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These divine verses

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

These divine verses,
As I write
Are
The hallowed revelations
Descending
From on high
The sound of the scribe's pen
In the stillness of the night is indeed
The heavenly muse
Uttering her immortal words

 

 

 

Themes

  Eternal Life
  Night
  Silence
  Sound
  Stillness


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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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