حور وشاعر

چو ز بادۂ بہاری قدحی کشیدہ خیزمغزلی دگر سرایم بہ ہوای نوبہاری

English translation

When I get up, having drunk a cup of wine matured by one spring, I begin to sing another verse, and long for yet another spring.

Translated by Mustansir Mir

About this couplet

This is couplet 8 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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