رات اور شاعر
دریا کی تہ میں چشم گرادب سو گئی ہےساحل سے لگ کے موج بے تاب سو گئی ہے
English translation
At the bottom of the river the whirlpool’s eye is asleep’ by the river bank the restless wave has fallen asleep.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
چشم گرداب: بھنور کی آنکھ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 14 in “رات اور شاعر” (The Night And The Poet) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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