Motif
grief overflowing as blood and water
grief_overflowing_as_blood_and_water
A motif of the Lament, Mourning, and Tragic Recognition family, within the sub-family Tears, Transformation, and Memorialization. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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sufi
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Poems from the Divan of Hafiz FROM THE DIVAN OF HAFIZ / XVIII / XXIII / XXVII; lines 2305-2334 confidence: high
The speaker's heart is too narrow for woe; his eyes shed tears of blood as a crimson stream across the desert; she says farewell, kisses the threshold, and says she goes.
The speaker's narrow heart overflows into tears of blood and a crimson stream across the desert.
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