Love in Hindu LiteratureMaruzen Company, Limited, 1916 - 89 pages |
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A. K. Coomaraswamy allegory annotator Arjuna art Thou beauty beloved Bengali Bengali Language bliss body breast Burns century B.C. champaka Chandragupta II Chitra Coomaraswamy criticism dalliance darling dear Deccan trap dhyana dignity of sex divine earth ecstasy eyes feels flower following note girl Goethe heart hero heroine Hindu Hindu art Hindu culture Hindusthan Honeyed human hyperbole Indian history interpretation Jōdō Kālidāsa Kāma Kānu Krishna lass literature and art live love in vacuum love's lover lyric Madana Madhava maiden Mathura mediaeval meditation moon moral mother-in-law motif mystery night noble and grand obviously mystical Padabali Paradise passion philosophy poet Rabindranath Tagore Rādhā Radha-Krishna literature regard religious reproach Rossetti secular sensuous sentiments sex-impulse sexual Shelley Shiva Songs of Vidyapati soul spiritual story sweet sweetheart Tagore Tagore's Arjuna Tagore's Chitra thee think and dream thought Tristan und Isolde truth Urvasie Vaishnava Vidyapati Whitman whole woman words Wordsworth Young India
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Page 32 - Are not two prayers a perfect strength ? And shall I feel afraid ? "When round his head the aureole clings, And he is clothed in white, I'll take his hand and go with him To the deep wells of light ; As unto a stream we will step down, And bathe there in God's sight.
Page 3 - The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors: — No — yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair Love's ripening breast To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest; Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever, — or else swoon to death.
Page 4 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Page 6 - Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the storm Grace that shall mould the maiden's form By silent sympathy. 'The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 3 - O, for a draught of vintage, that hath been Cool'da long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora and the country-green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sun-burnt mirth ! O, for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth, That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Page 32 - There will I ask of Christ the Lord Thus much for him and me: — Only to live as once on earth With Love, - only to be, As then awhile, for ever now Together, I and he.
Page 4 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 5 - A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel 13 light. XV.— I WANDERED LONELY. 1804. I WANDERED lonely as a cloud...