Tughluqabad

Red Fort, from the Berger Collection

 

Ghazal 168

3 divan verses (out of 3); rhyming elements: ānī
composed 1821; Arshi #144

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{168,1}

jo nah naqd-e dāġh-e dil kī kare shuʿlah pāsbānī
to fusurdagī nihāñ hai bah kamīn-e be-zabānī

{168,2}

mujhe us se kyā tavaqquʿ bah zamānah-e javānī
kabhī kūdakī meñ jis ne nah sunī mirī kahānī

{168,3}

yūñ hī dukh kisī ko denā nahīñ ḳhūb varnah kahtā
kih mire ʿadū ko yā rab mile merī zindagānī