حور وشاعر
چکنم کہ فطرت من بہ مقام در نسازددل ناصبور دارم چو صبا بہ لالہ زاری
English translation
What can I do, for by nature I am not someone who can live for long in one place! My heart is restless, like the west wind in a field of tulips.
Translated by Mustansir Mir
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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.
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