درد عشق
گویا زبان شاعر رنگیں بیاں نہ ہوآواز نے میں شکوہ فرقت نہاں نہ ہو
English translation
The flowery-styled poet's tongue should not be talking. Separation's complaint should not be concealed in flute's music.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
آواز نے: بانسری کی آواز۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 of 13 in “درد عشق” (Pathos Of Love) 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 poem۷ / ۱۳