Motif
Love as fire and longing as thirst for wine
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A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Lovesickness and Longing. 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 TRANSLATED BY / GERTRUDE LOWTHIAN BELL / LONDON / WILLIAM HEINEMANN; lines 66-125 confidence: medium
The speaker says 'we' laugh, warm at Love's fire, thirst for wine, sing in Grief's choir, asks Hafiz to sing wisdom from joy and sorrow, and imagines wreaths upon his grave.
The collective speaker warms at Love's fire and thirsts for wine.
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