کوشش ناتمام
فرقت آفتاب میں کھاتی ہے پیچ و تاب صبحچشم شفق ہے خوں فشاں اختر شام کے لیے
English translation
The dawn is vexed by separation from the sun; the twilight's eye is raining blood for the evening star.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 6 in “کوشش ناتمام” (The Unsuccessful Effort) in the section Poems of Period 1905-08, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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