موج دریا
میں اچھلتی ہوں کبھی جذب مہ کامل سےجوش میں سر کو پٹکتی ہوں کبھی ساحل سے
English translation
Sometimes I jump up due to attraction of the full moon; sometimes in excitement I strike my head on the shore.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
جذب مہ کامل: پورے چاند کی کشش۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 6 in “موج دریا” (Wave of the River) 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 poem۴ / ۶