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Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi's Poetry, by title

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  •     Everything other than love for the most beautiful           
        God
    10 lines
  • A moment of happiness,
    you and I sitting on the verandah,
    15 lines, 15 comments
  • A stone I died and rose again a plant;
    A plant I died and rose an animal;
    4 lines
  • All through eternity
    Beauty unveils His exquisite form
    28 lines, 2 comments
  • Any lifetime that is spent without seeing the master
    Is either death in disguise or a deep sleep.
    4 lines, 2 comments
  • Any soul that drank the nectar of your passion was lifted.
    From that water of life he is in a state of elation.
    4 lines, 1 comment
  • At the twilight, a moon appeared in the sky;
    Then it landed on earth to look at me.
    10 lines
  • Lord, said David, since you do not need us,
    why did you create these two worlds?
    34 lines
  • Be with those who help your being.
    Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath
    13 lines
  • Because I cannot sleep
    I make music at night.
    30 lines, 10 comments
  • Birdsong brings relief
    to my longing
    6 lines, 2 comments
  • Hearken to the reed-flute, how it complains,
    Lamenting its banishment from its home:
    73 lines, 3 comments
  • 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
  • Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.
    It doesn't matter.
    6 lines, 1 comment
  • Again I am raging,
    I am in such a state by your soul that every
    27 lines
  • A true lover is proved such by his pain of heart;
    No sickness is there like sickness of heart.
    29 lines, 3 comments
  • in this mirage of annihilation I am the fountain of life?”
    20 lines
  • Every day I bear a burden, and I bear this calamity for a purpose:
    I bear the discomfort of cold and December's snow in hope of spring.
    13 lines, 2 comments
  • I don't need
    a companion who is
    35 lines
  • You who are not kept anxiously awake for love's sake, sleep on.
    In restless search for that river, we hurry along;
    13 lines
  • I was dead, then alive.
    Weeping, then laughing.
    18 lines, 2 comments
  • How long will you think about this painful life?
    How long will you think about this harmful world?
    5 lines
  • I am a sculptor, a molder of form.
    In every moment I shape an idol.
    17 lines, 3 comments
  • "I am only the house of your beloved,
    not the beloved herself:
    14 lines
  • I am part of the load
    Not rightly balanced
    23 lines
  • I closed my eyes to creation when I beheld his beauty, I became
    intoxicated with his beauty and bestowed my soul.
    17 lines, 2 comments
  • I have a fire for you in my mouth, but I have a hundred seals on my tongue.
    19 lines, 4 comments
  • I have been tricked by flying too close
    to what I thought I loved.
    15 lines
  • I have got out of my own control, I have fallen into unconsciousness; in my utter unconsciousness how joyful I am with myself!
    The darling sewed up my eyes so
    8 lines, 2 comments
  • see so deeply within myself.
    Not needing my eyes, I can see everything clearly.
    4 lines
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