LXXV. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Like as I my dear one love, there will not be another so loving:Like as I am disconsolate for her, ...
Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems on Love (24 Poems)
LXVI. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Thy society is like unto the sea, and I, a fish therein;But, separated from thee, I lament and bewail always.Weeping, ...
XXIV. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
It is the sweet spring time, and I am separated from my beloved!Alas! alas! that thou passest away, O spring, ...
XLIII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Gentle breeze of the morn! shouldst thou pass over Khairabad,Or should thy course lead thee by Sara'e, on the banks ...
LXV. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Let the mouth of the liar, forsooth, be filled with dust;But kiss the man's mouth, that uttereth truthful words!Every deed ...
LIII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
By the laughter of the happy and the gay, I vow!And by the lamentations of the woe-begone, I vow!By the ...
LXXVIII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
The vicious are vicious, while yet in the womb of their mothers;And vile and vicious are they, when their mothers ...
XCV. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Account him a good man, who, in heart, is innocent and pure;For modesty and uprightness are manifest in him always.He, ...
XLVII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Separation turneth sweet existence bitter unto man-It layeth the very vitals upon fierce, devouring flames!Whatever strength and energy the heart ...
XV. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Wine's intoxication soon cometh, and as quickly disappeareth;But the eternal inebriation leaveth not the inebriated one.Tho', in the world, my ...
XCII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
It is false that aught of evil or misfortune proceedeth from the stars-All good and evil-weal and woe-emanate from the ...
LVIII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
The sword that is sharpened, without doubt, is for smiting; is it not?The locks that are curled, certes, are for ...
LXX. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Whoso like unto the dust, may not be prostrate at the threshold,For them, there will be no approach unto heaven ...
IV. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
My beloved is offended: would there were any one who would conciliate her!Arise quickly, O mediator! for my heart is ...
VII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Again the minstrel's rebeck toucheth the heart profoundly;For it discovereth new and fresh strains of melodious harmony.Leave the monk in ...
LXVII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Upon the difficult path of love, there is exceeding peril:Every footstep I take thereon, my life in danger I place.Shouldst ...
XLV. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
I am intoxicated! I am a worshipper of wine! I indulge! I indulge!Give ear, O censor! dost hear me? I ...
LXXXVIII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Of them, who always placed upon their heads the cap of vanity,The black hair hath now become, like unto white ...
LXXXVII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
When of the circumstances of the wise are the ignorant aware,Who, through their own foolishness, are worthless and despicable too?A ...
XCVII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
I am of those eyes of thine enamoured-look thou upon me!I am the Hindu slave of thy locks; but dispose ...
LXXVII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Since those dark eyes of thine are such enchanters,My boastings of devotion and piety are wholly unjust.With these eyes I ...
XLIV. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
I never will carry my face unto the mirror again,Nor will I again anoint mine eyes with antimony!Never more will ...
II. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
What wonderfully delicious wine is this,Which the cupbearer, with welcome, presents!The laughing of the bud in the parterre were impossible,Did ...
III. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Spring hath returned: the narcissus in the garden wantoneth,And the breeze of the morning, the spikenard disordereth.For five short days, ...