Islam

Rûmî, Divan (Davis), “My Body is Like the Moon”

My body is like the moon which is melting for Love,
My heart like Zuhra's lute--may its strings be broken!
Look not on the moon's waning nor on Zuhra's broken state:
Behold the sweetness of his affection--may it wax a thousandfold!

Source Rûmî, Divan de Shams-i Tabrîz, extraits traduits par R. A. Nicholson (1898) et al., in F. Hadland Davis, The Persian Mystics: Jalálu’d-dín Rúmí (1907), gutenberg.org #45159 · Contents