Who will not be acquainted with this name? Ghalib considered to be the greatest Urdu poet of 19th century was born in 1792 in Agra but spent most of his life in Delhi. He wrote poetry in Persian and Urdu and is considered as the most popular poet of India whose poems have been translated not only into almost all the Indian languages but also in several other languages of the world. In one of his verses Ghalib wrote.
Ghalib’s ancestors were recipients of many financial rewards from the British government in India because of their loyalty towards them. But Ghalib himself was against and that added to his financial problems. In 1850 he was invited into Darbar of the Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar and was rewarded with several positions and a salary of fifty rupees a month. But in the year 1857 when the emperor was dethroned Ghalib was declared as anti government which deteriorated his financial position and health. This agony is clearly visible in many of his poems. He did in 1869 in Delhi.
Creation is Reflection | 10-11 |
Full Many a Fine | 12-13 |
Full Many a Fine | 12-13 |
Heart is not insensate | 14-15 |
Why Groan and Grumble | 16-17 |
To Meet my beloved | 18-19 |
Their every Gesture | 20-21 |
Extravagant Description | 22-23 |
Tis not my love | 24-25 |
Free Ranging | 26-27 |
Cult of Fidelity | 28-29 |
We were enhanced | 30-31 |
How to Fend | 32-33 |
Many a thousand wish | 34-35 |
Zest for sight | 36-37 |
O wayward heart | 38-39 |
Let my Beloved | 40-41 |
When I Wish | 42-43 |
Beauty of full Waxing | 44-45 |
Your Glance like | 46-47 |
Again my tearful | 48-49 |
Let Son | 50-51 |
No Healing for Illness | 52-53 |
A life time a wish | 54-55 |
Come Go Ease | 56-57 |
How Friends will | 58-59 |
By Merging with | 60-61 |
Just as is difficult | 62-63 |
Come as my mind | 64-65 |
Nonchalance of Beloved | 66-67 |
Restlessness Again | 68-69 |
So Good for Good People | 70-71 |
Our Downfall Resulted | 72-73 |
I Have Bivouaced | 74-75 |
You were delayed | 76-77 |
Beloved Guassed | 78-79 |
If Silence | 80-81 |
There is not a Ray | 82-83 |
If Some life Span | 84-85 |
Tis Long Since | 86-87 |
I have lost Sustainability | 88-89 |
If by my life’s sacrifice | 90-91 |
Separated from beloved | 92-93 |
Wherever you set your | 94-95 |
Spring Again is here | 96-97 |
Rivals are cavorting | 98-99 |
Love Does not Despair | 100-101 |
We liken Breeze | 102-103 |
Beloved stopped tormenting | 104-105 |
If at all at tims | 106-107 |
Seeing beloved face | 108-109 |
I am a Drop of Dew | 110-111 |
Upto you with the rival | 112-113 |
No Longer do we | 114-115 |
My Heart is burnt | 116-117 |
Divine Light | 118-119 |
When Nothing | 120-121 |
Why not present a mirror | 122-123 |
How you wish | 124-125 |
Suffering spasms | 126-127 |
The Weak in the field | 128-129 |
Beloved’s fiery temper | 130-131 |
On the Mention | 132-133 |
Finders Keepers | 134-135 |
There is none | 136-137 |
The world is just | 138-139 |
Would that I were | 140-141 |
For any thing I say | 142-143 |
Who will not be acquainted with this name? Ghalib considered to be the greatest Urdu poet of 19th century was born in 1792 in Agra but spent most of his life in Delhi. He wrote poetry in Persian and Urdu and is considered as the most popular poet of India whose poems have been translated not only into almost all the Indian languages but also in several other languages of the world. In one of his verses Ghalib wrote.
Ghalib’s ancestors were recipients of many financial rewards from the British government in India because of their loyalty towards them. But Ghalib himself was against and that added to his financial problems. In 1850 he was invited into Darbar of the Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar and was rewarded with several positions and a salary of fifty rupees a month. But in the year 1857 when the emperor was dethroned Ghalib was declared as anti government which deteriorated his financial position and health. This agony is clearly visible in many of his poems. He did in 1869 in Delhi.
Creation is Reflection | 10-11 |
Full Many a Fine | 12-13 |
Full Many a Fine | 12-13 |
Heart is not insensate | 14-15 |
Why Groan and Grumble | 16-17 |
To Meet my beloved | 18-19 |
Their every Gesture | 20-21 |
Extravagant Description | 22-23 |
Tis not my love | 24-25 |
Free Ranging | 26-27 |
Cult of Fidelity | 28-29 |
We were enhanced | 30-31 |
How to Fend | 32-33 |
Many a thousand wish | 34-35 |
Zest for sight | 36-37 |
O wayward heart | 38-39 |
Let my Beloved | 40-41 |
When I Wish | 42-43 |
Beauty of full Waxing | 44-45 |
Your Glance like | 46-47 |
Again my tearful | 48-49 |
Let Son | 50-51 |
No Healing for Illness | 52-53 |
A life time a wish | 54-55 |
Come Go Ease | 56-57 |
How Friends will | 58-59 |
By Merging with | 60-61 |
Just as is difficult | 62-63 |
Come as my mind | 64-65 |
Nonchalance of Beloved | 66-67 |
Restlessness Again | 68-69 |
So Good for Good People | 70-71 |
Our Downfall Resulted | 72-73 |
I Have Bivouaced | 74-75 |
You were delayed | 76-77 |
Beloved Guassed | 78-79 |
If Silence | 80-81 |
There is not a Ray | 82-83 |
If Some life Span | 84-85 |
Tis Long Since | 86-87 |
I have lost Sustainability | 88-89 |
If by my life’s sacrifice | 90-91 |
Separated from beloved | 92-93 |
Wherever you set your | 94-95 |
Spring Again is here | 96-97 |
Rivals are cavorting | 98-99 |
Love Does not Despair | 100-101 |
We liken Breeze | 102-103 |
Beloved stopped tormenting | 104-105 |
If at all at tims | 106-107 |
Seeing beloved face | 108-109 |
I am a Drop of Dew | 110-111 |
Upto you with the rival | 112-113 |
No Longer do we | 114-115 |
My Heart is burnt | 116-117 |
Divine Light | 118-119 |
When Nothing | 120-121 |
Why not present a mirror | 122-123 |
How you wish | 124-125 |
Suffering spasms | 126-127 |
The Weak in the field | 128-129 |
Beloved’s fiery temper | 130-131 |
On the Mention | 132-133 |
Finders Keepers | 134-135 |
There is none | 136-137 |
The world is just | 138-139 |
Would that I were | 140-141 |
For any thing I say | 142-143 |