Who Stole My Heart From Far Away?

Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor 1887 (village of Mitrigam, Pulwama) – 1952 ( Kashmir Valley)



Who stole my heart from far away ?
    Bring back that youthful heart to me !
    
    Like a bulbul trapped in a clapnet,
    My heart is caught in a snare of curls.
    
    Lovers call the heart a precious ruby.
    Well, we'll have it valued in beauty's street.
    
    Tell me, friend, where the heart should go
    If before you lie both sacred texts and sensuous charms !
    
    Love gives he heart unceasing pain.
    We must rock the heart in the bosom of love !
    
    He's a king who protects the heart's brittle glass:
    He's wise for whom it's the precious Jam-e-la Am
    
    For a meaningful life and a mind without fetters,
    Infuse new blood into your old veins !
    
    Mahjoor, have a happy heart, qnwraped by doubt,
    And the world will reflect the Joy within you !

[Translated by: Triloki Nath Raina]

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 04, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XA BX AB XX XX XX XX BX X
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 820
Words 137
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1

Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor

Peerzada Ghulam Ahmad (August 1887 − 9 April 1952), known by his pen name as Mahjoor, was a poet of the Kashmir Valley, along with contemporaries, Zinda Kaul, Abdul Ahad Azad, and Dinanath Nadim.[2][3][4] He is especially noted for introducing a new style into Kashmiri poetry and for expanding Kashmiri poetry into previously unexplored thematic realms.[5] In addition to his poems in Kashmiri, Mahjoor is also noted for his poetic compositions in Persian and Urdu. more…

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