Motif
beloved as healing sweetness
beloved_as_healing_sweetness
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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The Persian Mystics: Jámí THE FREEING OF ZULAIKHA'S SOUL / BREAKING THE IDOL / ZULAIKHA'S YOUTH RETURNS / ZULAIKHA'S WISH; lines 1672-1683 confidence: medium
The speaker imagines lying in cypress shade and receiving sweetness from the addressee's ruby-colored lip.
The speaker describes sweetness from the beloved's lip and calls the desired nearness balm for her wounded heart.
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