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ای جفای تو ز دولت خوبتر ** و انتقام تو ز جان محبوبتر
- Oh, thy cruelty is better than felicity, and thy vengeance dearer than life.
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نار تو این است نورت چون بود ** ماتم این تا خود که سورت چون بود
- This is thy fire: how (what) must be thy light! This is (thy) mourning, so how (what) indeed must be thy festival!
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از حلاوتها که دارد جور تو ** وز لطافت کس نیابد غور تو
- In respect of the sweetnesses which thy cruelty hath, and in respect of thy beauty, no one gets to the bottom of thee.
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نالم و ترسم که او باور کند ** وز کرم آن جور را کمتر کند
- I complain, and (yet) I fear lest he believe me and from kindness make that cruelty less.
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عاشقم بر قهر و بر لطفش به جد ** بو العجب من عاشق این هر دو ضد 1570
- I am exceedingly enamoured of his violence and his gentleness: ’tis marvelous (that) I (am) in love with both these contraries.
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و الله ار زین خار در بستان شوم ** همچو بلبل زین سبب نالان شوم
- By God, if (I escape) from this thorn (of sorrow) and enter the garden (of joy), because of this I shall begin to moan like the nightingale.
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این عجب بلبل که بگشاید دهان ** تا خورد او خار را با گلستان
- This is a wondrous nightingale that opens his mouth to eat thorns and roses together.
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این چه بلبل این نهنگ آتشی است ** جمله ناخوشها ز عشق او را خوشی است
- What nightingale is this? (Nay), ’tis a fiery monster: because of (his) love all unsweet things are sweetness to him.
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عاشق کل است و خود کل است او ** عاشق خویش است و عشق خویش جو
- He is a lover of the Universal, and he himself is the Universal: he is in love with himself and seeking his own love.”’”
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صفت اجنحه‌‌ی طیور عقول الهی
- Description of the wings of the birds that are Divine Intelligences.
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قصه‌‌ی طوطی جان زین سان بود ** کو کسی کو محرم مرغان بود 1575
- Such-like is the tale of the parrot which is the soul: where is that one who is the confidant of (the spiritual) birds?