O DEAR ONE! Here, behold my land! / Sorrowless past understanding! / I cry aloud to king and beggar, / To emperor and miracle worker...

CLOUDS THICKEN and rise in the sky! / O, listen to the deep voice cry, / The clouds roaring, Lay waste! Lay waste! / The gray rain comes in from the east; / Its monotonous hiss strikes the dust...

I AM NEITHER of the pious, / Nor the force of ungodliness; / I live neither by the strict laws, / Nor by the vagaries of sense...

OPEN YOU, EYES of love, / Unbid, and see Him who pervades this world. / Consider Him as your legacy, / And know this is your own country...

IF GOD IS in the mosque there, hid, / Then who owns this wide world, outside?

WHEN YOU will have come there at last, / To the ocean of happiness, / Do not go back while you still thirst. / Wake, foolish man! for Death stalks you...

WHEN I PART from my Beloved, / My heart is full of blight and dread: / I have no comfort in the day, / Nor have I sleep to comfort me. / To whom shall I my sorrow cry?

THE HIDDEN BANNER is planted / In the temple of the cloud; / Around is spread the blue canopy / Decked with the moon and its array...

THE LOCK of error shuts the gate, / Hurry! Before it is too late, / Open it with the key of love: / You know the key I’m speaking of...

A SORE PAIN troubles my daylight, / And I cannot sleep in the night; / I long to meet with my Beloved, / And my father's house is decayed, / The place I felt so safe and sure, / Gives me no pleasure any more...

MORE THAN ALL else do I cherish / That love, in my own heart’s dear wish, / Which makes me live without limit / In this bright world we all inhabit...

THE MIDDLE REGION of the sky, / Wherein the spirit speaks to me, / Shines with a soft music of light; / The music blossoms, pure and white, / And my Lord finds there His delight...

BETWEEN the universal poles / Of conscious and unconscious wills, / There has the mind made a great swing: / Thereon hangs every world and being...

TELL ME, O SWAN, your ancient tale. / From what land have you come to call? / To what shore will you fly anon? / Where would you take your rest, O Swan?

WHEN HE HIMSELF reveals Himself, / Then God Himself makes visible / That which at once cannot be seen. / As the seed is hid in the plant, / As the shade is still in the tree, / As the void is behind the sky, / As infinite forms possess the void...

O SERVANT, where do you seek Me? / Look! I am waiting, beside you. / I am not in temple, nor mosque: / Not in Ka'aba nor in Kailash: / Neither am I in rites and feasts, / Nor in Yoga, nor trials and fasts...