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Are you a mere picture, and not as true… this dust? They throb with the pulse of… immensely aloof in your stillness, paint… The day was when you walked with me, you… limbs singing of life. My world found it…
In desperate hope I go and search for h… My house is small and what once has gone… But infinite is thy mansion, my lord, an… I stand under the golden canopy of thine… I have come to the brink of eternity fro…
Love, my heart longs day and night for t… Sweep me away like a storm; take everyth… In that devastation, in the utter nakedn… Alas for my vain desire! Where is this…
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.
The boat of the boatman Madhu is moored… It is uselessly laden with jute, and has… for ever so long. If he would only lend me his boat, I sh… hundred oars, and hoist sails, five or s…
She is near to my heart as the meadow—fl… sweet to me as sleep is to tired limbs.… flowing in its fullness, like a river in… serene abandonment. My songs are one wit… of a stream, that sings with all its wav…
Would you put your wreath of fresh flowe… But you must know that the one wreath th… It is too late to ask my heart in return… There was a time when my life was like a… Now it is squandered far and wide.
I hold her hands and press her to my bre… I try to fill my arms with her lovelines… Ah, but, where is it? Who can strain t… I try to grasp the beauty, it eludes me,… Baffled and weary I come back.
O woman, you are not merely the handiwor… Poets are weaving for you a web with thr… The sea gives its pearls, the mines thei… The desire of men's hearts has shed its… You are one half woman and one half drea…
A wandering madman was seeking the touchstone, with matted locks tawny and dust-laden, and body worn to a shadow, his lips tight-pressed, like the shut-up doors of his heart, his burnin...
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 night is black and the forest has no… a million people thread it in a million… We have trysts to keep in the darkness,… or with whom– of that we are unaware. But we have this faith– that a lifetime’…
Sullen clouds are gathering fast over th… forest. O child, do not go out! The palm trees in a row by the lake are… against the dismal sky; the crows with t…
I remember a day in my childhood I floa… It was a wet day of July; I was alone a… I floated my paper boat in the ditch. Suddenly the storm clouds thickened, win… Rills of muddy water rushed and swelled…
I try to weave a wreath all the morning,… You sit there watching me in secret thro… Ask those eyes, darkly planning mischief… I try to sing a song, but in vain. A hidden smile trembles on your lips, as…