A Persian Anthology (RLE Iran B) by Edward Granville Browne

Author:Edward Granville Browne [Browne, Edward Granville]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9781136840913
Google: JLW4H_3HZloC
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-05-23T04:41:48+00:00

IV

POEMS

OCCASIONAL

No. 1

AMIR KHUSRAW OF DELHI

A DOUBLE radiance left my star this year:

Gone are my brother and my mother dear

My two full moons have set and ceased to shine

In one short week through this ill luck of mine

By double torture I am racked of Fate,

By double blow doth Heaven me prostrate.

Double my mourning, double my despair;

Alas that I this double grief must bear!

Two brands for one like me is't not a shame?

One fire's enough to set the stack aflame.

One breast a double burden should not bear,

One head of headaches cannot hold a pair.

Beneath the dust my mother lieth dead;

Is't strange if I cast dust upon my head?

Where art thou, mother mine, in what strange place ?

Canst thou not, mother, show me thy dear face ?

From heart of earth come smiling forth once more,

And take compassion on my weeping sore!

Where‘er in days gone by thy feet did fall,

That place to me doth Paradise recall.

Thy being was the guardian of my soul,

The strong support which kept me safe and whole

Whene'er those lips of thine to speed were stirred

Ever to my advantage was thy word.

To-day thy silence makes its dumb appeal,

And lo, my lips are closed as with a seal !

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