گل پژمردہ
تیرے احساں کا نسیم صبح کو اقرار تھاباغ تیرے دم سے گویا طبلہء عطار تھا
English translation
With the dawn breezes that received your favours you once played; like a perfumer’s vase your breath sweetened the garden glade.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
طبلہء عطار: عطر فروخت کرنے والے کا صندوقچہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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