One Way Of Love
I
All June I bound the rose in sheaves
Now, rose by rose,
I strip the
I
All June I bound the rose in sheaves
Now, rose by rose,
I strip the
They shut the road through the
Seventy years ago
Weather and rain have undone it again,
And now you would never
Women is strange
You take my tip;
I'm wise
I know enough to know I'll never
A maiden sat at her window wide,
Pretty enough for a Prince's bride,
Yet nobody came to claim her
She sat like a beautiful picture there,
Who knows the way to wonderland
Oh,
I know,
Oh,
Just a little every day—That's the way
Seeds in darkness swell and grow,
Tiny blades push through the snow;
Never any flower of
I bring ye love
ES
What will love do
NS
In highest way of heav'n the Sun did ride,
Progressing then from fair twins' golden place:
Having no scarf of clouds before his face,
But shining forth of heat in his chief pride;
The way that lovers use is this;
They bow, catch hands, with never a word,
And their lips meet, and they do kiss, — So I have heard
They queerly find some healing so,
The lover whose soul shaken
In some decuman billow of bliss,
Who feels his gradual-wading
Sink in some sudden hollow of sweet,
'My brother
' spake she to the sun; The kindred kisses of the
Were hers; her feet were set upon The moon
If slumber solved the
There is a way between voice and presencewhere information flows
In disciplined silence it opens
With wandering talk it closes
Excerpt from the translations of Rumi by Coleman Barks