Love
I grant you will not utterly forget
Translated by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook (1919) · From Hindustani Lyrics (1919)
I grant you will not utterly forget,
I hold you not unheeding and unjust,
But ere you hear my prayer
I shall be dead and turned to senseless dust.
How little can one eager sigh attain
To touch thine icy heart to tenderness!
Who can live long enough
To win the beauty of thy curling tress?
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MLA
Ghalib, Mirza. “I grant you will not utterly forget.” Translated by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ghalib/1/.
Chicago
Ghalib, Mirza. “I grant you will not utterly forget.” Translated by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ghalib/1/.
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