Arabic & Persian
Kazim Khan Shaida
Kazim Khan, surnamed Shaida, was a great-grandson of Khushhal Khan, born in the five years after A.H. 1135 (A.D. 1722). Quarrelling with his elder brother Asad-ullah, who held the chieftainship, he left home as a young man, wandered in Kashmir, and settled at Rampur.
A disappointment in love led him to remain unmarried. His poems were gathered alphabetically into a volume in A.D. 1767, and Raverty describes the surviving copy as the only one; they are largely love ghazals in the Persian manner.
Poems (22)
- I: What pleasure shall the dead in heart take…
- II: Obtain for thy requirements the dun steed of…
- III: Thou hast cast loose the dark tresses about…
- IV: Art thou come again in search of roses…
- V: Everywhere the lords of love have become disgraced…
- VI: Again thou bringest thy dishevelled tresses thy face…
- VII: In such manner, am I happy from the…
- VIII: Since, like the reed-pen, I have my head…
- IX: Since from their complainings, its bells have not…
- X: Unto the trysting-place my charmer very slowly cometh
- XI: Although every drop of dew should be the…
- XII: The habitations of this world behold, and begone!
- XIII: Without a meeting I shall not recover: come…
- XIV: No sooner did spring acquainted become, with garden…
- XV: Thou hast again unclosed those lips of thine…
- XVI: Since I have turned my back home and…
- XVII: Thou art welcome again thou fresh festival of…
- XVIII: What peace, in this world, doth the heart…
- XIX: I possess none of the chattels of tranquillity…
- XX: When thy beauty, like the sun's, bursteth forth
- XXI: In the rolling of thine eyes the universe…
- XXII: Since, like the sun, thou art the possessor…