Аннотация:In lyric poetry the name of Yusuf became one of the traditional symbols of beauty and was widely used in love poetry. Well known episodes of Koranic subject as: brothers’ betrayal, Yusuf’s tree robes, Egyptian women cut their hands and so on also became poetic motifs and had a lot of modifications in Persian classic ghazals and qasidas, especially in Sufi texts. The comparison of these modifications in the Divans of two great Persian lyric poets Sa‘di and Hafiz shows what aspects of Yusuf’s theme were actual for each of them. In epic genre the story had many variants both prosaic and versified but the most famous one is Jami’s version composed in 15 century. The verse romances of Yusuf and Zulaykha by Jami is based on deep tradition of love stories and the author used the canonical feathers of this genre to transform Koranic narration into brilliant legend.