Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
A Mother's Dream
As I slept one night I saw this dreamWhich further increased my vexationI dreamt I was going somewhere on the wayDark it was and impossible to find..
© Allama Muhammad Iqbal
Pathos Of Love
O Pathos of Love! You are a glossy pearlBeware, you should not appear among strangersThe theatre of your display is concealed under the veilThe..
© Allama Muhammad Iqbal
Said The Coal To A Diamond
My stuff is so vile, I am less than dustwhile your gleam rends the mirror's heart.My darkness lights the chafing-dishbefore I am incinerated. A..
© Allama Muhammad Iqbal
A Mountain And A Squirrel
A mountain was saying this to a squirrel'Commit suicide if you have self-respectYou are insignificant, still so arrogant, how strange!You are neither..
© Allama Muhammad Iqbal
A Spider And A Fly
One day a spider said to a fly'Though you pass this way dailyMy hut has never been honored by youBy making a chance visit inside by youThough..
© Allama Muhammad Iqbal
A Longing
O Lord! I have become weary of human assemblages!When the heart is sad no pleasure in assemblages can beI seek escape from tumult, my heart..
© Allama Muhammad Iqbal
I Desire
I want to have the extremes of your Love,See, how silly am I, wishing for unachievable.I don't care if you maltreat me or promise to unveil your..
© Allama Muhammad Iqbal
Age Of Infancy
The earth and sky were unknown worlds to meOnly the expanse of mother's bosom was a world to meEvery movement was a symbol of life's pleasure to meMy..
© Allama Muhammad Iqbal
A Cow And A Goat
There was a verdant pasture somewhereWhose land was the very picture of beautyHow can the beauty of that elegance be describedBrooks of sparkling..
© Allama Muhammad Iqbal
A Prayer
My invocations are sincere and true,They form my ablutions and prayers due.One glance of guide such joy and warmth cangrant,On marge of stream can..
© Allama Muhammad Iqbal
A Mother's Dream
As I slept one night I saw this dreamWhich further increased my vexationI dreamt I was going somewhere on the wayDark it was and impossible to find..
© Allama Muhammad Iqbal
Pathos Of Love
O Pathos of Love! You are a glossy pearlBeware, you should not appear among strangersThe theatre of your display is concealed under the veilThe..
© Allama Muhammad Iqbal
Said The Coal To A Diamond
My stuff is so vile, I am less than dustwhile your gleam rends the mirror's heart.My darkness lights the chafing-dishbefore I am incinerated. A..
© Allama Muhammad Iqbal
A Mountain And A Squirrel
A mountain was saying this to a squirrel'Commit suicide if you have self-respectYou are insignificant, still so arrogant, how strange!You are neither..
© Allama Muhammad Iqbal
A Spider And A Fly
One day a spider said to a fly'Though you pass this way dailyMy hut has never been honored by youBy making a chance visit inside by youThough..
© Allama Muhammad Iqbal
A Longing
O Lord! I have become weary of human assemblages!When the heart is sad no pleasure in assemblages can beI seek escape from tumult, my heart..
© Allama Muhammad Iqbal
I Desire
I want to have the extremes of your Love,See, how silly am I, wishing for unachievable.I don't care if you maltreat me or promise to unveil your..
© Allama Muhammad Iqbal
Catallus Cx - A Translation
Alfie, honest mistresses are lauded;The presents they receive they earn, but you,Who lead me on with lies, leave me defrauded.My anti-mistress..
© David Berman
End Of The Cruise
Ready to disembark,We're mostly puff and grey.Who else can sail this ark?Who else afford such play?Our bags are overpackedProtruding like our..
© David Berman
And The Others
Some find The Light in literature;Others in fine art,And some persist in being sureThe Light shines in the heart.Some find The Light in alcohol;Some..
© David Berman
The Moon
A web of sewer, pipe, and wire connects each house to the others.In 206 a dog sleeps by the stove where a small gas leak causes himto have visions;..
© David Berman
The Ultimate
When dreams have turned to dust and dust to slime;When all you ever were or hoped to beAppears as no more than a jest of time,A foolish jest, a..
© David Berman
Grace
As one who, reading late into the night,When overcome by sleep, turns off the lightAnd yields whatever he can sense by sightTo what the gates of..
© David Berman
Coincidence
For Mildred NashCoincidence. Perhaps coincidenceExplains it all. Why look far out, in deepFor mystical solutions to make senseOf how a dream..
© David Berman
Governors On Sominex
It had been four days of no weatheras if nature had conceded its genius to the indoors.They'd closed down the Bureau of Sad Endingsand my wife sat on..
© David Berman