Tughluqabad

Tughluqabad, from the Berger Collection

 

Ghazal 50

3 divan verses (out of 10); rhyming elements: ar angusht
composed 1816; Arshi #50

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{50,1}

afsos kih dandāñ kā kiyā rizq falak ne
jin logoñ kī thī dar-ḳhvur-e ʿaqd-e guhar angusht

{50,2}

kāfī hai nishānī tirā chhalle kā nah denā
ḳhālī mujhe dikhlā ke bah vaqt-e safar angusht

{50,3}

likhtā hūñ asad sozish-e dil se suḳhan-e garm
tā rakh nah sake koʾī mire ḥarf par angusht

Some unpublished verses from this ghazal:

{50,4x}

jātā hūñ jidhar sab kī uṭhe hai udhar angusht
yak-dast jahāñ mujh se bharā hai magar angusht

{50,5x}

har ġhunchah-e gul ṣūrat-e yak qat̤rah-e ḳhūñ hai
dekhā hai kisū kā jo ḥinā-bastah sar-angusht

{50,6x}

garmī hai zabāñ kī sabab-e soḳhtan-e jāñ
har shamʿa shahādat ko hai yāñ sar basar angusht

{50,7x}

ḳhūñ dil meñ jo mere nahīñ bāqī to phir us kī
jūñ māhī-e be-āb taṛaptī hai har angusht

{50,8x}

bas rutbe meñ bārīkī-o-narmī hai kih jūñ gul
ātī nahīñ panje meñ bas us ke naz̤ar angusht