Motif
celestial body responding to human beauty
celestial_body_responding_to_human_beauty
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Bride Contest and Suitor Trials. 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: Jalálu'd-dín Rúmí WHERE LOVE IS / THE LOVE OF THE BELOVED / THE LOVE OF THE SOUL AND THE LOVE OF THE BODY / DESTROY NOT EARTHLY BEAUTY: IT BEAUTIFIES THE SOUL; lines 1739-1752 confidence: medium
"The moon itself would weep to lose sight of it!"
The moon is imagined as weeping if it lost sight of the fair one's face.
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