✒️ Poetry of the Day

Verses of Saturday 24 October

A sher from the masters of Urdu poetry and a verse from English literature, every day. Read, share it on WhatsApp, or save it as a picture.

اردو شاعری · Urdu

لائی حیات آئے قضا لے چلی چلے

اپنی خوشی نہ آئے نہ اپنی خوشی چلے

— Sheikh Ibrahim Zauq

Roman Urdu & meaning

Laai hayaat aaye qaza le chali chale

Apni khushi na aaye na apni khushi chale

Life brought us and we came; death takes us and we go. We neither came nor leave by our own choice.

English poetry

O my Luve is like a red, red rose

That's newly sprung in June;

— Robert Burns, A Red, Red Rose