Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi's Poetry, by popularity

• O You Who've gone on Pilgrimage

  O you who've gone on pilgrimage -
                where are you, where, oh where?

  19 lines
• My mother was fortune, my father generosity and bounty

  My mother was fortune, my father generosity and bounty; I
  am joy, son of joy, son of joy, son of joy.

  21 lines
• The time has come for us to become madmen in your chain

  The time has come for us to become madmen in your chain, to
  burst our bonds and become estranged from all;

  30 lines
• Rise, lovers

  Rise, lovers, that we may go towards heaven; we have seen this world, so let us go to that world.
  No, no, for thought these two garde

  14 lines
• Last night my soul cried O exalted sphere of Heaven

  Last night my soul cried, “O exalted sphere of Heaven, you hang indeed inverted, with flames in your belly.
  

  15 lines
• Soul Receives From Soul

  Soul receives from soul that knowledge,
  therefore not by book nor from tongue.

  5 lines
• One Whisper of the Beloved

  Lovers share a sacred decree –
  to seek the Beloved.

  41 lines
• Weary not of us, for we are very beautiful

  Weary not of us, for we are very beautiful; it is out of very jealousy and proper pride that we entered the veil.
  On the day when we

  14 lines
• Ode 1373

  I was dead, then alive.
  Weeping, then laughing.

  65 lines
• This Will Not Win Him

  Reason says,
  I will win him with my eloquence.

  63 lines
• When I am asleep and crumbling in the tomb

  When I am asleep and crumbling in the tomb, should you come
  to visit me, I will come forth with speed.

  12 lines
• If a Tree could Wander

  Oh, if a tree could wander
      and move with foot and wings!

  38 lines
• The springtime of Lovers has come

  The springtime of Lovers has come,
  that this dust bowl may become a garden;

  8 lines
• Your grief....

  Your grief for what youve lost holds a mirror
  up to where you're bravely working.

  12 lines
• Be Lost In The Call

  Lord, said David, since you do not need us,
  why did you create these two worlds?

  34 lines
• Zero Circle

  Be helpless, dumbfounded,
  Unable to say yes or no.

  20 lines, 4 comments
• Lord, what a Beloved is mine!

  Lord, what a Beloved is mine! I have a sweet quarry; I possess
  

  26 lines
• Bring Wine

  Bring wine, for I am suffering crop sickness from the vintage;
  God has seized me, and I am thus held fast.

  37 lines, 1 comment
• What Hidden Sweetness Is There

  What hidden sweetness there is in this emptiness of the belly

  23 lines
• I Was Dead

  i was dead
  i came alive

  86 lines
• Who is at my door?

  He said, "Who is at my door?"
  I said, "Your humble servant."

  47 lines, 1 comment
• Passion makes the old medicine new:

  Passion makes the old medicine new:
  Passion lops off the bough of weariness.

  7 lines
• Confused and Distraught

  Again I am raging,
  I am in such a state by your soul that every

  27 lines
• The ravings which my enemy uttered I heard within my heart

  The ravings which my enemy uttered I heard within my heart;
  the secret thoughts he harbored against me I also perceived.

  31 lines, 1 comment
• Book1 Prologue

  Hearken to the reed-flute, how it complains,
  Lamenting its banishment from its home:

  73 lines, 3 comments
• I Am Part Of The Load

  I am part of the load
  Not rightly balanced

  23 lines
• Love is the Water of Life

  Everything other than love for the most beautiful God
  though it be sugar- eating.

  5 lines
• The Lovers

  The Lovers
  will drink wine night and day.

  8 lines
• Ode 314

  Those who don't feel this Love
  pulling them like a river,

  18 lines
• Ghazal 314

  You who are not kept anxiously awake for love's sake, sleep on.
  In restless search for that river, we hurry along;

  13 lines

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