Cuckoo : To the Cuckoo by Wordsworth.
... in fragrance mid the honey-buds. 104 Let us now hear what Kalidasa has to say about the male cuckoo and the bee: puṃs-kokilaś cūta-rasāsavena mattaḥ priyām cumbati ragahrstah\ gunjad-dvirepho 'py ayam ambuja-sthaḥ priyaṃ priyāyaḥ prakaroti cāṭ\\ 105 The male cuckoo, drunk with wine of the juice of the mango-flower, kisses his beloved, glad of the sweet attraction... transmutation. The joy of union is not an eroto-aesthetic enjoyment but the primal ānanda , "the thrill that made the world". His Spring speaks to the soul; his is not the voice of the sweet-singing cuckoo that calls to the senses: His voice was a call to the Transcendent's sphere Whose secret touch upon our mortal lives Keeps ever new the thrill that made the world. 103 In... sweet. (Sri Aurobindo's translation, Kalidasa , SABCL, Vol. 3, p. 259.) And cūtāṅkurasvada-kaṣāya-kaṇṭthah puṃs-kokilo...madhuraṃ cukūja/ 06 Sweetly sang the male cuckoo whose voice had grown passionate from his relishing the mango-buds. And about the white jasmine ( kuṇda ) Kalidasa says: kundaiḥ sa-vibhrama-vadhū-hasitāvadātair uddyotitāny upavānani ...
... कुक्कुटकः Sound. a small house-lizard. कौक्कुट (adj), कौक्कटिक: poulterer. कुक्कुभः a cock. कुक्कुरः a dog. कुर्कुरः कोकः cuckoo .. frog .. wild lizard .. ruddy goose .. wolf. कोकिलः cuckoo. (2) कुक्कुटः a wisp of lighted straw.. spark Light — कोकिलः firebrand. कुकूलः (लं) a fire made of chaff — see below (a) blaze. कुंकुमं... sheath of sword. Hollow. Contain कुक्षिंभरि gluttonous, voracious.. filling the interior. Hollow. Contain कुकुमं saffron .. saffron plant. Light (colour) कोकः cuckoo कोकिलः; frog; wild lizard Sound. ruddy goose (chakravaka). Wolf. (कुक् or कह्) कोकनदं red lotus Light (colour) कोकाहः white horse कुक् or कह् Sound or... sochal salt. Page 640 कौदालिकः a fisherman .. man of mixed caste ककुन्दरं hollow bellow hips — कुकुन्दरः, कूपकः Curve, Hollow कुन् कुनकः crow कुनालिका cuckoo. कोनालकः, -का, -कं an aquatic bird. कुंद् कुदः, कुंदं a jasmine scent or colour कुदः lotus .. कुदिनी a multitude of lotuses scent or colour a fragrant oleander ...
... bounteous winds about the garden go. Apt to my soul art thou, blithe honeyed moon, O lovely mother of the rose-red June. Zephyr that all things soothes, enhances all, Dwells with thee softly, the near cuckoo drawn To farther groves with sweet inviting call And dewy buds upon the blossoming lawn. But ah, today some happy soft unrest Aspires and pants in my unquiet breast, As if some light were from... large serener lights and joy of exquisite sounds. Nor have I any in whose ears to tell This gracious grief and so by words have peace, Save the cold hyacinth in the breezy dell And the sweet cuckoo in the sunlit trees Since the sharp autumn days when with increase Of rosy-lighted cheeks attained the ground Weary of waiting and by wasps hung round The bough's fair hangings and Thea fell with... exquisiteness. But if these brilliants of their pleasure fail, The lily blooms from vale to scented vale And crocus lifts in Spring its golden fire. Our midnight hears the warbling nightingale, The cuckoo calls as he would never tire; Along our hills we pluck the purple grapes, And in the night a million stars arise To watch us with their ancient friendly eyes. Such flowering ease I have and earth's ...
