Mirza Asadullah Khan (Ghalib)-27-12-1797(Agra) To 15-02-1869 (Delhi)
English Poetry Sublimation
Rays are feeble, candle is trembling,
Parrot is also trying to break the cage,
Numerous mourners are on the paper,
Scattered at all the corners---
Looking at me for the new hope,
I am not defunct,
Still I am not deft,
Unable to defy the angel,
Again I am not the sage.
My children,
I provided you all and individual identity,
Spread out in the time,
go to the flowers,
Tell them the message as bee,
Life is a river,
It has to be sublimated by the sea.
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By Rabindra Nath Banerjee