In noon—tide hours, O Love, secur… I need thee not; mad dreams are mi… The world to my desire, and hold t… A voiceless captive to my conqueri… I need thee not, I am content wit…
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
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…
SHALT thou be conquered of a hum… My liege, my lover, whose imperial… Hath never bent in sorrow of defea… Shalt thou be vanquished, whose im… Have shattered armies and stamped…
ONCE in the dream of a night I s… Lone in the light of a magical woo… Soul—deep in visions that poppy—li… And spirits of Truth were the bir… And spirits of Love were the star…
(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…
LAMP of my life, the lips of Dea… Hath blown thee out with their sud… Naught shall revive thy vanished s… Love, must I dwell in the living… Tree of my life, Death’s cruel fo…
SEE how the speckled sky burns li… Jewelled with embers of opal and p… See the white river that flashes a… Curved like a tusk from the mouth… Hark, from the minaret, how the mu…
Men say the world is full of fear… And all life’s ripening harvest—fi… The restless sickle of relentless… But I, sweet Soul, rejoice that… When from the climbing terraces of…
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…
HER life is a revolving dream Of languid and sequestered ease; Her girdles and her fillets gleam Like changing fires on sunset seas… Her raiment is like morning mist,
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…
I MUSE among these silent fanes Whose spacious darkness guards you… Around me sleep the hoary plains That hold your ancient wars in tru… I pause, my dreaming spirit hears,
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…
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…