«Transparent and blue is the air, / I’ll go where the flowers are fair. / You, traveller, wandering there / Shall not find the hot desert’s glare. / Transparent and blue is the air. Resplendent as orchards—these fields. / With blooms in profusion they’re filled. / You cannot resi...»
«Moonlight with the chilliness of gold, / Scent of rosebay and of gillyflowers. / Through this kind blue country in such hours / Of tranquillity I like to stroll. Baghdad lies there faraway somewhere. / There Sheherazade told her stories. / She needs nothing now because the chorus / Of t...»
«Horossan has one such door, they tell me, / On the threshold roses line the floor / And a pensive peri there is dwelling. / Horossan has one such door, they tell me, / But it did not yield to me, that door. In my hands and arms I’ve strength in plenty, / There is gold and copper in my h...»
«Blue homeland of Firdausi, / You’ll keep the memory warm / Of that kind fellow from Russia / Whose gaze had a pensive charm, / Blue homeland of Firdausi. I know you’re beautiful, Persia. / Like lanterns your roses shine, / Their supple freshness murmurs / To me of that far land of...»