The Best of Faiz by Faiz, Faiz Ahmed -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Foreword Poems

Naqsh-é-Faryadi

The Melody of Night Three Scenes Losing Both Worlds … Reflections Quatrains To My Love Given Away to Sorrow and Despair Tonight A Scene My Friend Ask Me Not for That Old Fervour To My Rival Loneliness I’ve Tried Camouflaging My Love’s Secret Again, I Am a Rival of Spring A Few Days More, My Love Dogs Speak Up! Poesy’s Domain We People Highway

Dast-é-Saba

Quatrains Hold On, Restless Heart My Friend, My Mate The Morning of Freedom Pen and Paper Neither Have You Come When the Scars of Memory Begin to Heal The Evening Star Has Burnt Out Two Loves Dedicated to Your Alleyways In My Heart Now Well Up It’s the Same Word of Passion Let There Be Some Clouds Prison: One Evening Remembrance

Zindan Nama

Ask Me Not About the Evening of Parting Rendezvous Quatrains Lending Colour to the Flowers Quatrains Casement Pain Will Creep in Soft-footed Quatrains Some Lover to His Beloved Ever Since I Have Been Waiting for You

Dast-é-Tah-é-Sang

Quatrain Evening Quatrain When Will Pain Cease? This Patient Breathless End of the Rain of Stones Where Will You Go? In Your Ocean Eyes The Colour of the Moment Stay With Me Quatrains

Sar-é-Vadi’ś Sina

Look at the City from Here! Blackout Let Me Think Heart Attack Quatrain Somewhere Near the Pillow When the Heart’s Bad Blood A Wish Anniversary

Shām-é-Shaihr-é-Yaran

Day and Night All That You Ever Said to Me If Pain Could Speak Quatrain Wash the Blood off Your Feet Evening, Be Gracious Some Love, Some Work

Méré Dil Méré Musafir

My Heart, My Fellow Traveller Today Again is Imagination Seeking a Word All the Flowers Have Withered Away Some Lover to His Beloved We Poets This is the Moment to Mourn Time We are Committed to Loyalty Paris What Shall We Do? Quatrains

Ghubār-é-Ayyām

Love’s Prisoners What’s To Be Done, You Tell Nobody around Tonight It Seems at This Moment … Thoughts of Turkish Poet Nazim Hikmat

Acknowledgements A Note on the Author A Note on the Translator