Contents

Introduction
Jeláleddín as a Persian Poet—Judgments of Scholars and Experts in Persian Literature since Sir W. Jones—The Philosophical and Theological Interest—Hegel—Tholuck—The Poetical Form—The Gazel—The Divan—Fitzgerald's Omar Khayyám—Burns—Browning—Keats's Nightingale—Coleridge echoes the Faith of Jeláleddín.
Fifty Gazels of Jeláleddín
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I.Light,[1]
II.Death and Life,[2]
III.Invocation,[3]
IV.Faith,[4]
V.Dawn,[5]
VI.Allah Hu,[6]
VII.Spring,[7]
VIII.Spring's Festival,[8]
IX.Dependence,[9]
X.Mystical Union,[10]
XI.Identity,[12]
XII.Confession,[13]
XIII.Discordia Concors,[14]
XIV.Renovation,[15]
XV.Revolving in Mystic Dance,[16]
XVI.The Soul in All,[17]
XVII.Responsibility,[18]
XVIII.Action,[19]
XIX.Bondage,[20]
XX.Love's Freedom,[21]
XXI.In My Heart,[22]
XXII.Not Deaf to Love,[23]
XXIII.Assimilation,[24]
XXIV.Cleanliness,[25]
XXV.Where is He?[26]
XXVI.Love's Slavery,[27]
XXVII.Psyche in Tears,[28]
XXVIII.Substitutional,[29]
XXVIX.God's Throne,[30]
XXX.The Lion of God,[31]
XXXI.Self-Realisation,[33]
XXXII.Thy Hand,[34]
XXXIII.The Priests,[35]
XXXIV.The Pilgrims,[36]
XXXV.Many Faiths, One Lord,[37]
XXXVI.Love Absolute,[38]
XXXVII.Renunciation,[39]
XXXVIII.All Fulness,[40]
XXXIX.Friendship,[41]
XL.The Friend Supreme,[42]
XLI.Immortality,[44]
XLII.The First and Last,[45]
XLIII.Mystic Love Dance,[46]
XLIV.Dream Fear,[47]
XLV.The Cry of Love,[48]
XLVI.Night Thought,[49]
XLVII.Up out of Night,[50]
XLVIII.All One,[52]
XLIX.O Wake in Me,[53]
L.Jeláleddín,[55]
Notes
A.Sir William Jones on the Mystical Poetry of the Persians.[57]
B.Hegel on the Character of the Persian Lyrical Poetry.[59]
C.Von Hammer's Account of Omar Khayyám.[61]