صبح کا ستارہ
زرد، رخصت کی گھڑی، عارض گلگوں ہو جائےکشش حسن غم ہجر سے افزوں ہو جائے
English translation
Whose rosy cheeks at departure's time may be turned pale; attraction of whose beauty by separation's sorrow may be enhanced.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 18 of 20 in “صبح کا ستارہ” (The Morning Star –Venus) 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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