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-54_Andal – To the Cuckoo.htm

To the Cuckoo   O Cuckoo that peckest at the blossomed flower of honey dripping champaka and, inebriate, pipest forth the melodious notes, be seated…

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-59_Namalwar – Love Mad.htm

  Love-Mad   The Realisation of God in all things by the Vision of Divine Love   The poetic image used in the following verses…

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-37_Appendix – A Later Version of Chapters I and II.htm

APPENDIX   A Later Version of Chapters I and II   CHAPTER I     It was the summer of the Bengali year 1176. The…

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-46_Farewell Flute.htm

  Farewell Flute   A flute of farewell calls and calls, Farewell to earthly things: But when shall I the message learn That high-voiced music…

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-20_The Cloud Messenger.htm

  The Cloud Messenger   FRAGMENTS FROM A LOST TRANSLATION   the hills of mist Golden, the dwelling place of Faery kings, And mansions by…

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-42_Mahalakshmi.htm

  Mahalakshmi   In lotus-groves Thy spirit roves: where shall I find a seat for Thee? To Thy feet’s tread — feet dawn-rose red —…

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-15_Stanzaic Rendering of the Opening of Canto 1.htm

  The Birth of the War-God   EDITORS’ NOTE   In the first and third versions of this translation, Sri Aurobindo left some lines or…

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-58_Namalwar – Hymns of the Golden Age.html

Nammalwar’s Hymn of the Golden Age   ‘Tis glory, glory, glory! For Life’s hard curse has expired; swept out are Pain and Hell, and Death…

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-44_Laxmi.htm

  Lakshmi   At the mobile passion of thy tread the cold snows faint and fail, Hued by thy magic touches shimmering glow the horizons…

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-67_Catullus to Lesbia.html

  Catullus to Lesbia   O my Lesbia, let us live for loving. Suns can set and return to light the morrow, We, when once…

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