گورستان شاہی

نعرہ زن رہتی ہے کوئل باغ کے کاشانے میںچشم انساں سے نہاں، پتوں کے عزلت خانے میں

English translation

The cuckoo remains calling from the garden’s nest; remains hidden from the human eye in the leaves’ privacy.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 46 of 58 in “⁨گورستان شاہی⁩” (The Royal Cemetery) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

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