Motif
beloved encoded in natural imagery
beloved_encoded_in_natural_imagery
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 INTRODUCTION / EDITORIAL NOTE / INTRODUCTION / THE BABY DARLING; lines 788-861 confidence: high
A solitary lover invokes sun, moon, hyacinth, roses, cypress, and weed; a puzzled hearer asks why he does not rave about his mistress instead.
The lover explicitly explains that sun, moon, hyacinth, rose, cypress, and weed are lover-language for the lady’s self or features and for his own lowly position.
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