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 Sadness (18 Poems)
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 ...
Raymond And Ida (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
Raymond.earest, that sit'st in dreams, Through the window look, this way.How changed and desolate seemsThe world, Ida, to-day!Heavy and low the ...
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 ...
Autumn (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
By thy wave I linger,Silent stream!Autumn's golden fingerPaints thy dream.From the beeches fallingDown thy face,Summer, past recalling,Drifts apace.Only mists rise ...
Oak, Pine And Silver Birch (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
IOak, whose mossed antiquity stands leafily ashiver,Oldest oracles, each dawn, in earth's ear to deliver,Prom your whispering world of leaves, ...
Poplar, Beech, And Weeping Willow (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
1Shapely poplar, shivering white, poplar like a maiden,Thinking, musing softly here, so light and so unladen,That with every breath and ...
“Thou who hast follow’d far with eyes of love” (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
Thou who hast follow'd far with eyes of loveThe shy and virgin sights of Spring to-day,Sad soul, what dost thou ...
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 ...
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 ...
Heavenly Sorrow (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
Sorrow, heavenly sorrow!Wake thou in my breast.It is to rouse thee with the cold grey morrow,Melancholy, as thou springst in ...
Myvanwy In The Woods (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
Virgin darkness, wet and deep,Where dwells but April, dwells but sleep,What presence clear,Like a beam has entered here?What loved footsteps, ...
“‘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 ...