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