Perso Tajik Literature

We are no other than a moving row, Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go
Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held, In Midnight by the Master of the Show (Khayyam)

O world, this is how you treat your children:
At times like a mother, at times a stepmother. (Rudaki)

To know real appearance of wend,
Let wisdom be thy minister to fend. (Firdausi)

It is written on the tomb of Behram Gur:
‘A liberal hand is better than a strong arm.’ (Saadi)

The Poetry of Rudaki
Shahnama of Firdausi
The Book of Kings
Shahnameh in Italian
Shahnama's Manuscripts
Ibn Sina / Avicenna
Rubaiyat of Khayyam
Rubaiyat of Khayyam
The Bostan of Saadi
Golestan of Saadi

All Adam's race are members of one frame;
Since all, at first, from the same essence came.

When by hard fortune one limb is oppressed,
The other members lose their wonted rest:

If thou feel'st not for others' misery,
A son of Adam is no name for thee. (Saadi)

Early Persian Poetry
Literature of Persia
Some Persian Poets
Persian Poetry
The Persian Poets
Divan Shams Tabriz
Masnavi e Movlana
Divan of Hafiz
Ghazaliyat Hafiz
Persian Poets of Sindh