Arabic & Persian
Mirza Khan Ansari
Mirza Khan Ansari was probably a descendant of Pir Roshan, founder of the Roshanian sect among the Eastern Afghans. Raverty reports that he began writing poetry in A.H. 1040 (about A.D. 1630), and that his odes were later gathered into a Diwan under his name.
Some claimed that his real name was Fath Khan of the Yusufzi tribe, but Raverty argues from old manuscripts that Mirza Khan Ansari is the name he bore. His poems are Sufi and mystical in tone, and the selection includes several built on the letters of the Arabic alphabet.
Poems (17)
- I: O Thou, in heart ignorant concerning thine own…
- II: When, with the mind, I examined the shoulder-bone…
- VII: --All that may be contrary to nature change
- VIII: The loved-one is not concealed from thee
- IX: The anguish of love, alas! is incalculable
- X: How amazing is the sublimity of the mind…
- XI: If it be thy wish to pass through…
- XII: Thou art the vitality of my soul, O…
- XIII: Shouldst thou once become an inmate of the…
- XIV: He, who placeth reliance on the lying and…
- XV: How shall I define what thing I am
- XVI: The tresses of this impassioned loved-one, are all…
- XVII: What inquiry makest thou concerning the lover's condition…
- XVIII: Upon them, that journey on the road of…
- XIX: When that rose, out of nothingness, a form…
- XX: How long wilt thou wander, O covetous one!…
- XXI: I continually call to mind this sweet and…