glad nuptial dayExplanationThe shoulders that swelled on the day of our union (now) seem to announce our separation clearly (to the public)
Couplet 1234 When lover went, then faded all their wonted charms,And armlets' golden round slips off from these poor wasted armsExplanationIn the absence of your consort, your shoulders having lost their former beauty and fulness, your bracelets of pure gold have become loose
Couplet 1235 These wasted arms, the bracelet with their wonted beauty gone,The cruelty declare of that most cruel oneExplanationThe (loosened) bracelets, and the shoulders from which the old beauty has faded, relate the cruelty of the pitiless one
Couplet 1236 I grieve, 'tis pain to me to hear him cruel chid,Because the armlet from my wasted arm has slidExplanationI am greatly pained to hear you call him a cruel man, just because your shoulders are reduced and your bracelets loosened
Couplet 1237 My heart! say ought of glory wilt thou gain,If to that cruel one thou of thy wasted arms complainExplanationCan you O my soul! gain glory by relating to the (so-called) cruel one the clamour of my fading shoulders?
Couplet 1238 One day the fervent pressure of embracing arms I checked,Grew wan the forehead of the maid with golden armlet deckedExplanationWhen I once loosened the arms that were in embrace, the forehead of the gold-braceleted women turned sallow
Couplet 1239 As we embraced a breath of wind found entrance there;The maid's large liquid eyes were dimmed with careExplanationWhen but a breath of breeze penetrated our embrace, her large cool eyes became sallow
Couplet 1240 The dimness of her eye felt sorrow now,Beholding what was done by that bright browExplanationWas it at the sight of what the bright forehead had done that the sallowness of her eyes became sad?
Couplet 1221 Thou art not evening, but a spear that doth devourThe souls of brides; farewell, thou evening hourExplanationLive, O you evening are you (the former) evening? No, you are the season that slays (married) women
Couplet 1222 Thine eye is sad; Hail, doubtful hour of eventide!Of cruel eye, as is my spouse, is too thy brideExplanationA long life to you, O dark evening! You are sightless Is your help-mate (also) as hard-hearted as mine
Couplet 1223 With buds of chilly dew wan evening's shade enclose;My anguish buds space and all my sorrow growsExplanationThe evening that (once) came in with trembling and dimness (now) brings me an aversion for life and increasing sorrow
Couplet 1224 When absent is my love, the evening hour descends,As when an alien host to field of battle wendsExplanationIn the absence of my lover, evening comes in like slayers on the field of slaughter
Couplet 1225 O morn, how have I won thy grace? thou bring'st reliefO eve, why art thou foe! thou dost renew my griefExplanationO eve, why art thou foe! thou dost renew my grief
Couplet 1226 The pangs that evening brings I never knew,Till he, my wedded spouse, from me withdrewExplanationPrevious to my husband's departure, I know not the painful nature of evening
Couplet 1227 My grief at morn a bud, all day an opening flower,Full-blown expands in evening hourExplanationThis malady buds forth in the morning, expands all day long and blossoms in the evening
Couplet 1228 The shepherd's pipe is like a murderous weapon, to my ear,For it proclaims the hour of ev'ning's fiery anguish nearExplanationThe shepherd's flute now sounds as a fiery forerunner of night, and is become a weapon that slays (me)
Couplet 1229 If evening's shades, that darken all my soul, extend;From this afflicted town will would of grief ascendExplanationWhen night comes on confusing (everyone's) mind, the (whole) town will lose its sense and be plunged in sorrow
Couplet 1230 This darkening eve, my darkling soul must perish utterly;Remembering him who seeks for wealth, but seeks not meExplanationMy (hitherto) unextinguished life is now lost in this bewildering night at the thought of him who has the nature of wealth
Couplet 1211 It came and brought to me, that nightly vision rare,A message from my love,- what feast shall I prepareExplanationWhere with shall I feast the dream which has brought me my dear one's messenger ?
