Transcriber's Note:

The cover was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

SONNETS FROM HAFEZ & other verses

NOTE

The last fifteen pieces in this book, which are founded on odes of Hafez, are not translations. Their aim is rather to convey if possible something of the original spirit than to give a faithful rendering of either thought or form; & I have not scrupled to omit, insert, alter or even deliberately to pervert the idea as fancy or feeling dictated. Some of the poems follow the Persian fairly closely (especially nos. 30, 31, 34, & 35); others are merely founded on or suggested by one or two couplets.

The

No. 4 was suggested by a Persian dialect quatrain by Baba Tahir.

The remainder are original.

Chilswell

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5 ON A HILL

6 AFTER MUSIC

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