1946-47 (Jibanananda Das Poems)
There's a rather indistinct human anxiety all around in the day's light:on streets, in alleys, on tram line tracks and ...
There's a rather indistinct human anxiety all around in the day's light:on streets, in alleys, on tram line tracks and ...
A common wayside flower it grew, Unhandsome and unnoticed too, Except in deprecation That such an herb unreared by toil, Prolific cumberer of the ...
She sat on a shelf,her breasts two bellieson her poked-out belly,on which the navel lookedlike a sucked-in mouth-her knees bent ...
The smallest flower beside my path, In loveliness of bloom, Some element of comfort hath To rid my heart of gloom; But these, of ...
Mountain slopes - amphitheatre, soldier - grey actor,decoration - cliffs and smoke, olive trees and blood poppies.We walk, dark wanderers, ...
You're unhappy, sick at heart:Oh, I know it-here such sickness isn't rare.Nature can but mirrorThe surrounding poverty.All is ever drear ...
It will not always be like this,The air windless, a few lastLeaves adding their decorationTo the trees' shoulders, braiding the ...
New Year's decoration -the table with my inkstonebecomes narrow(1898)(Masaoka Shiki)
NEXT, to a graver tribe we turn our view,And yield the praise to worth and science due,But this with serious ...
(To have been read before the statue of Lafayette and Washington inParis, on Decoration Day, May 30, 1916.) Ay, it ...
YOU ruffled black blossom,You glossy dark wind.Your sort of gorgeousness,Dark and lustrousAnd skinny repulsiveAnd poppy-glossy,Is the gorgeousness that evokes my ...
"Bill Dwiggins had been Billy thirty years,A boyish name which piqued his clever wife,As if her man were ticketed light-weightOut ...
Cats walk the floor at midnight; that enemy of fog,The moon, wraps the bedpost in receding stillness; sleepCollects all weary ...
A MonologueThink about it at will: there is thatWhich is the commentary; there's that other,Which may be called the immaculateConception ...
I'D LIKE to be a bank clerk, and sit inside a cage, I'd like to take and hoard away the ...
This is his path to the windthe last white segment of the earthhe sprung from: and his birthhas come to ...
When I am tired of earnest men, Intense and keen and sharp and clever, Pursuing fame with brush or pen ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
Over the terminal, the arms and chest of the god brightened by snow. Formerly mercury, formerly silver, surface yellowed by ...
MAMIE beat her head against the bars of a little Indiana town and dreamed of romance and big things off ...
Ye sons of Germany, your noble Emperor William now is dead. Who oft great armies to battle hath led; He ...
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