Couplet 1212 If my dark, carp-like eye will close in sleep, as I implore,The tale of my long-suffering life I'll tell my loved one o'erExplanationIf my fish-like painted eyes should, at my begging, close in sleep, I could fully relate my sufferings to my lord
Couplet 1213 Him, who in waking hour no kindness shows,In dreams I see; and so my lifetime goesExplanationMy life lasts because in my dream I behold him who does not favour me in my waking hours
Couplet 1214 Some pleasure I enjoy when him who loves not meIn waking hours, the vision searches out and makes me seeExplanationThere is pleasure in my dream, because in it I seek and obtain him who does not visit me in my wakefulness
Couplet 1215 As what I then beheld in waking hour was sweet,So pleasant dreams in hour of sleep my spirit greetExplanationI saw him in my waking hours, and then it was pleasant; I see him just now in my dream, and it is (equally) pleasant
Couplet 1216 And if there were no waking hour, my loveIn dreams would never from my side removeExplanationWere there no such thing as wakefulness, my beloved (who visited me) in my dream would not depart from me
Couplet 1217 The cruel one, in waking hour, who all ungracious seems,Why should he thus torment my soul in nightly dreamsExplanationThe cruel one who would not favour me in my wakefulness, what right has he to torture me in my dreams?
Couplet 1218 And when I sleep he holds my form embraced;And when I wake to fill my heart makes hasteExplanationWhen I am asleep he rests on my shoulders, (but) when I awake he hastens into my soul
Couplet 1219 In dreams who ne'er their lover's form perceive,For those in waking hours who show no love will grieveExplanationThey who have no dear ones to behold in their dreams blame him who visits me not in my waking hours
Couplet 1220 They say, that he in waking hours has left me lone;In dreams they surely see him not,- these people of the town;ExplanationThe women of this place say he has forsaken me in my wakefulness I think they have not seen him visit me in my dreams
Couplet 1201 From thought of her unfailing gladness springs,Sweeter than palm-rice wine the joy love bringsExplanationSexuality is sweeter than liquor, because when remembered, it creates a most rapturous delight
Couplet 1202 How great is love! Behold its sweetness past belief!Think on the lover, and the spirit knows no griefExplanationEven to think of one's beloved gives one no pain Sexuality, in any degree, is always delightful
Couplet 1203 A fit of sneezing threatened, but it passed away;He seemed to think of me, but do his fancies strayExplanationI feel as if I am going to sneeze but do not, and (therefore) my beloved is about to think (of me) but does not
Couplet 1204 Have I a place within his heart!From mine, alas! he never doth departExplanationHe continues to abide in my soul, do I likewise abide in his ?
Couplet 1205 Me from his heart he jealously excludes:Hath he no shame who ceaseless on my heart intrudesExplanationHe who has imprisoned me in his soul, is he ashamed to enter incessantly into mine
Couplet 1206 How live I yet? I live to ponder o'erThe days of bliss with him that are no moreExplanationI live by remembering my (former) intercourse with him; if it were not so, how could I live?
Couplet 1207 If I remembered not what were I then? And yet,The fiery smart of what my spirit knows not to forgetExplanationI have never forgotten (the pleasure); even to think of it burns my soul; could I live, if I should ever forget it ?
Couplet 1208 My frequent thought no wrath excites It is not so?This honour doth my love on me bestowExplanation146 He will not be angry however much I may think of him; is it not so much the delight my beloved
Couplet 1209 Dear life departs, when his ungracious deeds I ponder o'er,Who said erewhile, 'We're one for evermore'ExplanationMy precious life is wasting away by thinking too much on the cruelty of him who said we were not different
Couplet 1210 Set not; so may'st thou prosper, moon! that eyes may seeMy love who went away, but ever bides with meExplanationMay you live, O Moon! Do not set, that I mine see him who has departed without quitting my soul
Couplet 1191 The bliss to be beloved by those they love who gains,Of love the stoneless, luscious fruit obtainsExplanationThe women who are beloved by those whom they love, have they have not got the stone-less fruit of sexual delight ?
