More Persian Love Poetry

I said I felt pain for you; you said my pain would pass.

        I asked you to be my moon; you said, if she appears.

I said, learn from lovers the custom of faithfulness;

        You said seldom is this the custom of the moon-faced.

I said I wanted to hold your attention;

        You said it is like a night thief and will come another way.

HAFIZ

translated by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis

Persian Love Poetry (London: The British Museum Press, 2005), 58.