شمع اور شاعر
رہزن ہمت ہوا ذوق تن آسانی ترابحر تھا صحرا میں تو، گلشن میں مثل جو ہوا
English translation
Your love for indulgence became a robber of courage. You were an ocean in wilderness, in garden a brook you became.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 47 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 poem۴۷ / ۸۶