Couplet 1192 As heaven on living men showers blessings from above,Is tender grace by lovers shown to those they loveExplanationThe bestowal of love by the beloved on those who love them is like the rain raining (at the proper season) on those who live by it
Couplet 1193 Who love and are beloved to them aloneBelongs the boast, 'We've made life's very joys our own.'ExplanationThe pride that says "we shall live" suits only those who are loved by their beloved (husbands)
Couplet 1194 Those well-beloved will luckless prove,Unless beloved by those they loveExplanationEven those who are esteemed (by other women) are devoid of excellence, if they are not loved by their beloved
Couplet 1195 From him I love to me what gain can be,Unless, as I love him, he loveth meExplanationHe who is beloved by me, what will he do to me, if I am not beloved by him ?
Couplet 1196 Love on one side is bad; like balanced loadBy porter borne, love on both sides is goodExplanationLust, like the weight of the KAVADI, pains if it lies in one end only but pleases if it is in both
Couplet 1197 While Kaman rushes straight at me alone,Is all my pain and wasting grief unknownExplanationWould not cupid who abides and contends in one party (only) witness the pain and sorrow (in that party)?
Couplet 1198 Who hear from lover's lips no pleasant word from day to day,Yet in the world live out their life,- no braver souls than theyExplanationThere is no one in the world so hard-hearted as those who can live without receiving (even) a kind word from their beloved
Couplet 1199 Though he my heart desires no grace accords to me,Yet every accent of his voice is melodyExplanation145 Though my beloved bestows no love on one, still are his words sweet to my ears
Couplet 1200 Tell him thy pain that loves not thee?Farewell, my soul, fill up the seaExplanationLive, O my soul, would you who relate your great sorrow to strangers, try rather to fill up your own sea (of sorrow)
Couplet 1181 I willed my lover absent should remain;Of pining's sickly hue to whom shall I complainExplanationI who (then) consented to the absence of my loving lord, to whom can I (now) relate the fact of my having turned sallow
Couplet 1182 'He gave': this sickly hue thus proudly speaks,Then climbs, and all my frame its chariot makesExplanationSallowness, as if proud of having been caused by him, would now ride on my person
Couplet 1183 Of comeliness and shame he me bereft,While pain and sickly hue, in recompense, he leftExplanationHe has taken (away) my beauty and modesty, and given me instead disease and sallowness
Couplet 1184 I meditate his words, his worth is theme of all I say,This sickly hue is false that would my trust betrayExplanationI think (of him); and what I speak about is but his excellence; still is there sallowness; and this is deceitful
Couplet 1185 My lover there went forth to roam;This pallor of my frame usurps his place at homeExplanationJust as my lover departed then, did not sallowness spread here on my person ?
Couplet 1186 As darkness waits till lamp expires, to fill the place,This pallor waits till I enjoy no more my lord's embraceExplanationJust as darkness waits for the failing light; so does sallowness wait for the laxity of my husband's intercourse
Couplet 1187 I lay in his embrace, I turned unwittingly;Forthwith this hue, as you might grasp it, came on meExplanationI who was in close embrace just turned aside and the moment I did so, sallowness came on me like something to be seized on
Couplet 1188 On me, because I pine, they cast a slur;But no one says, 'He first deserted her.'ExplanationBesides those who say "she has turned sallow" there are none who say "he has forsaken her"
Couplet 1189 Well let my frame, as now, be sicklied o'er with pain,If he who won my heart's consent, in good estate remainExplanationIf he is clear of guilt who has conciliated me (to his departure) let my body suffer its due and turn sallow
Couplet 1190 'Tis well, though men deride me for my sickly hue of pain;If they from calling him unkind, who won my love, refrainExplanationIt would be good to be said of me that I have turned sallow, if friends do not reproach with unkindness him who pleased me (then)
