گل پژمردہ
تھی کبھی موج صبا گہوارہء جنباں ترانام تھا صحن گلستاں میں گل خنداں ترا
English translation
The winds’ soft ripples cradled you and rocked your bygone hours; And your name once was Laughing Rose in the country of flowers.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
گہوارہء جنباں: ہلنے والا جھولا، پالنا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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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