X. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Through sorrow at the poor-spiritedness of the Afghans,I have abandoned greatness, and taken meanness in hand.Had this much even been ...
Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems on People (11 Poems)
As I Look On (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
As I look on I am amazedAt this worlds denizens,Just seeing what these dogs will doTo satisfy the flesh.Such dealing ...
XL. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
In this parterre, a single leaf of thine there will not be, O rose!Shouldst thou become acquainted with autumn's dire ...
XLVI. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
I become quite astonished with the people of the world,To see what these dogs do, for the sake of the ...
XXXI. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Neither doth any one here seek to avail himself of my abilities and experience,Nor are the capabilities of this country's ...
XCI. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
The faithlessness of the world hath become manifest unto me;Therefore, through the word 'friendship,' I have drawn my pen.Like as ...
LXII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Everywhere, throughout the world, I am become dishonoured and humiliatedHouse by house, my dissoluteness, and my profligacy, are manifest grown.That ...
XXI. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Unto the old man, who sigheth after youthfulness, say-What is this? laughest thou at thy beard, old man?Since in a ...
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 ...
XXXIX. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
A man is he, who is courageous, and whom success attendeth-Who is gentle and affable, unto all people, as long ...
LXXIII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
If the Afghan people are of the human race,In disposition and ways they are very Hindus.They are possessed of neither ...