by Hafis (c1327 - 1390), as Hāfiẓ Shīrazī, Shams al-din Muḥammad
Translation © by Jonathan Holmes
At dawn I heard the tongue of the invisible
Language: English after the Persian (Farsi)
Swept up at every meeting [ ... ]
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Text Authorship:
- by Jonathan Holmes , copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hafis (c1327 - 1390), as Hāfiẓ Shīrazī, Shams al-din Muḥammad [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Liza Lim (b. 1966), "At dawn I heard the tongue of the invisible", 2011, from Tongue of the Invisible, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
This text was added to the website: 2026-02-14
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