Book: Lover's Gifts

• Lover's Gifts V: I Would Ask For Still More

  I would ask for still more, if I had the sky with all its stars,
  and the world with its endless riches; but I would be content with

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• Lover's Gifts XLII: Are You A Mere Picture

  Are you a mere picture, and not as true as those stars, true as
  this dust? They throb with the pulse of things, but you are

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• Lover's Gifts XLIII: Dying, You Have Left Behind

  Dying, you have left behind you the great sadness of the Eternal
  in my life. You have painted my thought's horizon with the sunset

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• Lover's Gifts LVIII: Things Throng And Laugh

  Things throng and laugh loud in the sky; the sands and dust dance
  and whirl like children. Man's mind is aroused by their shouts; hi

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• Lover's Gifts XIII: Last Night In The Garden

  Last night in the garden I offered you my youth's foaming wine. You
  lifted the cup to your lips, you shut your eyes and smiled while

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• Lover's Gifts XVIII: Your Days

  Your days will be full of cares, if you must give me your heart.
  My house by the cross-roads has its doors open and my mind is

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• Lover's Gifts XXII: I Shall Gladly Suffer

  I shall gladly suffer the pride of culture to die out in my house,
  if only in some happy future I am born a herd-boy in the Brinda

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• Lover's Gifts XL: A Message Came

  A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, " I wait for
  you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears

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• Lover's Gifts XIX: It Is Written In The Book

  It is written in the book that Man, when fifty, must leave the
  noisy world, to go to the forest seclusion. But the poet proclaims

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• Lover's Gifts LVI: The Evening Was Lonely

  The evening was lonely for me, and I was reading a book till my
  heart became dry, and it seemed to me that beauty was a thing

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• Lover's Gifts IV: She Is Near To My Heart

  She is near to my heart as the meadow-flower to the earth; she is
  sweet to me as sleep is to tired limbs. My love for her is my life

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• Lover's Gifts XXVIII: I Dreamt

  I dreamt that she sat by my head, tenderly ruffling my hair with
  her fingers, playing the melody of her touch. I looked at her face

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• Lover's Gifts LII: Tired Of Waiting

  Tired of waiting, you burst your bonds, impatient flowers, before
  the winter had gone. Glimpses of the unseen comer reached your

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• Lover's Gifts LXX: Take Back Your Coins

  Take back your coins, King's Councillor. I am of those women you
  sent to the forest shrine to decoy the young ascetic who had never

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• Lover's Gifts XVI: She Dwelt Here By The Pool

  She dwelt here by the pool with its landing-stairs in ruins. Many
  an evening she had watched the moon made dizzy by the shaking of

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• Lover's Gifts XLVIII: I Travelled The Old Road

  I travelled the old road every day, I took my fruits to the market,
  my cattle to the meadows, I ferried my boat across the stream an

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• Lover's Gifts LIV: In The Beginning Of Time

  In the beginning of time, there rose from the churning of God's
  dream two women. One is the dancer at the court of paradise, the

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• Lover's Gifts XLIV: Where Is Heaven

  Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is
  beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by the rhythm of day

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• Lover's Gifts II: Come To My Garden Walk

  Come to my garden walk, my love. Pass by the fervid flowers that
  press themselves on your sight. Pass them by, stopping at some

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• Lover's Gifts XXXIX: There Is A Looker-On

  There is a looker-on who sits behind my eyes. It seems he has seen
  things in ages and worlds beyond memory's shore, and those

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• Lover's Gifts VIII: There Is Room For You

  There is room for you. You are alone with your few sheaves of rice.
  My boat is crowded, it is heavily laden, but how can I turn you

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• Lover's Gifts XLVII: The Road Is

  The road is my wedded companion. She speaks to me under my feet all
  day, she sings to my dreams all night.

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