The dawn that searched for that spring has already gone fast.❞
तुम आए हो, न शब-ए-इंतज़ार गुज़री है, — Faiz Ahmed Faiz | Dard Shayari
The dawn that searched for that spring has already gone fast.❞
About Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Faiz Ahmed Faiz was a Pakistani poet and one of the most celebrated poets of the Urdu language. A leading member of the Progressive Writers' Movement, he blended romantic poetry with political activism. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and received the Lenin Peace Prize.
Born: Sialkot, Punjab · Era: 1911–1984 · Specialty: Progressive Poetry, Ghazal
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About Dard Shayari
Sad shayari captures what's hard to say out loud. Ghalib's restlessness, Faiz's longing, Jaun Elia's ache — this collection holds some of the finest verses on sorrow and loneliness. Reach for these when words feel heavy, when you want to sit with a feeling rather than fix it, or to let a friend know their pain is understood.
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I had believed that you were all there was to make life shine through.❞
That day which has been promised, written on the tablet of eternity.❞
Something departs after a night of sorrow through.
Deserted is the tavern, the jars and cups all sad,
Since you left, even the days of spring have been made mad.❞
I had believed that you were all there was to make life shine through.
From your radiance I had also imagined this dream,
That all the sorrows of ages would be buried in your scheme.❞
The heart finds peace amid the fray.
We know not why this feeling comes to stay,
But when it does, it does — what more to say?❞
Speak, your tongue is still your own,
Your upright body is yours,
Speak, for your life is still your own.
Look at the blacksmith's forge aflame,
Sharp are the flames, red glows the iron,
The mouths of locks begin to open,
Every chain spreads wide its skirt.❞
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many of my wishes did come true, yet still they weren't enough.❞
I too have pain, but where can I go❞
forget me
but I read that same letter every day❞
I had once believed that with you, life itself would shine.❞
The feelings of the heart do not come to the tongue❞
I see your face there❞
Smiling on the outside, I am dying within❞
In the morning I found their image in the ashes❞