حور وشاعر

چو نظر قرار گیرد بہ نگار خوبروئےتپد آن زمان دل من پی خوبتر نگاری

English translation

The moment my eyes light upon a pretty face, my heart begins to long for one prettier still.

Translated by Mustansir Mir

About this couplet

This is couplet 6 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 poem

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