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-55_Andal – I dreamed a Dream.htm

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

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-56_Andal – 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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-57_Namalwar – The Supreme Vaishnava Saint and Poet.htm

Nammalwar   Nammalwar   The Supreme Vaishnava Saint and Poet   MARAN, renowned as Nammalwar (“Our Saint”) among the Vaishnavas and the greatest of their…

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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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-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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-60_Kulasekhar Alwer – Refuge.htm

Kulasekhara Alwar   Refuge   (Translated from the Tamil verses of Kulasekhara Alwar, the Chera king and saint)   Though thou shouldst not spare me…

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-61_Thiruvalluvar – Opening of the Kural.htm

    Tiruvalluvar   Opening of the Kural   1   1. Alpha of all letters the first, Of the worlds the original Godhead the…

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-62_Greek – Two Epigrams.htm

    Part Four   Translations from Greek   Two Epigrams   On a Satyr and Sleeping Love   Me whom the purple mead that…

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-63_Opening of the Illiad.htm

  Opening of the Iliad   Sing to me, Muse, of the wrath of Achilles Pelidean, Murderous, bringing a million woes on the men of…

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-64_Opening of the Odyssey.htm

  Opening of the Odyssey   Sing to me, Muse, of the man many-counselled who far through the world’s ways Wandering was tossed after Troya…

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