When I See Your Rosy Cheeks, A Ghazal Of Rumi In English Translation Poem by Ravi Kopra

Here is the literal translation from Persian into English from the web pages

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When You Reveal Those Rose-Colored Cheeks

Ghazal 171

When you reveal those rose-colored cheeks (of yours) , you
make the stones whirl from joy.

Put (your)head out from the veil once again, for the sake of
amazed lovers-

So that knowledge may lose the way, (and)the intellectual may
shatter (his)learning;

So that water may become a pearl from your reflection, (and)fire
may quit war.

With (the presence of)your beauty, I don't desire the (lovely
full)moon or those few little hanging lanterns (in the heavens) .

(And)with (the presence of)your face, I don't call the ancient rusty
sky a "mirror."

You breathed into and created this narrow world4 in another form
once again.

O Venus, make that harp melodious again, in desire for his Mars-like eyes!