✒️ Poetry of the Day

Verses of Tuesday 27 October

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اردو شاعری · Urdu

ہزاروں خواہشیں ایسی کہ ہر خواہش پہ دم نکلے

بہت نکلے مرے ارمان لیکن پھر بھی کم نکلے

— Mirza Ghalib

Roman Urdu & meaning

Hazaron khwahishen aisi ke har khwahish pe dam nikle

Bahut nikle mere armaan lekin phir bhi kam nikle

A thousand desires, each one worth dying for; many of my wishes came true, and still they were too few.

English poetry

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate,

I am the captain of my soul.

— William Ernest Henley, Invictus