batch.motif.sufi-hafiz-divan-bell-gutenberg-l1276-l1415
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-hafiz-divan-bell-gutenberg-l1276-l1415
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
passage_locator:
label: LONDON / WILLIAM HEINEMANN / INTRODUCTION / FROM THE DIVAN OF HAFIZ; lines
1276-1415
start: '1276'
end: '1415'
translation: Poems from the Divan of Hafiz
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: Four lyric poems address a cup-bearer, tavern-keeper, beloved Lady, wind-messenger,
rose, and divine or personified Love. Recurrent images include wine, cups, tavern
threshold, road and departure, camel bells, sea and tears, garden flowers, wind
or lapwing as messenger, mirror, God’s image in the beloved’s face, milk on the
lips, life-giving waters, and Love’s dart.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The speaker calls on a cup-bearer to bring a praised bowl to thirsty lips
and says love seemed easy but has become difficult.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The speaker asks the wind to bring the fragrance of musk from the beloved’s
hair, but the speaker’s heart continues to weep tears of blood.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: A tavern-keeper counsels dyeing the prayer carpet with red wine and is described
as knowing the road and hostelry like a traveler.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Camel bells beyond the beloved’s gateway lament and call for the burden to
be bound again and for departure.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: High waves, a fearful clouded night, whirlpools, a drowning voice, and light-freighted
vessels reaching shore are described.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: The speaker reports receiving a dishonoured name and asks what cloak can cover
misery when others rehearse the speaker’s shame.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: The wise are cited as advising that if one attains the desire of life, one
should cast aside and abandon the world.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: A bird of gardens tells a newly blown rose to bow its head because many flowers
have bloomed and died; the rose replies that fading does not grieve it.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:9
text: The tavern step is named as the hostelry for one who would receive Love’s
diviner breath; the seeker must lie suppliant on the dusty threshold and shed
many tears for drinking from Life’s ruby goblet.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: In Irem’s sleeping garden, the morning wind moves through hyacinths; the speaker
asks for the cup called the mirror of the world and asks where Love is.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:11
text: Love’s secret is said not to lie on human lips, and Love’s dwelling-place
is described as remote and unrevealed.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:12
text: The speaker sends the east wind or lapwing to the Lady in Saba and says there
is no halting-place on Love’s road.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:13
text: The speaker offers life as a ransom to bring peace to the beloved and sends
sonnets, broken words, notes, and songs.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:14
text: A voice promises heavenly grace and says God the Creator is mirrored in the
addressee’s face, sending a divine image in the glass.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:15
text: The beloved’s eyes, hair, lips, mouth, and brows are praised through images
of narcissus, milk, wit, sweets, a fountain of Life’s waters, a well of tears,
and Love’s dart laid by an Archer.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Hafiz / lyric speaker
description: The speaking voice calls for wine, laments difficult love, shame, tears,
absence from the beloved, and sends greetings and songs.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Cup-bearer / Saki
description: A wine-bringing figure addressed by the speaker and asked to bring
the cup or grace the feast with heavenly wine.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Tavern-keeper
description: A counselor who tells the addressee to dye the prayer carpet with red
wine and is said to know the road and hostelry.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Beloved / Lady / Heart of my heart
description: A remote beloved addressed as the speaker’s heart, Lady in Saba, and
praised for hair, face, lips, mouth, eyes, and brows.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Love
description: Personified Love is associated with a road, a diviner breath, a secret,
a remote dwelling-place, and a dart.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:11
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Wise writers
description: Authorities cited as having written counsel to abandon the world after
attaining life’s desire.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Bird of gardens
description: A bird who speaks to the newly blown rose about other flowers having
bloomed and died.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Rose
description: A newly blown rose that replies to the bird that being born to fade
does not grieve its heart.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Wind / breezes / lapwing
description: The wind is asked to carry fragrance or greetings, moves through Irem’s
garden, sighs and weeps, and is sent as a messenger to Saba.
