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When the Smiling Rose Looks at You in Spring

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This recording features Iraj Anvar. Iraj teaches Persian Literature at Brown and has translated this poem for YES! Magazine. Iraj is also the translator of poetry of Rumi: Forty Eight Ghazals of Rumi.

Listen to Iraj Anvar read a poem of the Persian poet Hafez in Farsi. 1.24 minutes

Listen to Iraj Anvar read his English translation. 1.38 minutes




YES! photo iconPHOTO DIARY: See a picture of the Mausoleum of Hafez in Shiraz and more from Rick Steves' trip to Iran.




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YES! Magazine encourages you to make free use of this article by taking these easy steps. Hafez. (2008, July 11). When the Smiling Rose Looks at You in Spring. Retrieved February 11, 2012, from YES! Magazine Web site: http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/prevent-war-with-iran/2786. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License Creative Commons License


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