Drops Of His Heart's Blood - Poem by Shams al-Din Hafiz S

Drops Of His Heart's Blood - Poem by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.
THE nightingale with drops of his heart's blood
Had nourished the red rose, then came a wind,
And catching at the boughs in envious mood,
A hundred thorns about his heart entwined.
Like to the parrot crunching sugar, good
Seemed the world to me who could not stay
The wind of Death that swept my hopes away.

Light of mine eyes and harvest of my heart,
And mine at least in changeless memory!