LIKE this alabaster box whose ar… Is frail as a cassia—flower, is my… Carven with delicate dreams and wr… With many a subtle and exquisite t… Therein I treasure the spice and…
HERE, O my heart, let us burn th… Here in this wood let us fashion a… Of fallen white petals and leaves… Here let us burn them in noon’s fl… We are weary, my heart, we are wea…
Tell me no more of thy love, papee… Wouldst thou recall to my heart, p… Dreams of delight that are gone, When swift to my side came the fee… With stars of the dusk and the daw…
O little mouse, why dost thou cry While merry stars laugh in the sky… Alas! alas! my lord is dead! Ah, who will ease my bitter pain? He went to seek a millet—grain
Like a joy on the heart of a sorro… The sunset hangs on a cloud; A golden storm of glittering sheav… Of fair and frail and fluttering l… The wild wind blows in a cloud.
The serpents are asleep among the… The fireflies light the soundless… To tangled paths where shy gazelle… And parrot—plumes outshine the dyi… O soft! the lotus—buds upon the st…
You flaunt your beauty in the rose… Your sweetness in the nightingale,… You haunt my waking like a dream,… Pervade me like a musky scent, pos… Yet, when I crave of you, my swee…
A KOKILA called from a henna—sp… Lira! liree! Lira! liree! Hasten, maidens, hasten away To gather the leaves of the henna—… Send your pitchers afloat on the t…
(Parvati at her lattice) O Love! were you a basil—wreath t… among my tresses, A jewelled clasp of shining gold t… O Love! were you the keora’s soul…
In childhood’s pride I said to Th… 'O Thou, who mad’st me of Thy bre… Speak, Master, and reveal to me Thine inmost laws of life and deat… 'Give me to drink each joy and pai…
O YOUTH, sweet comrade Youth, w… Long have we dwelt together, thou… Together drunk of many an alien da… And plucked the fruit of many an a… Ah, fickle friend, must I, who ye…
WHEN from my cheek I lift my vei… The roses turn with envy pale, And from their pierced hearts, ric… Send forth their fragrance like a… Or if perchance one perfumed tress
Nay, do not grieve tho’ life be fu… Dawn will not veil her spleandor f… Nor spring deny their bright, appo… To lotus blossom and ashoka leaf. Nay, do not pine, tho’ life be dar…
Lightly, O lightly we bear her al… She sways like a flower in the win… She skims like a bird on the foam… She floats like a laugh from the l… Gaily, O gaily we glide and we si…
QUEEN GULNAAR sat on her ivo… Around her countless treasures wer… Her chamber walls were richly inla… With agate, porphory, onyx and jad… The tissues that veiled her delica…