Elizabeth Bridges Daryush

Name: Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses
Author: Elizabeth Bridges Daryush

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“Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses”, is a work by Elizabeth Bridges Daryush. It explores elements such as Heav'n, thine and tis beauteous.

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Elizabeth Bridges Daryush, Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses

“ Of icy death in life, that shackling Hell?
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O gentle weariness,
Thine is the power that can all spirits free
From bonding-trouble, thou art a goddess
To all the suffering slaves of misery.
Thy sanctuary
No suppliant vainly seeketh; wheresoe’er
Desperate grief is, then unfailingly
Is thine all-hallowing rest & refuge there.
Our sorrow hath outgrown
Solace, yet still in thine all-mothering hand
Is balm of soft oblivion, who alone
Our never-ending needs dost understand. ”

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Elizabeth Bridges Daryush, Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses

“ Such sceptres that have ruled all earth’s demesnes,
Such broider’d robes, such antique jewelry,
Such orbs, such thrones, such treasures (say thou then)
These the rich heritage of poesy
Are as wealth’s burden is to untaught men;
Life’s costly crowns that but disaster bring,
To who is not in spirit born a king. ”

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Elizabeth Bridges Daryush, Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses

“ Is to forgo the sweets of Paradise.
Say not, ‘Life’s pleasance is a deathly snare:
Shun it, so would’st thou save thy soul alive;
Blind thee, & in drear temple pray & strive’.
Know thou, all gladness is God’s house of grace;
All loveliness is thy Belovéd’s face;
All beauteous earth is Heav’n’s gay garden-ground.
To love the rose, the fair, the gladsome bird,
Life’s lovely bliss, wherever it be found,
To love love’s truth from whomsoever heard,
This is their faith, who see with seeing eyes,
Their worship & their endless Paradise.
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What madness ’twas, I know not, that thus enchanted me ”

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Elizabeth Bridges Daryush, Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses

“ Where is hope’s guiding lantern? Where is faith’s star so fair?
My heart fled from the cloister, & chant of monkish hymn,
What can avail me sainthood, fasting & punctual prayer?
What is the truth shall light me to heav’n’s strait thoroughfare?
Whither, O heart, thus hastest? Arrest thee & beware!
See what a lone adventure is thine unending quest!
Fraught with what deadly danger! Set with what unseen snare!
Say not, O friend, to Hafez, ‘Quiet thee now & rest!’
Calm & content, what are they? Patience & peace, O where?
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I said, ‘Thou knowest, O all-knowing Friend,
My trouble for thee’. ”

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Elizabeth Bridges Daryush, Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses

“ Thy passive tools, obedient hands
To serve thy purpose, thy trusty swords:
They shall thy beauteous will express
Though they be graceless & purposeless.
Yea, live thou in men as their life’s will,
So long as life is, & good & ill. ”

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Elizabeth Bridges Daryush, Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses

“ Not hére is my journey’s end, Indus nor Cathay.
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ON A HILL
Eyes that o’er the landscape fly,
Over dale & wood & stream
To the cloud-realms of the sky;
Eyes that wander still & dream,
Hopes that ever forward press
Seeking lovelier loveliness;
All the world is yours to roam
—Searching eye & swiftling thought—
Nowhere can ye make your home;
Not where peace so vainly sought
Bower’d in the valley lies,
Nor content’s small villages;
Nor can pleasure’s garish dress
Tempt you to a mean caress
—Thoughts that will not rest nor stay—
Ever do ye tell her nay ”

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Elizabeth Bridges Daryush, Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses

“ When the strong climber his last mountain-crest
Attaineth, & the point for which he strove
Is reached, & his desire made manifest,
& seating him the topmost heights above
He gazeth on each aspect leisurely,
Considering the path by which he clomb
& which so many attempted, & how he
The first of all his race had strength to come
Unto that eminence, & how this throne
Shall men hereafter to his name recall;
Then more than ever is he strangely lone,
Seeing earth’s dwellings spread out far & small ”

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Elizabeth Bridges Daryush, Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses

“ Some of the poems follow the Persian fairly closely (especially nos. 30, 31, 34, & 35) ; others are merely founded on or suggested by one or two couplets.
No. 4 was suggested by a Persian dialect quatrain by Baba Tahir.
The remainder are original.
E. B.
Chilswell,
Sept. 1920.
TO
A. A. D.
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When sunlight faileth,
& day’s glow is gone;
When chill mist traileth
Where warm splendour shone;
When summer’s pleasure
Dieth,—dieth too
The transient treasure
That with life up-grew
& none may herit,
Where then wilt thou turn,
O vagrant spirit,
That no home didst earn ”

Elizabeth Bridges Daryush

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