Rudaki رودکی
court poet · Samanid Central Asia · 858?–941
A court poet of Bukhara, called the father of Persian poetry. In old age he was pushed out of the court and died in poverty.
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earlier 10th century · A poem urging a king who had stayed long abroad to go home to Bukhara. The king is said to have mounted his horse without stopping to put on his boots
The scent of the Muliyan stream keeps coming to me. The memory of a kind friend keeps coming to me. The sands of the Oxus and its rough road feel like silk beneath my feet.
بوی جوی مولیان آید همی
یاد یار مهربان آید همی
ریگ آموی و درشتی راه او
زیر پایم پرنیان آید همیA poem of Rudaki
earlier 10th century
Every tooth I had wore down and fell out. They were not teeth. No, they were shining lamps.
مرا بسود و فرو ریخت هر چه دندان بود
نبود دندان، لابل چراغ تابان بودRudaki's poem "Old Age"
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