🌐 Reading language

Number 22

RubāʿīLiterary Return

English

Number 22

If I raised a cup at the party of pleasure without you, I plunged my wet eyes a hundred times into blood. Like the wine jug left standing there, so stays the hand I struck on my own head in grief for you.

Explanation: Striking the head with the hand is a traditional gesture of mourning; the poet compares his frozen, grieving hand to the curved handle of a wine jug.

Original · Persian

شمارهٔ ۲۲

گر بی تو به بزم عیش ساغر زده ام صد غوطه به خون دیده تر زده ام

مانند سبوی باده مانده است بجای دستی که به هجران تو بر سر زده ام