Ghazal 168

گداخت جان که شود کار دل تمام و نشد
بسوختیم در این آرزوی خام و نشد

به لابه گفت شبی میر مجلس تو شوم
شدم به رغبت خویشش کمین غلام و نشد

پیام داد که خواهم نشست با رندان
بشد به رندی و دردی کشیم نام و نشد

رواست در بر اگر می‌تپد کبوتر دل
که دید در ره خود تاب و پیچ دام و نشد

بدان هوس که به مستی ببوسم آن لب لعل
چه خون که در دلم افتاد همچو جام و نشد

به کوی عشق منه بی دلیل راه، قدم
که من به خویش نمودم صد اهتمام و نشد

فغان که در طلب گنج نامهٔ مقصود
شدم خراب جهانی ز غم تمام و نشد

دریغ و درد که در جست و جوی گنج حضور
بسی شدم به گدایی بر کرام و نشد

هزار حیله برانگیخت حافظ از سر فکر
در آن هوس که شود آن نگار رام و نشد

My soul melted so that the heart's business might be done, and it was not;
we burned in this raw desire, and it was not.

Coaxing, she said: one night I will be the lady of your feast.
I gladly became her least slave, and it was not.

She sent word: I will sit with the rends.
My name went out for being a rend and a drinker of dregs, and it was not.

It is right if the dove of the heart flutters in my breast,
for it saw the twist and coil of the snare on its road, and it was not freed.

In the longing to kiss that ruby lip in drunkenness,
what blood fell into my heart, as into the cup, and it was not.

Do not set foot in the street of love without a guide,
for I tried a hundred ways by myself, and it was not.

Alas that in search of the treasure book of my desire
I became the ruin of a whole world from grief, and it was not.

Alas and pain, that in seeking the treasure of presence
I went begging to the generous many times, and it was not.

Hafez devised a thousand stratagems by thought
in the hope that that beauty would be tamed, and she was not.