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Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry

Public domain audiobook

Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry

by Gwendoline Goodwin

English· 02:56:43· 63 chapters
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.

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Preface

    14:52
  2. Chapter 2

    An Invocation

    05:54
  3. Chapter 3

    The Secrets of the Self

    10:48
  4. Chapter 4

    Worship

    01:15
  5. Chapter 5

    Beyond the Verge of Time—Steps

    01:41
  6. Chapter 6

    Ego—Fire

    02:18
  7. Chapter 7

    The Artist

    01:16
  8. Chapter 8

    Imagery

    01:52
  9. Chapter 9

    Transience—O Long Black Hair—Revelation

    01:32
  10. Chapter 10

    “Spring that in my courtyard”—“This day will pass”

    02:59
  11. Chapter 11

    Urvasi

    05:28
  12. Chapter 12

    Open Thou Thy Door of Mercy

    02:53
  13. Chapter 13

    The Dancer

    03:02
  14. Chapter 14

    Acknowledgment

    01:05
  15. Chapter 15

    Remembrance—The Visible

    02:32
  16. Chapter 16

    In the Light

    01:31
  17. Chapter 17

    Call and Bring Her

    02:14
  18. Chapter 18

    Basanta Panchami

    03:00
  19. Chapter 19

    A Woman’s Beauty

    01:25
  20. Chapter 20

    An Evening on the Lagoon—At the Temple

    02:30
  21. Chapter 21

    Raksha Bandhan

    01:39
  22. Chapter 22

    Longings—Thoughts

    02:23
  23. Chapter 23

    The Lovers

    02:01
  24. Chapter 24

    A Blue Dream

    01:22
  25. Chapter 25

    Tulip

    01:03
  26. Chapter 26

    Return to Khairpur—India: Entertaining Twilight

    09:18
  27. Chapter 27

    Roshanara

    03:23
  28. Chapter 28

    In Praise of Henna

    01:11
  29. Chapter 29

    Imperial Delhi

    01:32
  30. Chapter 30

    Dirge

    02:18
  31. Chapter 31

    Spring—Cradle-song

    01:56
  32. Chapter 32

    June Sunset

    02:17
  33. Chapter 33

    Bunkim Chandra Chatterji

    02:35
  34. Chapter 34

    A Rose of Women—The Island Grave

    02:08
  35. Chapter 35

    Invitation

    01:16
  36. Chapter 36

    A Child’s Imagination

    01:19
  37. Chapter 37

    Evening—The Sea at Night—Lachhi

    03:19
  38. Chapter 38

    Azmē

    03:19
  39. Chapter 39

    Awake, my Friend

    01:38
  40. Chapter 40

    Marriage Song

    02:39
  41. Chapter 41

    Mystic Love Song from “Thirty Indian Songs"

    01:47
  42. Chapter 42

    The Punjab Autumn: The Season of the Cooling Dew

    06:04
  43. Chapter 43

    Râjhans (The Prince of Swans)

    03:07
  44. Chapter 44

    Later Lyrics: Poplar, Beech, and Weeping Willow

    03:21
  45. Chapter 45

    Orphic Mysteries: The Yellow Butterfly

    03:18
  46. Chapter 46

    Myvanwy

    03:18
  47. Chapter 47

    Kismet

    01:48
  48. Chapter 48

    Tansen

    02:43
  49. Chapter 49

    “The high ambition of the drop of rain”

    01:04
  50. Chapter 50

    “How difficult is the thorny way of strife”

    01:44
  51. Chapter 51

    “Thy beauty flashes like a sword”

    01:23
  52. Chapter 52

    “I shall not try to flee the sword of death”

    01:58
  53. Chapter 53

    Voice in the Air

    10:31
  54. Chapter 54

    “All this is rhythm”

    01:22
  55. Chapter 55

    “Friend, dwell thou within”—“Thou art the rose”

    01:59
  56. Chapter 56

    “Snow-blossoms, snow-blossoms”

    01:24
  57. Chapter 57

    “The rose of eternity”

    01:11
  58. Chapter 58

    “The blue of Indra”

    01:04
  59. Chapter 59

    “The shadow of a flying bird”

    00:57
  60. Chapter 60

    Love’s Samādhi—A Cradle Song

    01:49
  61. Chapter 61

    The Way of Poverty

    01:21
  62. Chapter 62

    The Last Prayer—Union with Christ

    01:55
  63. Chapter 63

    Peace

    02:52