2. I am inwardly consumed for the love of this cypress-like beauty. She is so cruel. Into her thoughts I enter not.
3. I see in dreams her ringlets, and rise deeply saddened at noon. From this lock of her hair my heart separates not.
4. Medjnun and Leila, take a lesson from me in love; my charming dear one heeds me not.
5. The life of foolish Meshref seems coming to its end, and the sad flirt heeds me not.
Fuzuli.
1. Hold fast to the leading strings of modesty, for nothing is lovelier than modesty. Immodesty, mark this well, advances neither in this nor that world.
2. Oh! bird of my heart, flutter not in the air, but light on the hand of a king. The too high-flying hawk is never employed in the chase.
3. Desire treasure only from God; he has many storehouses. Should a drop only fall to thee for portion, this is amply sufficient: it ends not.
4. He, on whom the bird of happiness has rested, flies high, even without wings. He, on whom a dark lot has fallen, can scarcely raise his own hand.