Islam

Rûmî, Divan (Davis), “The House of Love”

This is the Lord of Heaven, who resembles Venus and the moon,
This is the House of Love, which has no bound or end.
Like a mirror, the soul has received Thy image in its heart;
The tip of Thy curl has sunk into my heart like a comb.
Forasmuch as the women cut their hands in Joseph's presence,
Come to me, O soul, for the Beloved is in the midst.

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