شمع اور شاعر
اڑتی پھرتی تھیں ہزاروں بلبلیں گلزار میںدل میں کیا آئی کہ پابند نشیمن ہو گئیں
English translation
Thousands of nightingales were flying about in the rose-garden; what happened to them that they confined to the nests have become?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
پابند نشيمن: آشیانوں میں بیٹھیں۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 35 of 86 in “شمع اور شاعر” (The Candle 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.
Read it in the poem۳۵ / ۸۶