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 Sadness (23 Poems)
XLI. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Should any one speak about intellect and ability, certainly, I possess them;But since good fortune assisteth me not, unto whom ...
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, ...
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, ...
XXIX. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
What numbers of boats in this river's depths have sunk and disappeared,A single plank of which, even shouldst thou search, ...
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 ...
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 ...
XVII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Tho' the miser's house may contain the water of immortality;Still, like unto the deadliest poison, is its effect on me.Moses ...
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 ...
VIII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
When towards his father a son acteth perfidiously,After what manner, to others, will he sincerity show?See, what further perfidy must ...
LXXIX. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
However tortuously the snake moveth about,It proceedeth straight enough unto its hole.Awaken from the sleep of thoughtlessness;For pleasant existence is ...
LXXXII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Such an amount of misery is there in my family this day,That the world is amazed and confounded, at the ...
LIX. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Every misfortune that befell me, throughout the whole period of my life,When examined carefully, I found it was all the ...
LXXXV. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
I went and turned anchorite-such is my case, such my situation-My sole worldly wealth this broken bowl within my hand, ...
LXXXIX. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Of the preciousness of youth what doubt can be entertained?The period of old age is pregnant with infirmities and defects!Every ...
LXXXI. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
What is it, but a sound and healthy body,Which, more than empire and sovereignty, is preferred?Altho' the world's wealth is ...
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 ...
Superior (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
The Afghans are far superior to the Mughals at the sword,Were but the Afghans, in intellect, a little discreet,If the ...
XCIII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Wherever thou reclinest, that place a parterre of flowers becomethWhen thou in the mead roamest, the breast of the tulip ...
XXXII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
There is lamentation everywhere, from the hand of death!In every place, in every habitation, from the hand of death!'The form ...
LXIV. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Whether it is the wise man, or the ignorant-the honest man, or the robber,I do not see any one a ...
Immortal Youth (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
MY two-and-sixty years are flown,Swift years of sorrow and delight,And now my hair, no longer black,Is turned at last a ...