شمع اور شاعر
دیدہء خونبار ہو منت کش گلزار کیوںاشک پیہم سے نگاہیں گل بہ دامن ہو گئیں
English translation
Why should the blood letting eye ingratiated to the rose garden be? With continuous tears the eyes fully satiated with embers have become.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
خون برسانے والی آنکھ۔ ديدہء خونبار:
About this couplet
This is couplet 37 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 poem۳۷ / ۸۶