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-76_On Quantitative Metre.htm

IV   ON QUANTITATIVE METRE An Essay On Quantitative Metre THE REASON OF THE PAST FAILURES               A definitive verdict seems to have been…

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-68_Love and Death.htm

Love and Death     In woodlands of the bright and early world, When love was to himself yet new and warm And stainless, played…

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-14_Saraswati with the Lotus.htm

Saraswati  with  the  Lotus     BANKIM CHANDRA CHATTERJI.   OBIIT 1894   Thy tears fall fast, O mother, on its bloom. O white-armed mother, like…

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-10_The Lover’s Complaint.htm

The Lover’s Complaint     O plaintive, murmuring reed, begin thy strain;           Unloose that heavenly tongue,            Interpreter divine of pain; Utter thy voice,…

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-15_Madhusudan Dutt.htm

Madhusudan Dutt      Poet, who first with skill inspired did teach Greatness to our divine Bengali speech ,— Divine, but rather with delightful moan…

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-06_O Coil , Coil.htm

  O Coil, Coil   O coil, honied envoy of the spring, Cease thy too happy voice, grief’s record, cease: For I recall that day…

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-46_Bride of the Fire.htm

Bride of the Fire       Bride of the Fire, clasp me now close, – Bride of the Fire! I have shed the bloom…

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-08_Lines on Ireland.htm

Lines on Ireland 1896   After six hundred years did Fate intend Her perfect perseverance thus should end? So many years she strove, so many…

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-61_”I”.htm

“I”   This strutting “I” of human self and pride          Is a puppet built by Nature for her use, And dances as her strong…

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-07_Hic Jecet.htm

Hic Jacet   GLASNEVIN  CEMETERY   Patriots, behold your guerdon. This man found Erin, his mother, bleeding, chastised, bound, Naked to imputation, poor, denied, While…

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