role_refs:
- role:8
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:7
- ev:9
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: God the Creator
description: Named as mirrored in the addressee’s face and as the source of a divine
image seen in the glass.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
roles:
- id: role:1
label: lover-speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker describes difficult love, longing, tears, shame, and absence
from the beloved.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: role:2
label: wine-bringer
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The cup-bearer or Saki is addressed to bring the bowl or heavenly wine.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
- id: role:3
label: tavern counselor
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The tavern-keeper gives counsel involving red wine and prayer carpet and
is credited with knowledge of road and hostelry.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:4
label: beloved addressee
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The beloved is repeatedly addressed and sought, and the speaker sends greetings,
life, and songs to her.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: role:5
label: personified principle of love
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Love is given a road, breath, secret, dwelling-place, and dart.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:11
- id: role:6
label: seeker or traveler
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker is placed amid road, hostelry, departure, shore, and Love’s road
imagery.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:9
- id: role:7
label: wisdom authority
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The wise are cited for written counsel about desire and abandoning the world.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:8
label: speaking or carrying bird
assigned_to:
- fig:7
- fig:9
basis: The garden bird speaks to the rose; the east wind is called a lapwing and
sent to the Lady.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:9
- id: role:9
label: flower respondent
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The rose replies to the bird about fading and true love.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:10
label: messenger
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The wind is asked to carry fragrance and greetings to the beloved.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:9
- id: role:11
label: creator reflected in beloved
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: God the Creator is said to be mirrored in the beloved’s face.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: wine, bowl, cup, and goblet
literal_form: Bowl, red wine, cup, heavenly wine, and Life’s ruby goblet.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:6
- ev:8
- ev:10
- id: sym:2
label: tavern and threshold
literal_form: Tavern-keeper, tavern step, hostelry, dusty threshold, and feast.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:6
- ev:8
- id: sym:3
label: road, burden, and departure
literal_form: Road, hostelry, camel bells, bound burden, departure, and Love’s road
with no halting-place.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:9
- id: sym:4
label: sea, waves, whirlpools, shore, and tears
literal_form: High waves, whirlpools, drowning voice, vessels at shore, sea of tears,
well of tears, and heart’s tears.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:8
- ev:11
- id: sym:5
label: garden, rose, hyacinth, and Irem
literal_form: Garden close, newly blown rose, Irem’s magic garden, hyacinth tresses,
and morning wind in garden alleys.
associated_figures:
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: sym:6
label: wind or lapwing messenger
literal_form: Wind from the east, Lapwing of the day, breezes, north winds and east
bearing greetings.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:7
- ev:9
- id: sym:7
label: mirror and glass
literal_form: Cup called the mirror of the world, God mirrored in the beloved’s
face, and God’s image in the glass.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:10
- id: sym:8
label: milk and life-giving waters
literal_form: Milk on the lips, mouth as fountain, and Life’s waters flowing.
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs:
- milk
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: sym:9
label: dart and archer
literal_form: Love’s dart laid in the beloved’s bent brows by the Archer.
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Cup-bearer, difficult love, and tavern departure
summary: The speaker asks for the cup, recalls the beloved’s hair, hears tavern
counsel about red wine, and hears camel bells calling for renewed departure.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Stormy waters, shame, and renunciatory counsel
summary: The speaker describes dangerous waters and distant vessels, then moves
to public shame and the counsel of the wise to abandon the world after attaining
desire.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Rose, tavern threshold, and Love’s hidden place
summary: A garden bird and rose discuss bloom and fading; the poem then presents
the tavern threshold, Life’s goblet, Irem’s garden, the hidden secret of Love,
and heavenly wine.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:5
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:4
- sym:5
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: scene:4
label: Messenger wind to Saba and divine image
summary: The speaker sends the wind or lapwing to the Lady in Saba, sends greetings
and songs, offers life as ransom, and hears a voice promise heavenly grace and
God’s image in the beloved’s face.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:9
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:3
- sym:6
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: scene:5
label: Praise of the beloved’s body and life waters
summary: The beloved’s eyes, hair, lips, mouth, and brows are praised through narcissus,
milk, sweets, a fountain of Life’s waters, tears, death near life, and Love’s
dart.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:8
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Mystical love quest on a difficult road
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
- departure
basis: The passage repeatedly frames love as a hard road with travelers, hostelry,
renewed burden, departure, and no halting-place on Love’s road.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is lyric and symbolic rather than a narrative quest episode.
- id: motif:2
label: Wine and cup as mediators of counsel, love, and grace
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
- sacred_exchange
basis: The cup-bearer, tavern-keeper, Saki, wine, prayer carpet, Life’s goblet,
and heavenly wine are linked to counsel, Love’s breath, tears, and grace.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:6
- ev:8
- ev:10
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage does not explicitly explain the symbolic meaning of wine;
interpretation is based on repeated contextual use.
- id: motif:3
label: Remote divine or exalted beloved
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
basis: The beloved is remote, addressed as Heart of my heart and Lady in Saba, receives
messages and songs, and is connected with God’s image mirrored in the face.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
confidence: high
cautions: The beloved may be read as human, divine, or both; the extraction records
only passage-supported ambiguity.
- id: motif:4
label: Drowning in tears and dangerous waters
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The speaker’s tears, blood-like tears, stormy waves, whirlpools, drowning
voice, sea of tears, and well of tears recur as images of suffering.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:8
- ev:11
confidence: high
cautions: No available taxonomy motif family specifically names tears or drowning
as symbolic suffering.
