Quatrains Of Rumi – English Translation

I’ll tell thee clear A tongueless tale From every ear I woul conceal. Though I shall speak Where all is heard No ear shall take…

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi – Nowruz In my heart you are the mirthful ray You are the caring, though my companions they Happy is the world…

Such as uncumbered be, In my mystic ecstasy This night in secret dwell With Him they love so well. Rise up and leave us, then,…

Two nights or three till dawn, my heart, Vigil keep; The moon wakes, when the sun doth part; Do not sleep. Put down thy pail…

Ark of deliverance, From Noah our inheritance, Here sail we fast and free Amid life’s wide and whirling sea. And from that sea a plant…

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi – I Am Part Of The Load I am part of the load Not rightly balanced I drop off in the grass,…

Leap, leap! for the rhyme Of the soul is afoot; The sweet drum keeps time With the soft reed’s note. Sorrow’s fires of old More…

O have no care; To sleep thy griefs commit; The moon is fair, Care is the veil of it. The heart’s a moon; Therein no…

The Fount of Life, that never dies, Is but a sprinkling of Thy grace; The moon, that lightens all the skies, A pale reflection of…

What is this thing That in the form does pleasure bring, But when the form this same shall lack ‘Tis blurres and black? This thing…

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi – Behind The Scenes Is it your face that adorns the garden? Is it your fragrance that intoxicates this garden? Is it…

I am at war with the day, So swift it hath passed away; As swift as a torrent flows, Or a wind o’er the plain…

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi – Last Night My Soul Cried O Exalted Sphere Of Heaven Last night my soul cried, “O exalted sphere of Heaven, you…

O Friend, in friendship we Thy faithful comrades be; Wherever Thou dost lay Thy foot, we are Thy clay. Can it be law, indeed, in…

The cry of thy throat Is the trumpet’s note, The clarion clear Filling hearts with fear. Be loud thy call, Until prostrate fall Proud emperor,…

Wherever I lay down my head, There He alone is worshipes; I humbly kneel before His face, Fulfiling and transcending space. The nightingale, the garden…

Bu just confess In love is ample righteousness; The fault lies in Thyself, that thou art prone to sin. If thou dost claim For human…

He whose beauty fair Moves angels to amaze Came at morning air Upon my heart to gaze. Tears upon my sighs He wept, till morn…

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi – Let Go Of Your Worries Let go of your worries and be completely clear-hearted, like the face of a mirror that…

O MIND, be gone! Here is not mindful anyone; Though thou be shrunken as a hair, For thee no room is there. Behold the day!…

The Man Of GOD By Maulana Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi Balkhi The man of GOD is drunken without wine, The man of GOD is full without…

When the soul doth smart, And can the same rehearse, Singing from the heart Shall all its grief disperse. See, the wondrous rose That in…

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi – Defeated By Love The sky was lit by the splendor of the moon So powerful I fell to the ground Your…

I saw in a dream A saki fair, In his hands the gleam Of the goblet there. To his ghost I said ‘As His slave…

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi – Let Me Be Mad O incomparable Giver of life, cut reason loose at last! Let it wander grey-eyed from vanity to…

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi – O Love O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, Be all – worlds dissolve into your stainless endless…

The lovely boy Who was our circle’s joy Hath quit our mysteries; I know not where he is. A cypress tall Is he, stately withal;…

‘Who lifteth up, the spirit, Say, who is he? ‘Who gave in the beginning This life to me. ‘Who hoodeth, like a falcon’s, A while…

”On the day I die, when I am being carried toward the grave, do not weep Don’t say, He is gone! He is gone! death…

========================== Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi – I See So Deeply Within Myself I see so deeply within myself. Not needing my eyes, I can see everything…

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi – In The Waters Of Purity In the waters of purity, I melted like salt Neither blasphemy, nor faith, nor conviction, nor…

O WHAT is this That is the circle’s bliss, And ah! the heart’s perdition When it is gone It cometh so, Unseen, and goeth let…

The hour is late; and we alack! are on a sea, Where, in distraction sore, we seek the unseen shore. Night; in the cloud swept…

Within thy soul a soul doth dwell Go, seek it well! Within thy mountain is mine Get it for thine. The Sufi seek as he…

Death’s Angel cries When the lute is played; Our hearts arise Living from the dead. These passions deep That were drowned and died Like fishes…

I said to the reed ‘Whose sinful deed, Though tongueless, now Lamentest thou?’ The reed replied ‘His sweet lip denied, While I shall live I…

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi – Lord, What A Beloved Is Mine! Lord, what a Beloved is mine! I have a sweet quarry; I possess in my…

Radiant is the moon thy brow; Night is fallen; sleep not now, But like heaven’s turning sphere Wheel into our circle here. Lo, our vigil’s…

This heaven, and these skies, The farthest boundary of mine eyes, In the controlling hands of God Are lighter than a rod. Each raindrop, every…

Yea, idol fair; Too small pretext was there, Till sleep came down And stole thee from thy own. O softly sleep; But I, till dawn…

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi – Did I Not Say To You Did I not say to you, “Go not there, for I am your friend; in…

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi – I Have Fallen Into Unconsciousness I have got out of my own control, I have fallen into unconsciousness; in my utter…

Listen, while the lute doth play; Knowest thou what it would say? ‘Hither, hither come with me, I will show the road to thee. ‘Erring,…

Rain fell on the head Of a man of passion, Feel in such a fashion To his house he fled. Clapping wings, the swan ‘Pour…

This drunkenness of mine Is of no crimson wine; My wine doth not pass Except in passion’s glass. O friend, was it thy will With…

A mote am I, Thou my shining sun; Of grief I die, Thou my cure alone. To Thee I fly On no wing upborne- A…