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-67_Nammalwar’s Hymn of the Golden Age.htm

Nammalwar’s Hymn of the Golden Age   1.  ‘Tis glory, glory, glory! For Life’s hard curse has expired; swept out are Pain and Hell, and…

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-68_Love-Mad.htm

  Love-Mad*   The poetic image used in the following verses is characteristically Indian. The mother of a love-stricken girl (symbolising the human soul yearning…

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-69_Refuge.htm

Refuge*   1.   Though thou shouldst not spare me the anguish of the world, yet I have no refuge but thy feet. 0 Lord…

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-70_To the Cuckoo.htm

To the Cuckoo*   0 Cuckoo that peckest at the blossomed flower of honey-dripping Champaka and, inebriate, pipest forth the melodious notes, be seated in…

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-71_I Dreamed a Dream.htm

I Dreamed a Dream*   I dreamed a dream, 0 friend.       The wedding was fixed for the morrow. And He, the Lion, Madhava, the…

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-72_Ye Others.htm

Ye Others*    Ye others cannot conceive of the love that I bear to Krishna. And your warnings to me are vain like the pleadings…

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-73_From Greek and Latin – Odyssey.htm

  IV  FROM GREEK AND LATIN Odyssey* BOOK ONE    Sing to me, Muse, of the man many-counselled who far through the world’s ways Wandering,…

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-74_On a Satyr and Seeping Love.htm

  FROM GREEK AND LATIN   On A Satyr and Sleeping Love*     Me whom the purple mead that Bromius owns And girdles rent…

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-75_A Rose of Women.htm

  A Rose of Women †   Now lilies blow upon the windy height, Now flowers the pansy kissed by tender rain, Narcissus builds his…

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-76_To Lesbia.htm

  To Lesbia‡   0 my Lesbia  let us live for loving, Suns can set and return to light the morrow, We when once has…

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