نسیم صبح
خمیدہ تا نشود شاخ او ز گردش منبہ برگ لالہ و گل نرم نرمک آویزم
English translation
Gently do I stroke the petals of the tulip and the rose, lest their stems should bend under my weight.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 5 in “نسیم صبح” (The Morning Breeze) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۵