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Poems about Eastern
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This infamy, O my Prince,
is delicious!
How does a part of the world leave the world?
How does wetness leave water?
I have found, yes, I have found the wealth of the Divine Name's gem.
My true guru gave me a priceless thing. With his grace, I accepted it.
To what shore would you cross, O my heart? there is no traveller before you, there is no road:
Where is the movement, where is the rest, on that shore?
Time's knife slides from the sheath,
as fish from where it swims.
Every night Thou freest our spirits from the body
And its snare, making them pure as rased tablets.
O mother mine, I did not eat the butter
come dawn, with the herds,
Out of your love the fire of youth will rise.
In the chest, visions of the soul will rise.
In the waters of purity, I melted like salt
Neither blasphemy, nor faith, nor conviction, nor
Hearken to the reed-flute, how it complains,
Lamenting its banishment from its home:
Where the palaces are worthy of comparison to you in these various aspects:
you possess lightning, they have lovely women; you have a rainbow, they are
O MY heart! the Supreme Spirit, the great Master, is near you: wake, oh wake!
Run to the feet of your Beloved: for
There is no end to the deeds of Krishna:
true to his promise, he tended the cows in Gokula;
Drink the nectar of the Divine Name, O human! Drink the nectar of the Divine Name!
Leave the bad company, always sit among righteous company. Hearken to the me
Mine is the lifter of mountains, the
cowherd, and none other.
The slender young woman who is there would be the premier creation by the
Creator in the sphere of women, with fine teeth, lips like a ripe bimba fruit, a
The saffron of virtue and contentment
Is dissolved in the water-gun of love and affection.
As regards feeling pain, like a hand cut in battle,
consider the body a robe you wear.
A band of Arab brigands having taken up their position on the top of
a mountain and closed the passage of caravans, the inhabitants of
green in the field
was pounded into
Mine Is Gopal
Mine is Gopal, the Mountain-Holder; there is no one else.
A padshah was in the same boat with a Persian slave who had never
before been at sea and experienced the inconvenience of a vessel. He
by Sa di
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"Delightful are trees and fields with the outgrowth of new tender-leaves and crops, Lodhra trees are with their blossomy flowers, crops of rice are completely r
One of the kings of Khorasan had a vision in a dream of Sultan
Mahmud, one hundred years after his death. His whole person appeared
I have heard that a royal prince of short stature and mean presence,
whose brothers were tall and good-looking, once saw his father
You ask how many friends I have?
Water and stone, bamboo and pine.
Krishna conveyed by signs to clever Radha. [he could not speak out as her girl friends were with her] to make a pretence of milking the cows, and picking up the
O Krishna, darling of Gokula, awake
I have brought you milk, curd and sugar-candy come and partake of these delicacies: your pals are at the door, calling yo
Awake, O Krishna awake,
the night has gone arise,
Fragrant orchids in the valley lend enchantment to the air;
those puffy clouds over the mountain are also delightful.
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