About this book
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. "The call of Youth in India is a hot young call, trumpeting down the ages through a maze of polytheistic tribute, and emerging in the twentieth century with some of its original clearness of sound drowned by a Gargantuan thunder of Western drums. The Indian poet of to-day is torn, like the Indian painter, between admiration for Western models and a desire to mould himself thereon, and an inherent Indian tradition that runs in his veins and will not be denied." - Summary by LynneT and from the Preface.
Chapters (62)
1An Invocation
2The Secrets of the Self
3Worship
4Beyond the Verge of Time—Steps
5Ego—Fire
6The Artist
7Imagery
8Transience—O Long Black Hair—Revelation
9“Spring that in my courtyard”—“This day will pass”
10Urvasi
11Open Thou Thy Door of Mercy
12The Dancer
13Acknowledgment
14Remembrance—The Visible
15In the Light
16Call and Bring Her
17Basanta Panchami
18A Woman’s Beauty
19An Evening on the Lagoon—At the Temple
20Raksha Bandhan
21Longings—Thoughts
22The Lovers
23A Blue Dream
24Tulip
25Return to Khairpur—India: Entertaining Twilight
26Roshanara
27In Praise of Henna
28Imperial Delhi
29Dirge
30Spring—Cradle-song
31June Sunset
32Bunkim Chandra Chatterji
33A Rose of Women—The Island Grave
34Invitation
35A Child’s Imagination
36Evening—The Sea at Night—Lachhi
37Azmē
38Awake, my Friend
39Marriage Song
40Mystic Love Song from “Thirty Indian Songs"
41The Punjab Autumn: The Season of the Cooling Dew
42Râjhans (The Prince of Swans)
43Later Lyrics: Poplar, Beech, and Weeping Willow
44Orphic Mysteries: The Yellow Butterfly
45Myvanwy
46Kismet
47Tansen
48“The high ambition of the drop of rain”
49“How difficult is the thorny way of strife”
50“Thy beauty flashes like a sword”
51“I shall not try to flee the sword of death”
52Voice in the Air
53“All this is rhythm”
54“Friend, dwell thou within”—“Thou art the rose”
55“Snow-blossoms, snow-blossoms”
56“The rose of eternity”
57“The blue of Indra”
58“The shadow of a flying bird”
59Love’s Samādhi—A Cradle Song
60The Way of Poverty
61The Last Prayer—Union with Christ
62Peace
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