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Book: The Golden Threshold

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  • Autumn Song
    Like a joy on the heart of a sorrow,
       The sunset hangs on a cloud;
    10 lines, 6 comments
  • The Coromandel Fishers
    Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to the morning light,
    The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child that
    13 lines, 5 comments
  • Palanquin Bearers
    Lightly, O lightly we bear her along,
     She sways like a flower in the wind of our song;
    13 lines, 6 comments
  • The Pardah Nashin
    HER life is a revolving dream
    Of languid and sequestered ease;
    18 lines
  • Ecstasy
    Cover mine eyes, O my Love!
    Mine eyes that are weary of bliss
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • To My Fairy Fancies
    NAY, no longer I may hold you,
    In my spirit's soft caresses,
    14 lines, 4 comments
  • Leili
    To tangled paths where shy gazelles are straying,
    And parrot-plumes outshine the dying day.
    0 lines, 1 comment
  • Suttee
    LAMP of my life, the lips of Death
    Hath blown thee out with their sudden breath;
    12 lines
  • In The Forest
    But soon we must rise, O my heart, we must wander again
    Into the war of the world and the strife of the throng;
    0 lines, 5 comments
  • Damayante To Nala In The Hour Of Exile
    SHALT thou be conquered of a human fate
    My liege, my lover, whose imperial head
    32 lines, 1 comment
  • Past And Future
    The new hath come and now the old retires:
    And so the past becomes a mountain-cell,
    13 lines
  • The Royal Tombs Of Golconda
    I MUSE among these silent fanes
    Whose spacious darkness guards your dust;
    29 lines, 2 comments
  • Life
    And thirst with passionate longing for the things
    That burn your brows with blood-red sufferings
    0 lines, 1 comment
  • Humayun To Zobeida (From the Urdu)
    You flaunt your beauty in the rose, your glory in the dawn,
    Your sweetness in the nightingale, your white- ness in the swan.
    10 lines
  • To The God Of Pain
    Unwilling priestess in thy cruel fane,
    Long hast thou held me, pitiless god of Pain,
    24 lines, 3 comments
  • The Poet's Love Song
    IN noon-tide hours, O Love, secure and strong,
    I need thee not; mad dreams are mine to bind
    12 lines
  • Indian Dancers
    Eyes  ravished with rapture, celestially panting, what passionate bosoms aflaming with fire
    Drink deep of the hush of the hyac
    15 lines, 3 comments
  • The Poet To Death
    TARRY a while, O Death, I cannot die
    While yet my sweet life burgeons with its spring;
    12 lines
  • My Dead Dream
    Go back to your grave, O my Dream, under forests of snow,
    Where a heart-riven child hid you once, seven eons ago
    12 lines
  • Street Cries
    WHEN dawn's first cymbals beat upon the sky,
    Rousing the world to labour's various cry,
    21 lines, 1 comment
  • The Indian Gypsy
    Time's river winds in foaming centuries
    Its changing, swift, irrevocable course
    15 lines, 1 comment
  • Cradle Song
    From groves of spice,
    O'er fields of rice,
    18 lines, 3 comments
  • To Youth
    I give thee back thy false, ephemeral vow;
    But, O beloved comrade, ere we part
    12 lines
  • Song Of A Dream
    ONCE in the dream of a night I stood
    Lone in the light of a magical wood,
    15 lines, 4 comments
  • Wandering Singers
    WHERE the voice of the wind calls our wandering feet,
    Through echoing forest and echoing street,
    12 lines
  • Alabaster
    Like this alabaster box whose art
    Is frail as a cassia-flower, is my heart,
    10 lines, 8 comments
  • Indian Weavers
    WEAVERS, weaving at break of day,
    Why do you weave a garment so gay? . . .
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • Ode To H.H. The Nizam Of Hyderabad
    Deign, Prince, my tribute to receive,
    This lyric offering to your name,
    44 lines
  • The Snake Charmer
    WHITHER dost thou hide from the magic of my flute-call?
    In what moonlight-tangled meshes of perfume,
    12 lines
  • The Song Of Princess Zeb-Un-Nissa In Praise Of Her Own Beauty
    WHEN from my cheek I lift my veil,
    The roses turn with envy pale,
    12 lines
  • Corn Grinders
    O little mouse, why dost thou cry
    While merry stars laugh in the sky?
    27 lines
  • The Queen's Rival
    QUEEN GULNAAR sat on her ivory bed,
    Around her countless treasures were spread;
    57 lines, 1 comment
  • Village Song
    HONEY, child, honey, child, whither are you going?
    Would you cast your jewels all to the breezes blowing?
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • To My Children
    GOLDEN sun of victory, born
    In my life's unclouded morn,
    36 lines
  • In Praise Of Henna
    A KOKILA called from a henna-spray:
    Lira! liree! Lira! liree!
    16 lines
  • Nightfall In The City Of Hyderabad
    SEE how the speckled sky burns like a pigeon's throat,
    Jewelled with embers of opal and peridote.
    26 lines, 1 comment
  • Harvest Hymn
    LORD of the lotus, lord of the harvest,
    Bright and munificent lord of the morn!
    35 lines
  • To India
    O YOUNG through all thy immemorial years!
    Rise, Mother, rise, regenerate from thy gloom,
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • Indian Love Song
    LIKE a serpent to the calling voice of flutes,
    Glides my heart into thy fingers, O my Love!
    14 lines
  • To A Buddha Seated On A Lotus
    LORD BUDDHA, on thy Lotus-throne,
    With praying eyes and hands elate,
    30 lines
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