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The Rose with its redolent petals

Mirza Ghalib, Mirza Ghalib poetry, Muslim / Sufi, Muslim / Sufi poetry, poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry by Mirza Ghalib
(1797 - 1869) Timeline

English version by
Riaz Ahmad

Original Language
Urdu
Muslim / Sufi
19th Century

The Rose with its redolent petals
The Water lily with its robe of virgin white
These have surely come to us in transmigration
Of but a few of those
Endowed with sublime beauty and grace.
     Some embrace death to sprout again
     But most, forever, in dust remain.

 

 

 

Themes

  Death
  Lotus
  Rose
  Sexual Union
  Spring Blossom


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East Window: Poems from Asia, Translated by W. S. Merwin
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Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib, by Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib / Translated by Robert Bly
Mirza Ghalib: A Creative Biography, by Natalia Il'inichna Prigarina
The Oxford India Ghalib: Life, Letters and Ghazals, by Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib / Edited by Ralph Russel

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