Translation: 1) My heart told me that you are my destroyer my soul is your hostage/ransom whether you know it or not 2) I have not honored the right of your love if I do not die in it out of sorrow, and someone like me is one who honors (his promises) 3) What do…
Majnun (Niẓāmī) and John Donne
Niẓami Translation: And who am I — so far from you, yet near? A singing beggar! Layla, do you hear? Freed from life’s drudgery, my loneliness , Sorrow and grief for me spell happiness. And thirsty in the painstream of delight, I drown. Child of the sun, I starve at night. Though parted our two…