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Preface (Ode 591)		ix
To the Reader		xiii
Odes		1
Ode 1	Saki, for God's love, come and fill my glass	1
Ode 2	O Love, the beauty of the moon is thine	3
Ode 7	Heart, have you heard the news!	5
Ode 8	You little Turk of Shiraz-town	8
Ode 9	O Love, if thou so cruel continuest to be	11
Ode 14	O Love, how can you thus conceal your face	13
Ode 16	“Love,” I cried, “a little pity	15
Ode 17	Comrades, the morning breaks, the sun is up	17
Ode 24	Do you see that dark girl yonder?	19
Ode 26	Thrice holy night! O hallowed rising moon!	21
Ode 32	'T is an unstable world: all fades and glides	23
Ode 34	When thus I sit with roses in my breast	25
Ode 39	Preacher, 't is all in vain you preach to me	28
Ode 42	My hermitage the tavern is	30
Ode 44	Last night, as half asleep I dreaming lay	32
Ode 48	No! Saki—take the wine away	34
Ode 49	Now that the rose-tree in its dainty hand	35
Ode 53	Whose is yon candle of beauty?	37
Ode 54	I well could speak to her had I a mind	39
Ode 59	Zahid, I beg you, leave my sins alone	41
Ode 71	Without your cheek, black night is every day	43
Ode 74	Love is a sea that hath not any shore	45
Ode 75	Happy returns of this good day to thee	47
Ode 79	No one has seen thy face; a thousand eyes	49
Ode 83	O Love, all hidden from my aching sight	51
Ode 100	Without a sign she went away	54
Ode 104	The Abbot of the Wine-House for thy friend	56
Ode 105	Who shall interpret the Beloved's hair?	58
Ode 109	Beloved, it is not for you to question the words of the wise	60
Ode 110	Helpless, we look for help—Sweet Heaven, save!	62
Ode 121	Now that the rose is risen from the dead	63
Ode 131	In the Beloved's path I laid my face	65
Ode 141	The days go by, yet not a word you send	67
Ode 142	Life is not worth the trouble; the whole sky	69
Ode 143	Save the pursuit of faces like the moon	71
Ode 144	The face of my Beloved is a rose	74
Ode 147	Beauty alone will not account for her	76
Ode 149	The Well-Beloved is very hard to please	78
Ode 150	In the Beloved's Street I lost my heart!	80
Ode 155	The rose is not the rose unless thou see	82
Ode 168	He who hath made thy cheek of the wild rose	83
Ode 173	All the long night we talked of your long hair	85
Ode 174	Time was your doorstep was my dwelling-place	87
Ode 176	Comfort thee, heart—this much at least is true	89
Ode 192	The days of distance and the nights apart	91
Ode 194	“O Love, but I am sad at heart for thee”	93
Ode 207	O I 've good news for you—the spring, the spring!	95
Ode 223	What ails the times? Is friendship then no more	97
Ode 225	Once more red wine hath turned my willing head	99
Ode 227	This house hath been a fairy's dwelling-place	101
Ode 232	A grievous folly shames my sixtieth year	103
Ode 236	The winds of March blow up the clouds of spring	105
Ode 249	I will not stay my hand till thou art mine	107
Odes 251–252	A caravan from China comes	109
Ode 253	Forget not, O my heart, thine ancient friends	111
Ode 254	What a musician is that rascal Love!	112
Ode 255	In all this city not a girl for me!	114
Ode 268	In the Heart's Market-Place go stand, my song	116
Ode 290	Wind of the East, pass by my Loved One's door	118
Ode 291	Show us thy face, and at the same time say	120
Ode 315	In the rose-garden of the World, one rose	122
Ode 317	Love, thou art fair, as delicate as dew	124
Ode 322	Shiraz, city of the heart	126
Ode 330	How my heart aches with happiness to-night	128
Ode 331	For all her cruel grown-up ways	130
Ode 353	“I will get drunk,” saidst thou, “and kiss thee twice”	132
Ode 361	O love, that stole my heart with your strange face	134
Ode 364	This moment on the air strange sweetness came	136
Ode 365	Whenever I of the Beloved sing	138
Ode 378	Love, I am like the candle	140
Ode 384	Heavens! do you think this is a time to choose	142
Ode 440	At sunset, when the eyes of exiles fill	144
Ode 453	Wouldst know what fortune is? Fortune for me	146
Ode 457	The Princess of the box-trees, she that vies	148
Ode 465	Deep in my heart there dwells a holy bird	150
Ode 477	In the green sky I saw the new moon reaping	152
Ode 483	Dawn, like a lover, the black robe of night	154
Ode 487	With last night's wine still singing in my head	156
Ode 491	What ails thee, Saki? Wine, for God's love, bring!	158
Ode 493	What hast thou done! Thrown thus thy virgin shame	160
Ode 495	Strange heart, the way is open—yet thy feet	162
Ode 524	Two gallons of old wine, and two old friends	164
Ode 537	The mercy of God, so long as there is day	166
Ode 542	O Shiraz City, filled with lovely faces	168
Ode 564	Bring wine into the garden, on the brink	170
Ode 565	Rejoice, my heart, before the springtime goes	172
Ode 566	Breeze of the morning, at the hour thou knowest	174
Ode 570	A thousand ways, beloved, have I sought	176
Ode 572	My heart in prison is—in Selma's hair	178
Ode 586	Shah, out of heaven came now this sudden song	179
Ode 592	O lion-hearted, ocean-handed King	180
Ode 598	My little moon, the morning Friday was	182
Ode 604	Ismail is dead, of men and cadis best	183
Ode 605	Kiwam-ed-din, strong pillar of the state	184
Ode 606	Little sleeper, the spring is here	185
Ode 608	Seest thou this little berry, this green pill?	186
Ode 613	O you embroidered robe of my young days	187
Epilogue	Conserve of roses is this book of song (Ode 596)	188
Index of First Lines		189