You delight in laying down laws, Yet you delight more in breaking them. Like children playing by the ocean who build sand-towers with constancy and then destroy them with laughter. But while you build your sand-towers the ocean brings more sand to the shore, And when you destroy them the ocean laughs with you. Verily the ocean laughs always with the innocent.
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Love and Death-Sri Aurobindo
Fresh-cheeked and dew-eyed white Priyumvada
Opened her budded heart of crimson bloom
To love, to Ruru; Ruru, a happy flood
Of passion round a lotus dancing thrilled,
Blinded with his soul's waves Priyumvada.
Address to the Ganges by Shoshee Chunder Dutt
Address to the Ganges The waves are dashing proudly down, Along thy sounding shore; Lashing, with all the storm of power, The craggy base of mountain tower, Of mosque, and pagod hoar, That darkly o'er thy waters frown; As if…
Hymn to Shiva by Umesh Chunder Dutt
Hymn to Shiva Shiva! whom all the gods in heaven obey, Thou mightiest, deign to hear my humble prayer! I've sinned. Oh, save me from the fiend Despair, Which turns to gloom the sunshine of the day! The angry storms…
Boatmen’s Song to Ganga by Kasiprasad Ghose
THE BOATMEN'S SONG TO GANGA. Gold river! gold river! how gallantly now Our bark on thy bright breast is lifting her prow. In the pride of her beauty, how swiftly she flies: Like a white-winged spirit through topaz-paved skies! Gold…
Storm and Rain by Kasiprasad Ghose
Storm and Rain The mighty demons of the storm have met In battle fierce. Relentless anger fires Their bosoms, proud of desolating power. Their swords in rapid wavings flash; and oft In lightning gleams illume the darkened earth. Hark! how…
Gandhari’s Lament for the Slain by Romesh Chunder Dutt
Mahabharata. GANDHARI'S LAMENT FOR THE SLAIN. Stainless Queen and stainless woman, ever righteous ever good, Stately in her mighty sorrow on the field Gandhari stood! Strewn with skulls and clotted tresses, darkened by the stream of gore, With the limbs…
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Hymn to Durga-Nabakrishna Ghosh
Hymn to Durga HAIL Mighty Goddess! Universal Soul! Power or Love, Fate or Illusion sweet! Whate'er thy name, O mother, whose control All nature quickens—humbly thee I greet! Hail! ten-armed Goddess of the lion-throne, Whose power Time and Space…
William Shakespeare-Selected Poetry
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene I [Over hill, over dale]
Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne]
As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [All the world's a stage]
As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [Blow, blow, thou winter wind]
From fairest creatures we desire increase (Sonnet 1)
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