(1207 - 1273 / Balkh / Afghanistan)

Poems of Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

61. O You Who've gone on Pilgrimage 3/30/2010
62. Ode 1373 3/30/2010
63. Ode 1957: An intellectual 3/30/2010
64. Ode 314 3/30/2010
65. One Whisper of the Beloved 3/30/2010
66. Only Breath 3/30/2010
67. Out Beyond Ideas 3/30/2010
68. Out of Your Love 3/30/2010
69. Passion makes the old medicine new: 3/30/2010
70. Quatrain 1693 (Farsi with English Translation) 3/30/2010
71. Reason says love says 3/30/2010
72. Rise, lovers 1/1/2004
73. Shadow and Light Source Both 3/30/2010
74. Sleep of the Body the Soul's Awakening 3/30/2010
75. Soul Receives From Soul 3/30/2010
76. The beauty of the heart 3/30/2010
77. The Breeze at Dawn 3/30/2010
78. The Guest House 3/30/2010
79. The Lovers 3/30/2010
80. The ravings which my enemy uttered I heard within my heart 1/1/2004

If I weep

If I weep, if I come with excuses, my beloved puts cotton wool in his ears.
Every cruelty which he commits becomes him, every cruelty which he commits I endure.
If he accounts me nonexistent, I account his tyranny generosity.
The cure of the ache of my heart is the ache for him; how shall I not surrender my heart to his ache?
Only then are glory and respect mine, when his glorious love renders me contemptible.
Only then does the vine of my body become wine, when the wine-presser stamps on m

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