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 Time (15 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, ...
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, ...
LXXIV. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Vain is his affectation respecting the end of his turban;For in the time of his manhood his condition is changed.The ...
LXIII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Be content with thine own lot, and do not always envy the fortune of others!Shouldst thou secure both these things, ...
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 ...
XXIII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
The skirt of fortune and prosperity cannot be seized by force!Is the blind man without reproach, if he apply antimony ...
XXV. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Although she quarreleth with me, by word of mouth-that dear one;Yet in her heart, that dear one entertaineth much kindness ...
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 ...
XXXV. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
There will be none of the world's vanities and ambitions within the tomb:Thine own good deeds will go with thee, ...
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 ...
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 ...
XXXVII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
I am well acquainted with Aurangzeb's justice, and equity-His orthodoxy in matters of faith-his self-denial and fasts;His own brothers, time ...
LX. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Whoso acquireth wealth, spendeth it, and bestoweth it, a man is he:Whoso hath a sword in his possession, the lord ...