Religion
X: Unto the trysting-place my charmer very slowly cometh
Translated by H. G. Raverty (1867) · From Selections from the Poetry of the Afghans (1867)
Unto the trysting-place my charmer very slowly cometh;
And the verdant spring to the parterre very slowly cometh.
Now and then I perceive kindness beaming from her eyes:
Thou wouldst say that the languid ever very slowly cometh.
The dread of ill is a far greater slaughterer than ill itself:
The sanguinary one, to shed my blood very slowly cometh.
The partridge, for this reason, hath from laughing become purple,
That to make him her game, the graceful one very slowly cometh.
What! can separation, of his vigour, poor Farhad have deprived,
That the cries and wails from his mountain very slowly come?
Under the weight of her majesty, the strength of Gulgun was lost;
Hence that Scythian of graceful mien very slowly cometh.
Give not utterance, O Shaida, without reflection, to a word;
For every parrot, to speaking well, very slowly cometh.
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MLA
Shaida, Kazim Khan. “X: Unto the trysting-place my charmer very slowly cometh.” Translated by H. G. Raverty. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/kazim-khan-shaida/9/.
Chicago
Shaida, Kazim Khan. “X: Unto the trysting-place my charmer very slowly cometh.” Translated by H. G. Raverty. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/kazim-khan-shaida/9/.
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