Immortal Eve – IV (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
1Her eyes were not of amethyst,Her teeth were not of pearl.Human all over, laughing, crying,Shrewd, simple, just a girl!Cheerful at ...
Manmohan Ghose Poems on Life (19 Poems)
Immortal Eve – I (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
1I the first man, the majestyOf creatures, Time's tall birth,Spring at God's finger-touch erect,Glorying upon earth.Above me the blue solemn ...
Immortal Eve – III (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
1Peace, clamorous trumpets! Silence, drums!Be breathless all and hush!Let die applause. My lady comes,My lady of the blush.She's bashfuller than ...
Immortal Eve – II (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
1Dear, could the wise creator makeMe, nor imagine you,When from his wisdom's awful breathI came like trembling dew,You under my ...
The Black Swallow-Tail Butterfly (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
Beautiful dancer upon the wind of the life in thy flutteringwings,O mingle of breeze and sunlight, whose glancing gaietysingsOf the ...
A Vision Of Death And Sleep (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
O'er her death-bedWith sobs I hung,Wild, idle sobs, and in my lonely painKiss'd the dead face again and yet again,And ...
Butterfly And Honey-Bee (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
Who painted thy wings for a vision, a pageant of summer,Butterfly gay?Who made thee, thou hovering silence for ever at ...
Mentem Mortalia Tangunt (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
Now lonely is the wood:No flower now lingers, none!The virgin sisterhoodOf roses, all are gone;Now Autumn sheds her latest leaf;And ...
Sapphics (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
Cease, O my spirit, cease this endless yearning!Idly thou seekest; gone is it, past hoping,That golden treasure: thine own sweet ...
The Eternal Infant (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
Lord of the lovely pageant,Maker of night and day,Is this a theme for glory,To give and take away?I am no ...
The Dewdrop (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
In the bliss, they say, of the love that laves the skies andocean and earth,All things hasten to lose, they ...
It Cannot Be (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
It cannot beRose, violet, lily,Their crushed life should retain,Flowers that recall thy sweetness be ensouled,And thou distil to nothing, thou ...
The Wind In The Trees (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
At the window I lean,And my heart is a mist.Tis a whispering scene,Where all was whist!Whist and still was the ...
London (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
Farewell, sweetest country; out of my heart, you roses,Wayside roses, nodding, the slow traveller to keep.Too long have I drowsed ...
The Lonely Road (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
IFor your blithe step I sighGone on the road before me;For your warm hand I cryOn life's path rough and ...
“‘Tis my twentieth year: dim, now, youth stretches behind me;” (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
'Tis my twentieth year: dim, now, youth stretches behind me; Breaking fresh at my feet, lies, like an ocean, the world. And ...
Home-Thoughts (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
While I recall you o'er deep parting seas,Lonelier have grown these cliffs, this English grass.Haunt of my heart, dear faces, ...
Lines – II (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
Ah, why so solemn, Memory?Her sacred ashes take,And of adoring sighs and tearsA holy ikon make:My dead love, as she ...
A Lament (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
Over thy head, in joyful wanderingsThrough heaven's wide spaces, free,Birds fly with music in their wings;And from the blue, rough ...