بیار بادہ کہ گردون بکام ما گردید
عیار معرفت مشتری است جنس سخنخوشم از آنکہ متاع مرا کسی نخرید
English translation
Verse is such a thing as tests the buyer’s judgment. I am glad that no one buys my poetry.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 6 in “بیار بادہ کہ گردون بکام ما گردید” (Biayaar baadah ke gardoon be kaam ma gardid) in the section The Wine Remaining, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
Read it in the poem۵ / ۶