LIST OF COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS
- FRONTISPIECE
- THE HOME
- THE BEGINNING
- FAIRYLAND
- PAPER BOATS
- THE MERCHANT
- THE HERO
- BENEDICTION
INDEX OF THE FIRST LINES
- Ah, these jasmines
- Ah, who was it coloured that little frock
- Bless this little heart
- Child, how happy you are sitting in the dust
- Come and hire me
- Day by day I float my paper boats
- I am small because I am a little child
- If baby only wanted to, he could fly
- If I were only a little puppy
- If people came to know where my king's palace is
- I long to go over there
- Imagine, mother
- I only said, "When in the evening"
- I paced alone
- It is time for me to go, mother
- I want to give you something, my child
- I wish I could take a quiet corner
- Mother, I do want to leave off my lessons
- Mother, let us imagine we are travelling
- Mother, the folk who live up in the clouds
- Mother, the light has grown grey
- Mother, your baby is silly
- On the seashore of endless worlds
- O you shaggy-headed banyan tree
- Say of him what you please
- Sullen clouds are gathering
- Supposing I became a champa flower
- The boat of the boatman Madhu
- The night was dark when we went away
- The sleep that flits on baby's eyes
- They clamour and fight
- This song of mine
- When I bring you coloured toys
- When storm clouds
- When the gong sounds ten
- Where have I come from
- Who stole sleep from baby's eyes
- Why are those tears in your eyes, my child
- Why do you sit there on the floor
- You say that father writes a lot of books
[The Home - from a drawing by Nandalall Bose]
THE HOME
I PACED alone on the road across the field while the sunset was hiding its last gold like a miser.