Shakuntala Act V (Kalidasa Poems)
ACT VSCENE -The PALACE.An old Chamberlain, sighing.Chamberlain.ALAS! What a decrepit old age have I attained! -This wand, which I first ...
ACT VSCENE -The PALACE.An old Chamberlain, sighing.Chamberlain.ALAS! What a decrepit old age have I attained! -This wand, which I first ...
Blest by the song! (a bard, though humble, cries),That moves by Pity's power th' infuriate breast;Lures Mercy beaming from her ...
1 When Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes2 First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakespear rose;3 Each change of many-colour'd life ...
The last days of August…. Autumn was already at hand.The sun was setting. A sudden downpour of rain, without thunder ...
ADDRESSED TO A PINE-TREE. The ruffian North has spent his savage power, Collects his winds, and quits the mountain's side; And Auster mild, ...
Many long years ago, I loved a youth,Who seemed the soul of honor and of truth-He charmed my heart with ...
THE flowers are at their Bacchanals Among the lusty green;Wild Orchis and Narcissus waltz With Marguerite for queen.Birds join in glees and ...
THE SPINNER twisted her slender thread As she sat and spun: "The earth and the heavens are mine," she said, "And the moon ...
1 BLESSED was she that bare, Hidden in flesh most fair,For all men's sake ...
By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, Remembering thee,That for ages of agony hast endured, ...
RELENTLESS war, must still thy dreaded callThe tender lover from his mistress part?From beauty's eyes bid tears of anguish fall,And ...
I.HONEY-FLOWERS to the honey-comb, And the honey-bee's from home.A honey-comb and a honey-flower, And the bee shall have his hour.A ...
I. ALL love-adepts, all faithful hearts who wear In Love's sweet prime-his hour of blossoming- The full, harmonious colours of ...
I saw beneath its native stemThe sever'd Vine-branch layed,The dews were fresh upon its cheek,The sun-beam on its head.The new-blown ...
The wind-swayed daisies, that on every sideThrong the wide fields in whispering companies,Serene and gently smiling like the eyesOf tender ...
A music-stand of crimson lacquer, long since brought In some fast clipper-ship from China, quaintly wrought With bossed and carven ...
DAMON. Haste! Sylvia! haste, my charming Maid! Let's leave these fashionable toys; Let's seek the shelter of some shade, And ...
By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, Remembering thee, That for ages of agony hast endured, and ...
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