Note: Translated by Rebecca Gould from the Persian; published in her book After Tomorrow the Days Disappear: Ghazals and Other Poems (Northwestern University Press, 2016). The five ghazals are No. 9 (دوستان در سرم امروز هوایی دگر است - Friends, today in my head, desire is something else), No. 17 (روی گل از هوا نَمی دارد - The flower's petal is moistened by rain), No. 21 (پیر شدیم و نشد شور جوانی ز سر - Although we aged, the passion of youth did not arrive), No. 36 (اگر شبی به سر کوی تو مقام کنم - If one evening I stood on top of your mountain), No. 42 (ای غمت آشنای دیرینه - The sorrow of knowing you is an old friend).