| Heart! O Heart! (vocative with stress on the first syllable) | دلا |
| you saw; you did see, did you see? See! | دیدی |
| the Sun | خورشید |
| from cold night | از شب سرد |
| like fire | چو آتش |
| it brought its head up from ash(es) | سر ز خاکستر برآورد = سر از خاکستر برآورد |
| from (ze is the poetic form of az) | ز = از |
| like (classical pronunciation: chu, chun; modern pronunciation cho, chon) | چو = چون |
| rose. The words "hrodh" (Greek), "rosa" (Latin), "ward" (Arabic), "gol" (Persian), "wrd" Sogdian, are all cognates of *ward meaning "to grow". In modern Persian, gol means "flower". | گل |
| rose-colored | گلرنگ = گلگون |
| field, plain | دشت |
| poppy (flower) | شقایق |
| became ... from this blood | گشت ازین خون = از این خون گشت |
| to become (literary usage) | گشتن = شدن |
| Did you see that the sun raised its head... | دلا دیدی که خورشید ... سر ... برآورد |
| the world became a field of poppies | جهان دشت شقایق گشت |
| (You) see! Look how before (it happened that...) | نگر تا |
| bloody night | شب خونین = شب خونی |
| this bloody night made morning, the night was spent | این شب خونین سحر کرد |
| dawn, morning | سحر |
| before this bloody night made morning | تا این شب خونین سحر کرد |
| what daggers that | چه خنجرها که |
| dagger | خنجر |
| daggers passed through hearts (kard is singular because khanjer-hā is an inanimate plural) | خنجرها ... از دل‌ها گذر کرد |
| it/they passed (through) | گذر کرد |
| from each, from every | زهر = از هر |
| blood of heart, an instance of blood of heart (indefinite) | خون دلی |
| a cypress tree (indefinite) | سروی |
| Cypress tree (pronunciation: sarv) | سرو |
| it raised its stature | قدافراشت |
| stature (the Cypress symbolizes high stature) | قد |
| to raise | افراشتن |
| pheasant | تذرو = قرقاول |
| a pheasant | تذروی |
| melody | نغمه |
| to bring out, to take out | برداشتن |
| it brought out a melody | نغمه برداشت |
| sound of blood | صدای خون |
| voice, tune, melody, call | آواز |
| memory, memento, memorial, commemoration | یادگار |
| it is a memento of blood of Cypress | این یادگار خون سرواست = این یادگار خون سرو است |
| sound, voice, noise | صدا |