حور وشاعر
دل رھروان فریبی بہ کلام نیش داریمگر اینکہ لذت او نرسد بہ نوک خاری
English translation
You charm travelers’ hearts with pointed talk except that, in the pleasure it gives, one cannot compare it with the sharp thorn.
Translated by Mustansir Mir
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 10 in “حور وشاعر” (The Houri And The Poet) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۱۰