You are a flower garden in which all the flowers of earthly latitudes shine

Only once there is a holiday, once a year its turn, -
Your gaze, peri, an eternal holiday, an eternal holiday in the heart
pouring.
Roses shine once a year, bloom once a year,
For me, your beautiful face forever blooms with roses.
Only once a year do I pick violets in the flower garden,
And your caressing curls, I lost count of violets.
Only once a year do daffodils adorn the chest of the earth,
And your eyes, daffodils bloom all year round.
These black daffodils, a little woke up - bloom again,
And a simple narcissist, fading, will not shine with a new life.
Cypress is a proud handsome man, eternally slender, eternally fresh,
But in comparison with you, he is a hunchback, a crooked freak.
There are tulips in some gardens, roses, lilies in others,
You are a flower garden in which all the flowers of earthly latitudes shine.
Your blush is brighter than a rose, your neck is whiter than lilies,
Teeth - precious pearls, two rubies - scarlet mouth.
A crimson tulip suddenly bloomed out of a copper ore vein,
On the crimson, a coating appeared in a dark copper tone.
Curls around the flawless musk of your curls.
In the center - cinnabar lips, like a bright red fruit,
You are in motion - a quail, you are alone - a cypress,
You are the moon that overshadows all beauties in a round dance.
You are the moon in the mail of passion and with a quiver of gentle arrows,
Quail - with an intoxicating goblet, cypress that sings a song.
You have not chained loving hearts -
With every word you know how to throw fire and ice at them ...

Rudaki - Translation by V. Levin