Freedom from fear is the freedom I clai… Freedom from the burden of the ages, ben… Freedom from the shackles of slumber whe… Freedom from the anarchy of destiny whol… Freedom from the insult of dwelling in a…

The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time has not come true,

Leave this chanting and singing and tell… Whom dost thou worship in this lonely da… Open thine eyes and see thy God is not… He is there where the tiller is tilling… and where the pathmaker is breaking ston…

The workman and his wife from the west country are busy digging to make bricks for the kiln. Their little daughter goes to the landing-place by the river; there she has no end of scouri...

Pity, in place of love, That pettiest of gifts, Is but a sugar—coating over neglect. Any passerby can make a gift of it To a street beggar,

I shall gladly suffer the pride of cultu… if only in some happy future I am born a… forest. The herd—boy who grazes his cattle sitti… tree, and idly weaves gunja flowers into…

It was in May. The sultry noon seemed… When I heard from the riverside a voice… I shut my book and opened the window to… I saw a big buffalo with mud-stained hid… I smiled amused and felt a touch of swee…

On the day when the lotus bloomed, alas,… and I knew it not. My basket was empty… Only now and again a sadness fell upon m… dream and felt a sweet trace of a strang… That vague sweetness made my heart ache…

An unbelieving smile flits on your eyes when I come to you to take my leave. I have done it so often that you think I will soon return. To tell you the truth I have the same doubt in my...

We both live in the same village and tha… The yellow bird sings in their tree and… Her pair of pet lambs come to graze near… If they stray into our barley field I t… The name of our village is Khanjuna, an…

On the seashore of endless worlds childr… The infinite sky is motionless overhead and the restless water is boisterous. On the seashore of endless worlds the children meet with shouts and dances…

Do not keep to yourself the secret of yo… Say it to me, only to me, in secret. You who smile so gently, softly whisper,… The night is deep, the house is silent,… Speak to me through hesitating tears, th…

When the lamp went out by my bed I woke… I sat at my open window with a fresh wre… The young traveller came along the road… A pearl chain was on his neck, and the s… For very shame I could not say, “She is…