پر ندے کی فر یاد

لگتی ہے چوٹ دل پر، آتا ہے یاد جس دمشبنم کے آنسوئوں پر کلیوں کا مسکرانا

English translation

My heart aches the moment I think of the buds' smile at the dew's tears.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 3 of 11 in “⁨پر ندے کی فر یاد⁩” (The Bird's Complaint) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

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