#Indians #IndianWriters #NobelPrize #XIXCentury #XXCentury
Mother, the folk who live up in the clou… “We play from the time we wake till the… We play with the golden dawn, we play wi… I ask, “But how am I to get up to you?” They answer, “Come to the edge of the e…
Deliverance is not for me in renunciatio… I feel the embrace of freedom in a thous… Thou ever pourest for me the fresh draug… colours and fragrance, filling this eart… My world will light its hundred differen…
My fancies are fireflies, — Specks of living light twinkling in the dark. he voice of wayside pansies, that do not attract the careless glance,
Music is silenced, the dark descending s… Has stripped unending skies of all compa… Weariness grips your limbs and within th… Dumbly ring the bells of hugely gatherin… Still, O bird, O sightless bird,
The 'I’ that floats along the wave of t… From a distance I watch him. With the dust and the water, With the fruit and the flower, With the All he is rushing forward.
Traveller, must you go? The night is still and the darkness swoo… The lamps are bright in our balcony, the… Is the time for your parting come? Traveller, must you go?
Come as you are; do not loiter over your… If your braided hair has loosened, if th… Come as you are; do not loiter over your… Come, with quick steps over the grass. If the raddle come from your feet becaus…
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. They build their houses with s...
#FreeVerse
When I called you in your garden Mango blooms were rich in fragrance — Why did you remain so distant, Keep your doors so tightly fastened? Blossoms grew to ripe fruit—clusters —
Yes, I know, this is nothing but thy lo… O beloved of my heart——this golden light… these idle clouds sailing across the sky… this passing breeze leaving its coolness… The morning light has flooded my eyes——t…
You came to my door in the dawn and sang… You came in the noon and asked for water… You came in the evening with your flamin… You seemed to me like a terror and I sh… Now in the midnight I sit alone in my l…
None lives for ever, brother, and nothin… Our life is not the one old burden, our… One sole poet has not to sing one aged s… The flower fades and dies; but he who we… Brother, keep that in mind and rejoice.
In the beginning of time, there rose fro… dream two women. One is the dancer at th… desired of men, she who laughs and pluck… from their cold meditations and of fools… scatters them like seeds with careless h…
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…
`Prisoner, tell me, who was it that boun… `It was my master,' said the prisoner. `I thought I could outdo everybody in t… and I amassed in my own treasure—house t… When sleep overcame me I lay upon the b…