... after his return to India in 1893: "Lines on Ireland" (dated 1896), "Saraswati with the Lotus" and "Bankim Chandra Chatterji" (both written after the death of Bankim in 1894), and "To the Cuckoo" (originally subtitled" A Spring morning in India"). "Madhusudan Dutt" was probably also written in Baroda, as were the two adaptations of poems by Chandidasa. This makes seven poems. The... Myrtilla . Circa 1890–98. This, the title-poem of the collection, is headed in the manuscript "Sweet is the night". O Coïl, Coïl. Circa 1890–98. The coïl is the koyel or Indian cuckoo. Goethe . Circa 1890–98. The Lost Deliverer . Circa 1890–98. In the manuscript and the Baroda edition, this epigram is entitled "Ferdinand Lassalle". Lassalle (1825... after Bankim's death in 1894. The poem is entitled in the manuscript "Lines written after reading a novel of Bunkim Chundra Chatterji". Madhusudan Dutt. Circa 1893–98. To the Cuckoo . Circa 1893–98. Subtitled in the manuscript "A Spring morning in India". The subtitle may have been deleted from the Baroda edition simply for lack of space. Envoi . Circa 1890–98 ...
... leaves a crowning-room. Gold-flowers of Chompuk o'er him stand, The umbrellaed symbol of command; The cary-buds a crown do set And before him sings a court-poet The Indian cuckoo to whom is given The sweetest note of all the seven. Peacocks dance and for instrument Murmur of bees, while sacrament Of blessing and all priestly words Brahmins recite... I lay down on my bed; The dress had fallen from my limbs, I slept with rumours overhead. The peacocks in the treetops high Between their gorgeous dances shrilled, The cuckoo cried exultantly, The frogs were clamourous in the field; And ever with insistent chime The bird of rumour shrieking fled Amidst the rain, at such a time A vision stood... the following: Page 214 (Extract from Chaitanya-caritamrta) "Krsna's deep voice is more resonant than newly arrived clouds, and His sweet song defeats even the sweet voice of the cuckoo. Indeed, His song is so sweet that even one particle of its sound can inundate the entire world. If such a particle enters one's ear, one is immediately bereft of all other types of hearing. My ...
... could lack interest only to those who have no mind for poetry of this character. March 1932 Does not a compound like "flesh-fret" recall such typically Hopkinsian compounds as "bugle-blue", "cuckoo-call", "fast-flying" or "dapple-dawn-drawn"? Surely, one cannot be accused of being Hopkinsian, merely because of a successfully copious alliteration and an alliterative compound? These things... Hopkins,—to that only he can plead Yes or No. What I say is that the way he uses them is not Hopkinsian, not Swinburnian, but Arjavan. "Flesh-fret" has not the least resemblance to "bugle-blue" or "cuckoo-call" or "fast-flying", still less to "dapple-dawn-drawn" except the mere external fact of the alliterative structure; its spiritual quality is quite different. To take an idea or a formation or anything ...
... though they could not always result in imaginative finish as distinguished from intellectual polish. Dorothy records in her diary how her brother once made himself sick, finding a new epithet for the cuckoo. And we know how there was no facility in at least the manner of composition: he used to pace restlessly in the groves of Alfoxden or on the garden path of Grasmere while composing poetry. Nor was... wide-awake sensi- Page 224 tiveness to word-values is illustrated by the remark we have quoted from Dorothy about his feverish exertion to hit upon a revealing adjective for the cuckoo, and also by his own reference to Sir Walter Scott: "Walter Scott is not a careful composer. He allows himself many liberties which betray a want of respect for his reader. He quoted, as from me, ...
