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2023-12-06THE SONG OF PRINCESS ZEB-UN-NISSA IN PRAISE OF HER OWN BEAUTY (From the Persian) When from my cheek I lift my veil, The roses turn with envy pale, And...
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2023-12-06INDIAN DANCERS Eyes ravished with rapture, celestially panting, what passionate bosoms aflaming withfire Drink deep of the hush of the hyacinth heaven...
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THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD(31)
2023-12-06MY DEAD DREAM Have you found me, at last, O my Dream? Seven aeons ago You died and I buried you deep under forests of snow. Why have you come hither? ...
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2023-12-06DAMAYANTE TO NALA IN THE HOUR OF EXILE (A fragment) Shalt thou be conquered of a human fate My liege, my lover, whose imperial head Hath never bent in...
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2023-12-06THE QUEEN'S RIVAL I QUEEN Gulnaar sat on her ivory bed, Around her countless treasures were spread; Her chamber walls were richly inlaid With agat...
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THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD(34)
2023-12-06THE POET TO DEATH Tarry a while, O Death, I cannot die While yet my sweet life burgeons with its spring; Fair is my youth, and rich the echoing boughs...
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THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD(35)
2023-12-06THE INDIAN GIPSY In tattered robes that hoard a glittering trace Of bygone colours, broidered to the knee, Behold her, daughter of a wandering race, T...
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A Faery Song
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2023-12-06TO MY CHILDREN Jaya Surya, aetat Golden sun of victory, born In my life's unclouded morn, In my lambent sky of love, May your growing glory prove ...
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2023-12-06THE PARDAH NASHIN Her life is a revolving dream Of languid and sequestered ease; Her girdles and her fillets gleam Like changing fires on sunset seas;...