Quatrain 13

RubāʿīIraqi style
English

Quatrain 13

Since my love left, my patience fled from me, and from every eyelash a thousand drops of blood-tinged tears fell. It seems I will never see her again; 'may anyone who cannot see go blind.'
Explanation: The final line is a Persian proverb, wishing blindness on whoever cannot see, used here as a bitter play on the poet's own inability to see his beloved.

Original · Persian

رباعی شمارهٔ ۱۳

تا یار برفت صبر از من برمید وز هر مژه‌ام هزار خونابه چکید
گوئی نتوانم که ببینم بازش «تا کور شود هر آنکه نتواند دید»