Number 15

RubāʿīLiterary Return
English

Number 15

Anyone who burns down my harvest, who ruins me, must do it with weeping and lament. On the rose that springs up from my dust, I wish a nightingale would make its home.
Explanation: The rose growing from the poet's dust is a classic image of the dead returning as flowers; the mourning nightingale stands for a lover who keeps grieving over him.

Original · Persian

شمارهٔ ۱۵

هر کس به من سوخته خرمن سازد شرطست که با ناله و شیون سازد
بر شاخ گلی که سرزند از خاکم ای کاش که بلبلی نشیمن سازد