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Faiz Ahmed Faiz's Poetry, by first line

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  • We Who Were Executed
    (After reading the letters of Julius and Ether Rosenberg)
    I longed for your lips, dreamed of their roses:
    34 lines
  • Highway
    A despondent highway is stretched,
    its eyes set on the far horizon
    10 lines, 2 comments
  • My Heart, My Traveler with English Translation
    Dil e man Musafir e man
    Meray dil meray musafir
    47 lines, 3 comments
  • Do Not Ask My Love
    Do not ask, my love, for the love we had before:
    You existed, I told myself, so all existence shone,
    18 lines
  • Tonight
    Do not strike the chord of sorrow tonight!
    Days burning with pain turn to ashes.
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • "Dont ask me for the same love, my sweetheart"
    Dont ask me for the same love, my sweetheart
    I thought that life was radiant because of you
    23 lines, 4 comments
  • Some Lover To Some Beloved!
    Down the memory lanes, on which
    you've strolled since ages past
    21 lines, 2 comments
  • A Prison Evening
    Each star a rung,
    night comes down the spiral
    28 lines, 3 comments
  • Ghazal
    I am being accused of loving you, that is all
    It is not an insult, but a praise, that is all
    21 lines, 22 comments
  • Stanza
    If they snatch my ink and pen,
    I should not complain,
    7 lines, 1 comment
  • Wasteland Of Solitude
    In the wasteland of solitude, my love, quiver
    shadows of your voice, illusions of your lips.
    13 lines
  • We, Who Were Slain In Unlit Pathways
    Inspired by the letters of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
    Wishing for the roses of your lips
    37 lines, 2 comments
  • Solitude
    Is someone there, oh weeping heart? No, no one there.
    Perhaps a traveler, but he will be on his way.
    8 lines
  • It Is Spring Again
    It is spring, And the ledger is opened again.
    From the abyss where they were frozen,
    12 lines
  • Loved a little, Worked a little…
    Ku’ch Ishaq Ki’ya Ku’ch Kaam Ki’ya.
    Who Log Bohat Khush Qismat Th’ay,
    24 lines, 3 comments
  • Last Night
    Last night your lost memory visited my heart
    as spring visits the wilderness quietly,
    4 lines, 1 comment
  • The Incarceration Of Loneliness
    On the far horizon waved some flicker of light
    My heart, a city of suffering, awoke in a state of dream
    20 lines, 3 comments
  • Quatrain (With English Translation)
    Original Urdu
    Raat yunh dil mein teri khoee hui yaad aayee
    16 lines, 7 comments
  • Before You Came
    Original Urdu
    tum jo naa aa'e the to har chiiz vahii thii kih jo hai
    56 lines, 4 comments
  • Loneliness
    Someone is at the door again, my weeping heart, no, no one
    Perhaps a passerby, who will go somewhere else
    11 lines, 11 comments
  • Speak
    Speak, your lips are free.
    Speak, it is your own tongue.
    13 lines, 3 comments
  • My Interview
    The wall has grown all black, upto the circling roof.
    Roads are empty, travellers all gone. Once again
    14 lines
  • When Autumn Came
    This is the way that autumn came to the trees:
    it stripped them down to the skin,
    20 lines, 4 comments
  • Let Me Think
    You ask me about that country whose details now escape me,
    I don't remember its geography, nothing of its history.
    6 lines, 1 comment
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