Persian poet Shams al-Din Muhammad -Shirazi (circa -1325—circa l390), known as Hafiz wrote mainly in the ghazal form, creating mystical works whose meanings were both secular and religious. In Ghazal 38 he wrote:

I cease not from desire till my desire
Is satisfied; or let my mouth attain
My love's red mouth; or let my soul expire,
Sighed from those lips' that sought her lips in vain.
Others may find another love as fair;
Upon her threshold I have laid my head,
The dust shall cover me, still lying there,
When from my body life and love have fled.
My soul is on my lips ready to fly,
But grief beats in my heart and will not cease,
Because not once, not once before I die,
Will her sweet lips give all my longing peace.
My breath is narrowed down to one long sigh...