E-Books & Rare Manuscripts (کتب خانہ)
Read and explore digitized historical Diwans, Kulliyats, and Urdu classical literary collections.
Rooh Nama — The Journey of Soul (English Edition)
Kamal MalhiabadiRooh Nama — The Journey of Soul by Kamal Malhiabadi (Safha Global). A Sufi journey in three kalam and ten chapters: Jism, Rooh, Noor, Takabbur, Ishq, Fana, Baqa. The body is clay; the soul is Light. English edition — every sher in Urdu, Roman and English translation.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Omar KhayyamThe quatrains of Omar Khayyam, the Persian astronomer-poet, in Edward FitzGerald's famous English rendering — here in the fourth edition of 1879, the version FitzGerald himself settled. Wine and roses, the moving finger, and the brief span of life: the Rubaiyat became one of the most loved poem-sequences in the English language, carrying readers from Persian poetry into English verse by the oldest bridge between them.
The Sonnets of William Shakespeare
William ShakespeareAll 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets in a facsimile of the first edition of 1609, reproduced in 1905 under Sidney Lee's editorship — the poems exactly as they first reached print: to the Fair Youth, to the Dark Lady, and on time, beauty and love.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
William BlakeWilliam Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience — the two contrary states of the human soul — from the 1874 collected edition of his poems edited by W. M. Rossetti. The Lamb and The Tyger, The Chimney Sweeper, London: short lyrics that remade English poetry.
Leaves of Grass
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman's Leaves of Grass in its final authorised form — the "deathbed" text he completed shortly before his death in 1892, printed here in the 1900 edition. Song of Myself, the Civil War poems, and the great democratic song of America and the self, gathered as Whitman wished them to stand.
Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily DickinsonThe first edition of Emily Dickinson's poems (Boston, 1890), published four years after her death, when almost none of her work was known. In short, slant lines she wrote of death, faith, nature and eternity — and quietly changed the course of American poetry.