Romantic Urdu poetry captures love in all its tenderness and intensity. Below is a collection of romantic couplets, with Roman transliteration and English translation.

Romantic Couplets

Ik shehzaadi hai sard-mizaaj kahaani mein
Ik shehzaada hai jo dil se us par marta hai

In the story there is a cold-hearted princess — and a prince who loves her with all his heart.

Tujhe dekhne se milta hai sukoon
Saara masla to us sukoon ka hai

Seeing you brings me peace — and this very peace is the whole problem.

Koi nahin aayega meri zindagi mein tere siwa
Ek maut hi hai jis ka hum waada nahin karte

No one will ever enter my life but you — death alone is the thing I make no promises about.

Teri raabton mein waqfe, tere bhoolne ki aadat
Kahin door na reh jaao, yunhi door rehte rehte

The gaps in your keeping in touch, your habit of forgetting — take care you don't drift away for good, staying distant like this.

Kitni barkat hai tere ishq mein
Jab se hua hai baRhta ja raha hai

What abundance there is in loving you — ever since it began, it only keeps growing.

Kuchh cheezein sukoon deti hain
Aur tumhaara chehra hi isi mein pehl rakhta hai

Some things bring peace — and your face is first among them all.

Ye aarzoo hai ke main tujhe khud se ziyaada chaahoon
Main rahoon ya na rahoon meri wafa yaad rakhoge

My wish is to love you more than my own self — whether I remain or not, you will remember my devotion.

Maana ke jald-baaz bahut hoon main aye mere humsafar
Par tumhaare khwaab khoob tasalli se dekhta hoon

I admit I am often impatient, O my companion — yet the dreams I dream of you, I dream with perfect calm.

Aisa Dooba hua hoon teri yaadon ke samandar mein
Dil ka dhaRakna bhi ab tere qadmon ki sada lagti hai

I am so drowned in the ocean of your memories that even my heartbeat now sounds like your footsteps.

Pyaar se naam nahin lete ke sun na le koi
Dil hi dil mein hum tumhein bahut yaad karte hain

I don't say your name aloud, for fear someone might hear — but deep within my heart, I remember you so much.

Door reh kar bhi jo samaaya hai meri rooh mein
Paas waalon par woh shakhs kitna gehra asar rakhta hoga

One who, even from afar, has filled my soul — how deep an effect that person must have on those nearby.

Faasla itna ke us ko dekh bhi nahin sakta
Qurbatein aisi ke woh rag rag mein rehti hai meri

A distance so great I cannot even see her — and yet a closeness so complete that she lives in my every vein.

Ab main samjha tere rukhsaar pe til ka matlab
Daulat-e-husn pe darbaan biTha rakha hai

Now I understand the meaning of the mole upon your cheek — a guard set to watch over the treasure of your beauty.

Sukoon-e-qalb tum se hai, sukoon-e-jaan bhi tum ho
Taajjub hai ke seene mein jahaan dil tha wahaan bhi tum ho

You are the peace of my heart and the peace of my soul — and, astonishingly, where once my heart was in my chest, there too is you.

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