مرزا غالب
گیسوئے اردو ابھی منت پذیر شانہ ہےشمع یہ سودائی دل سوزی پروانہ ہے
English translation
The lock of Urdu's hair still craves for combing this candle still craves for moth's heart-felt pathos.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 12 of 15 in “مرزا غالب” (Mirza Ghalib) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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