شمع اور شاعر
گل بہ دامن ہے مری شب کے لہو سے میری صبحہے ترے امروز سے نا آشنا فردا ترا
English translation
My morning is adorned with the roses from my night’s toil; your tomorrow is unaware of the today of yours.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
گل بہ دامن: دامن میں پھول۔فردا: آنے والا کل۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 9 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.
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