The Wisdom of the East Series
Edited by
L. CRANMER-BYNG
Dr. S. A. KAPADIA

ANTHOLOGY OF
MODERN INDIAN POETRY
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WISDOM OF THE EAST

ANTHOLOGY OF
MODERN INDIAN
POETRY

EDITED BY
GWENDOLINE GOODWIN

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W
First Edition, 1927
Printed in Great Britain by
Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury.

CONTENTS

PAGE
Preface[9]
Acknowledgments[19]
An Invocation[23]
The Secrets of the Self[27]
Worship[34]
Beyond the Verge of Time—Steps[35]
Ego—Fire[36]
The Artist[37]
Imagery[38]
Transience—O Long Black Hair—Revelation[39]
“Spring that in my courtyard”—“This day will pass”[40]
Urvasi[42]
Open Thou Thy Door of Mercy[47]
The Dancer[48]
Acknowledgment[49]
Remembrance—The Visible[50]
In the Light[51]
Call and Bring Her[52]
Basanta Panchami[53]
A Woman’s Beauty[54]
An Evening on the Lagoon—At the Temple[55]
Raksha Bandhan[56]
Longings—Thoughts[57]
The Lovers[58]
A Blue Dream[59]
Tulip[60]
Return to Khairpur—India: Entertaining Twilight[61]
Roshanara[66]
In Praise of Henna[68]
Imperial Delhi[69]
Dirge[70]
Spring—Cradle-song[71]
June Sunset[72]
Bunkim Chandra Chatterji[73]
A Rose of Women—The Island Grave[75]
Invitation[76]
A Child’s Imagination[77]
Evening—The Sea at Night—Lachhi[78]
Azmē[79]
Awake, my Friend[81]
Marriage Song[82]
Mystic Love Song from “Thirty Indian Songs"[83]
The Punjab Autumn: The Season of the Cooling Dew[84]
Râjhans (The Prince of Swans)[89]
Later Lyrics: Poplar, Beech, and Weeping Willow[90]
Orphic Mysteries: The Yellow Butterfly[93]
Myvanwy[96]
Kismet[99]
Tansen[100]
“The high ambition of the drop of rain”[101]
“How difficult is the thorny way of strife”[102]
“Thy beauty flashes like a sword”[103]
“I shall not try to flee the sword of death”[104]
Voice in the Air[105]
“All this is rhythm”[112]
“Friend, dwell thou within”—“Thou art the rose”[113]
“Snow-blossoms, snow-blossoms”[114]
“The rose of eternity”[116]
“The blue of Indra”[117]
“The shadow of a flying bird”[118]
Love’s Samādhi—A Cradle Song[120]
The Way of Poverty[121]
The Last Prayer—Union with Christ[122]
Peace[123]