Song Urdu Poems

Punjabi Rap Lyrics
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Excerpts from "Cordoba"
by Allama Iqbal
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch



Withered Roses
by Allama Iqbal
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

What shall I call you,
but the nightingale's desire?

The...

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I Cannot Remember My Mother
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
 
I cannot remember my mother,
yet sometimes in the middle of my playing
a melody...

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Majrooh Sultanpuri translations of Urdu poems into English

I'm like a commodity being priced in the market-place:
every eye ogles me like a buyer's.
—Majrooh Sultanpuri, loose translation...

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Near Sainthood
by Mirza Ghalib
translation by Kanu V. Prajapati and Michael R. Burch

On the subject of mystic philosophy, Ghalib,
your words might have seemed deeply profound
and we...

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Last Night
by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
translation by Michael R. Burch

Last night, your memory stole into my heart ...
as spring sweeps uninvited through barren gardens,
as morning breezes...

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Darkness and anguish, O stars divine
Radiant moon, endless night sublime
Keep watch over my heart, Lord
From life's bondage keep me in dream

Sit on my right...

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Not by request
Not even my best,
Hoping you'll just select a poem
With no sense in the title...
No clue in the first line
That it is divine.
Pick one...

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Searching Deeply
(Rubiyat)

Searching for answers here below
Trying hard not to make a show
Oh how lift questions flood the mind
Thoughts within continue to grow

Thinking within where things...

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Kawaali or Kawali  ( A form of Singing very popular in India and Pakistan )

SAMPLE OF A KAWAALI - ONE CAN HEAR ON U...

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