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Bulleh Shah :

Shah, Bulleh

Bulleh Shah : a selection / rendered into English verse by Taufiq Rafat ; introduction by Khaled Ahmed. - Karachi, Pakistan : Oxford University Press, 2015 - xx, 231 p. ; 22 cm. - Oxford Pakistan paperbacks .

Poems. "First published in 1982 by Vanguard Publications Ltd. Lahore"--Title page verso.

1. A for Allah
2. The difference
3. Wayfarer, Arise
4. I swallowed the hook
5. The trap
6. Where is your home?
7. A safe place
8. Embrace me, love
9. Left alone
10. Spell
11. Heritage
12. One is enough
13. A topsy-turvy world
14. Not for a moment
15. Does anyone know?
16. Briefing Bulleh
17. Wanderer, ho
18. Accursed
19. The follower
20. I’m in a trap
21. Whatever you touch
22. Be silent now
23. Acquaintance
24. Who’s keeping the gossips busy?
25. The world’s a fun-fair
26. With love my heart overflows
27. The broken spinning-wheel
28. The transformation
29. The lover’s way
30. Rituals
31. All cotton-boils are white
32. The buyer
33. Lover comes on bright new wings
34. Enough of learning, friend
35. Stop the spiining-wheel, girl
36. Dogs are better than you
37. Names
38. Come see me once in a while
39. Lass, look to your spinning
40. This mad lover
41. Penitence
42. Who choose cold-hearted dears
43. My love has come to call
44. Up with your veil, love
45. Clay
46. The benighted
47. I’m harbouring a thief
48. Gather round me, friends
49. Truth will out
50. God has come down as man
51. I’, waiting
52. I’m just a sweepress
53. The load
54. From the first moment
55. Strange are the ways of my love
56. Neither Hindu Nor Muslim
57. Obfuscation
58. The semi-literate
59. The story of creation
60. Love’s arrival
61. Honesty
62. I’m not talking of here
63. Desertion
64. Relatively speaking
65. Because of you
66. Plea for protection
67. Saturday
68. Thursday
69. Spring
70. Rain
71. Knots





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