- id: motif:5
label: Messenger bird or wind to the distant beloved
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The wind is asked to carry fragrance, breezes respond in the garden, and
the east wind or lapwing is sent to the Lady in far Saba with greetings.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:7
- ev:9
confidence: high
cautions: No specific available taxonomy reference for messenger bird or wind is
supplied.
- id: motif:6
label: Flower transience and lover’s speech
taxonomy_refs:
- seasonal_cycle
basis: The bird tells the rose many have bloomed and died, and the rose answers
that fading does not grieve its heart.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage mentions bloom and fading, but not a full seasonal cycle narrative.
- id: motif:7
label: World renunciation after attaining desire
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The wise counsel Hafiz that if he attains life’s desire he should cast the
world aside and abandon it.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The statement is brief and aphoristic; it is not expanded into a full
renunciation narrative.
- id: motif:8
label: Divine image in the beloved’s face
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
basis: A voice states that God the Creator is mirrored in the addressee’s face and
that God’s image is sent in the glass.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives the image directly but not a theological explanation.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The road, hostelry, burden, departure, and no-halting language supports comparison
with a mystical quest or departure pattern within the available motif families.
claim_level: same_motif
target: mystical_quest / departure motif families
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:9
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The poems are lyric sequences, not a continuous narrative itinerary.
- id: claim:2
claim: The cup-bearer, Saki, tavern, red wine, Life’s goblet, and heavenly wine
function as a recurring ritual or symbolic medium for love, counsel, tears, and
grace.
claim_level: same_function
target: wine-cup mediation in Sufi lyric mystical patterning
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:6
- ev:8
- ev:10
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage itself does not gloss the symbolism; the claim is limited
to functional recurrence in this passage.
- id: claim:3
claim: The beloved’s face mirroring God and receiving devotion-like messages supports
comparison with a divine beloved pattern.
claim_level: same_motif
target: divine_beloved motif family
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:11
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The beloved is not explicitly defined as divine throughout; the imagery
may also operate as courtly or human love poetry.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: Poem I, opening stanza
quote_or_summary: The speaker asks the Cup-bearer to bring the bowl, says love has
become difficult, seeks fragrance from the beloved’s musk-scented hair, and weeps
tears of heart’s blood.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: Poem I, tavern and camel-bell stanza
quote_or_summary: The Tavern-keeper advises dyeing the prayer carpet with red wine;
he is likened to one who knows road and hostelry; camel bells beyond the beloved’s
gateway call to bind the burden and depart.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: Poem I, storm-water stanza
quote_or_summary: The speaker describes high waves, a fearful clouded night, roaring
whirlpools, a drowning voice, and vessels that have already reached shore.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: Poem I, closing stanzas
quote_or_summary: 'The speaker laments a dishonoured name and public shame, then
cites the wise: if life’s desire is attained, the world should be cast aside and
abandoned.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: Poem II, rose and bird stanza
quote_or_summary: The bird of gardens tells a new rose that many have bloomed and
died; the rose says being born to fade does not grieve its heart and rebukes bitter
speech to a lover.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: Poem II, tavern-threshold stanza
quote_or_summary: The tavern step is called the hostelry; Love’s diviner breath
comes to those lying suppliant on the dusty threshold; one drinking from Life’s
ruby goblet threads the eyes with many tears.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: Poem II, Irem garden stanza
quote_or_summary: In Irem’s sleeping garden, morning wind stirs hyacinths; the speaker
asks for the cup, the mirror of the world, and for Love at the Throne of Djem;
the breezes sigh and weep that happiness sleeps.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: Poem II, closing stanza
quote_or_summary: Love’s secret is not on human lips and Love’s dwelling-place is
remote; the Saki is called to bring heavenly wine; patience and wisdom are drowned
in the speaker’s sea of tears.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: Poem III, opening and Love’s-road stanzas
quote_or_summary: The speaker sends the east wind, called the Lapwing of the day,
to the Lady in far Saba; no halting-place exists on Love’s road; greetings are
sent by north and east winds.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: Poem III, ransom, song, cup, and grace stanzas
quote_or_summary: The speaker sends life as ransom to bring the beloved peace, sends
songs and broken words, asks for the cup, and hears a voice promising heavenly
grace, God mirrored in the face, and a robe of honour and harnessed steed.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: Poem IV
quote_or_summary: 'The beloved’s eyes, hair, lips, mouth, and brows are praised:
sleep falls on narcissus-like eyes, milk is on the lips, the mouth is a fountain
of Life’s waters, a well of tears lies below, death is near life, and Love’s dart
is laid by the Archer.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied English translation passage. Motif
labels involving Sufi symbolic patterns require human review because the passage
is lyric, not expository, and does not always define its own symbolism.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
All evidence is summarized from the supplied public-domain passage; no external sources or unsupported taxonomy IDs were added.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-hafiz-divan-bell-gutenberg__l1276-l1415
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