(27 December 1797 – 15 February 1869 / Agra / British India)

poet Mirza Ghalib
#37 on top 500 poets

Poems of Mirza Ghalib

1. A Thousand Desires 4/1/2010
2. About My Poems 4/1/2010
3. Come that my soul has no repose 4/1/2010
4. Ghazal 4/1/2010
5. Gilah Hai Shauq Ko 4/1/2010
6. He was, when it was aught 1/1/2004
7. Heart it is, Not a Brick or Stone 1/1/2004
8. I have seen almost all the possible Troubles in my life 4/1/2010
9. I Will Not Cry 4/1/2010
10. In Her Every Indication 4/1/2010
11. Innocent heart 4/1/2010
12. It is not Love it is Madness 1/1/2004
13. Kiss Me 4/1/2010
14. Let the ascetics sing of the garden of Paradise -- 4/1/2010
15. Naqsh Faryadi 4/1/2010
16. No Hope 4/1/2010
17. No Hope Comes My Way 4/1/2010
18. Pain did not become grateful to medicine 4/1/2010
19. Rahm Kar Zaalim 4/1/2010
20. The dropp dies in the river 4/1/2010

What Cannot Be Said

There's one who took my heart away.
But does she own it? I can't say.

See her as unjust though I may,
Is she a tyrant? I can't say.

She strides a bloodless battlefield
Where there's no battle-axe to wield.

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