گل پژمردہ
کس زباں سے اے گل پژمردہ تجھ کو گل کہوںکس طرح تجھ کو تمنائے دل بلبل کہوں
English translation
How shall I call you now a flower? Tell me, oh withered rose! How call you that beloved for whom the nightingale’s heart glows?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
گل پژمردہ: مرجھایا ہوا پھول۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 6 in “گل پژمردہ” (A Withered Rose) 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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