The Love Poems of Rumi: Translated by Nader Khalili

For more than eight centuries, Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi--commonly referred to simply as Rumi--has enchanted and enthralled readers from every faith and background with his universal themes of love, friendship, and spirituality, which he seamlessly wove into resplendent poetry. The verses herein perfectly express and are centered on the theme of love, along with the quest, desire, and deeper meanings of love for not only ourselves, but also of our fellow humankind.   The Sweetheartthe sweetheartwho is blocking my sleepdemands tears on my kneesthrowing me silentlyinto the waveschanging the waterto liquid sweet