Bada shor sunte thae pehlu mein dil ka

بڑا شور سنتے تھے پہلو میں دل کا
جو چیرا تو اک قطرۂ خوں نہ نکلا
حیدر علی آتش –

Bada shor sunte thae pehlu mein dil ka
jo cheera to ek qatra-e-khooN na nikla
– Haidar Ali Atish

बड़ा शोर सुनते थे पहलू में दिल का
जो चीरा तो इक कतरा-ऐ-खूँ न निकला
– हैदर अली आतिश

Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish (1778–1848) (Urdu: خواجہ حیدر علی آتش ) of Lucknow was an Urdu poet. Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish Lakhnawi is one of the giants of Urdu Literature. Aatish and Imam Baksh Nasikh were contemporary poets whose rivalry is well-known. Both had hundreds of disciples.

The era of Aatish-Nasikh was a golden era for Urdu poetry in Lucknow. Aatish is mostly known for his Ghazals and his amazing and different style of poetry.

Aatish was born in 1778. His family is believed to have migrated from Delhi to Lucknow. He lived an independent life without any employment or state patronage. Retaining an independent approach and concern for the dignity of man and interest in the expression of subjective experience in poetry, he, along with Imam Baksh Nasikh, emphasized the form and diction, correctness of idiom, and strict observance of the rules of prosody, demarcated the main feature of the poetic identity of his period. He did not adopt self-pity nor melancholy as the keynote of his poetry, nor did he opt for sensuousness as its cornerstone. His ghazals ring true to his challenging tone, which makes him the most prominent ghazal writer of protest poetry in the feudal age.

It is also said that Aatish belonged to Faizabad, his father had died early during his childhood, but his deep instinctive taste of poetry gave Aatish easy access to the court of Nawab Mohammed Taqi Khan Taraqqi who took him to Lucknow. In Lucknow, he became a disciple of Mushafi, an important poet of the Lucknow school. Soon after the death of Nasikh, Aatish stopped writing poetry. Some critics rank him after Mir and Ghalib. Source: Wikipedia

A great commotion I heard from my heart on the side
but when pierced, not even a drop of blood flowed outside