(13 February 1911 - 20 November 1984 / Sialkot / British India)

poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz
#157 on top 500 poets

Poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz

1. A Prison Evening 8/3/2006
2. Before You Came 8/4/2006
3. Do not ask, my love..... 8/3/2006
4. Ghazal 8/4/2006
5. Highway 8/4/2006
6. It Is Spring Again 8/3/2006
7. Last Night...... 8/3/2006
8. Loneliness 8/4/2006
9. My Heart, My Traveler 8/4/2006
10. My Interview 8/4/2006
11. Solitude 8/2/2006
12. Some Lover To Some Beloved! 8/4/2006
13. Speak 8/1/2006
14. Stanza 8/4/2006
15. The Incarceration Of Loneliness 8/4/2006
16. Tonight 8/4/2006
17. Wasteland of Solitude 8/2/2006
18. We Shall See 8/4/2006
19. We Who Were Executed 8/2/2006
20. When Autumn Came 8/4/2006

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,
Grief for me was you; the world’s grief was far.
Spring was ever renewed in your face:
Beyond your eyes, what could the world hold?
Had I won you, Fate’s head would hang, defeated.
Yet all this was not so, I merely wished it so.
The world knows sorrows other than those of love,
Pleasures beyond those of romance:

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