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Uloupie CANTO I     Under the high and gloomy eastern hills The portals of Patala are and there The Bhogavathie with her sinuous waves…

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-75_The Tale of Nala.htm

The Tale of Nala     Nala Nishadha’s king, paced by a stream Which ran escaping from solitudes To flow through gardens in a pleasant…

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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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-79_Ilion.htm

V   ILION An Epic in Quantitative Hexameters BOOK ONE   The Book of the Herald     Dawn in her journey eternal compelling the…

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-88_Ahana.htm

AHANA   A poem in rhymed quantitative hexameters     Ahana (Ahana, the Dawn of God, descends on the world where amid the strife and…

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-89_The Descent of Ahana.htm

  The Descent of Ahana* AHANA   Strayed from the roads of Time, far-couched on the void I have slumbered; Centuries passed me unnoticed, millenniums…

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-90_An Answer to a Criticism.htm

Answer to a Criticism *   Milford accepts the rule that two consonants after a short vowel make the short vowel long, even if they…

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-91_Ocean Oneness.htm

VI POEMS IN NEW METRES Ocean Oneness*     Silence is round me, wideness ineffable; White birds on the ocean diving and wandering;     A…

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-92_Notes.htm

NOTES THE BIRD OF FIRE AND TRANCE   These two poems are in the nature of metrical experiments. The first is a kind of compromise…

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-93_Thought the Paraclete.htm

Thought the Paraclete     As some bright archangel in vision flies Plunged in dream-caught spirit immensities, Past the long green crests of the seas…

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