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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
- Chapter 1
Preface
14:52 - Chapter 2
An Invocation
05:54 - Chapter 3
The Secrets of the Self
10:48 - Chapter 4
Worship
01:15 - Chapter 5
Beyond the Verge of Time—Steps
01:41 - Chapter 6
Ego—Fire
02:18 - Chapter 7
The Artist
01:16 - Chapter 8
Imagery
01:52 - Chapter 9
Transience—O Long Black Hair—Revelation
01:32 - Chapter 10
“Spring that in my courtyard”—“This day will pass”
02:59 - Chapter 11
Urvasi
05:28 - Chapter 12
Open Thou Thy Door of Mercy
02:53 - Chapter 13
The Dancer
03:02 - Chapter 14
Acknowledgment
01:05 - Chapter 15
Remembrance—The Visible
02:32 - Chapter 16
In the Light
01:31 - Chapter 17
Call and Bring Her
02:14 - Chapter 18
Basanta Panchami
03:00 - Chapter 19
A Woman’s Beauty
01:25 - Chapter 20
An Evening on the Lagoon—At the Temple
02:30 - Chapter 21
Raksha Bandhan
01:39 - Chapter 22
Longings—Thoughts
02:23 - Chapter 23
The Lovers
02:01 - Chapter 24
A Blue Dream
01:22 - Chapter 25
Tulip
01:03 - Chapter 26
Return to Khairpur—India: Entertaining Twilight
09:18 - Chapter 27
Roshanara
03:23 - Chapter 28
In Praise of Henna
01:11 - Chapter 29
Imperial Delhi
01:32 - Chapter 30
Dirge
02:18 - Chapter 31
Spring—Cradle-song
01:56 - Chapter 32
June Sunset
02:17 - Chapter 33
Bunkim Chandra Chatterji
02:35 - Chapter 34
A Rose of Women—The Island Grave
02:08 - Chapter 35
Invitation
01:16 - Chapter 36
A Child’s Imagination
01:19 - Chapter 37
Evening—The Sea at Night—Lachhi
03:19 - Chapter 38
Azmē
03:19 - Chapter 39
Awake, my Friend
01:38 - Chapter 40
Marriage Song
02:39 - Chapter 41
Mystic Love Song from “Thirty Indian Songs"
01:47 - Chapter 42
The Punjab Autumn: The Season of the Cooling Dew
06:04 - Chapter 43
Râjhans (The Prince of Swans)
03:07 - Chapter 44
Later Lyrics: Poplar, Beech, and Weeping Willow
03:21 - Chapter 45
Orphic Mysteries: The Yellow Butterfly
03:18 - Chapter 46
Myvanwy
03:18 - Chapter 47
Kismet
01:48 - Chapter 48
Tansen
02:43 - Chapter 49
“The high ambition of the drop of rain”
01:04 - Chapter 50
“How difficult is the thorny way of strife”
01:44 - Chapter 51
“Thy beauty flashes like a sword”
01:23 - Chapter 52
“I shall not try to flee the sword of death”
01:58 - Chapter 53
Voice in the Air
10:31 - Chapter 54
“All this is rhythm”
01:22 - Chapter 55
“Friend, dwell thou within”—“Thou art the rose”
01:59 - Chapter 56
“Snow-blossoms, snow-blossoms”
01:24 - Chapter 57
“The rose of eternity”
01:11 - Chapter 58
“The blue of Indra”
01:04 - Chapter 59
“The shadow of a flying bird”
00:57 - Chapter 60
Love’s Samādhi—A Cradle Song
01:49 - Chapter 61
The Way of Poverty
01:21 - Chapter 62
The Last Prayer—Union with Christ
01:55 - Chapter 63
Peace
02:52