Motif
arduous task to win the beloved
arduous_task_to_win_the_beloved
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
sufi
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Poems from the Divan of Hafiz XLIII / NOTES / XVIII / XXIII; lines 3646-3675 confidence: high
The King tells Ferhad he will give up Shirin if Ferhad cuts through the rock and makes a stream beyond the mountains flow through it.
Khusro promises to relinquish Shirin if Ferhad cuts through rock and channels a mountain stream through it.
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