... and buoyancy what can be more Kalidasian than this? पुंस्कोकिलश्चूतरसासवेन मत्तः प्रियं चुम्बति रागहृष्टः । गुञ्जन् द्विरेफोऽप्ययमम्बुजस्थः प्रियं प्रियायाः प्रकरोति चाटु ॥ "The male cuckoo, drunk with wine of the juice of the mango flower, kisses his beloved, glad of the sweet attraction, and here the bee murmuring in the lotus-blossom hums flattery's sweetness to his sweet." There... सहकारशाखा विस्तारयन् परभृतस्य वचांसि दिक्षु । वायुर्विवाति हृदयानि हरन्नराणां नीहारपातविगमात् सुभगो वसन्ते ॥ "Making to tremble the flowering branches of the mango trees, spreading the cry of the cuckoo in the regions the wind ranges ravishing the hearts of mortals, by the passing of the dewfalls gracious in the springtide." If we take Kalidasa anywhere in his lighter metres we shall Page 184 ...
... line. Think of Parikshith, Janamejoya, think Of Suthaneke, then on our Vuthsa gaze. Glacier and rock and all Himaloy piled! What eagle peaks! Now this soft valley blooms; Page 641 The cuckoo cries from branches of delight, The bee sails murmuring its low-winged desires. VASUNTHA It was to amuse himself God made the world. For He was dull alone! Therefore all things Vary to keep... Each other on the strings of body and mind, Is all the music for which life was born. Vasuntha, let me hear thy happy crackling, Thou fire of thorns that leapest all the day. Spring, call thy cuckoo. VASUNTHA Give me fuel then, Your green young boughs of folly for my fire. VUTHSA I give enough I think for all the world. VASUNTHA It is your trade to occupy the world. Men ...
... is, does the seed grow out of the tree or vice versa? Mark the nature of her perplexity. If she would have a dream, I imagine that in it she would have been singing and soaring like a lark or like a cuckoo. 53 I will tell you about another instance that is very simple. It happened long, long ago. A friend of mine came to me asking for my help in the illness he was suffering from. I said, "I am... 99 degrees Fahrenheit, and the cause seemed something minor. The patient began to improve, but 53 Nirod-da is playing on the meaning of the student's name in the vernacular: 'Kokila means cuckoo. Page 29 the fever persisted - not a high fever at all, just 99 degrees. But it continued for days, which worried me. Why should it persist when all the other improvements have taken ...
... Naraian. Then upon the desolate Himalaya Spring set the beauty of his feet; the warm south wind breathed upon those inclement heights, blossoming trees grew in the eternal snow and the voice of the cuckoo was heard upon the mountain tops. It was amidst this vernal sweetness that the Opsaras came to Naraian; they were the loveliest of all the sisterhood who came, & subtlest & most alluring of feminine ...
... it cries, "Here's this queer-looking idiot and scoundrel who has not been properly introduced to me, wanting to turn out my half-truth whom I know and who has helped me for centuries. Out with the cuckoo! A horse-whip for the bounder!" And out goes Truth, lucky if she is only expelled, not burned, garrotted, mobbed or censorshipped out of existence, and has to take her next chance five hundred years ...
... and tears. I have not numbered half the brilliant birds In one green forest, nor am familiar grown With sunrise and the progress of the eves, Nor have with plaintive cries of birds made friends, Cuckoo and rainlark and love-speak-to-me. I have not learned the names of half the flowers Around me; so few trees know me by my name; Nor have I seen the stars so very often That I should die. I feel ...
... Songs to Myrtilla Collected Poems To the Cuckoo Sounds of the wakening world, the year's increase, Passage of wind and all his dewy powers With breath and laughter of new-bathed flowers And that deep light of heaven above the trees Awake mid leaves that muse in golden peace Sweet noise of birds, but most in heavenly showers The cuckoo's voice ...
... ever with strange and delicate faces. Music is here of the fife and the flute and the lyre and the timbal, Wind in the forests, bees in the grove,—spring's ardent cymbal Thrilling, the cry of the cuckoo; the nightingale sings in the branches, Human laughter is heard and the cattle low in the ranches. Frankly and sweetly she gives to her children the bliss of her body, Breath of her lips and the ...
... silence lonelier! Only the eagle rejoices In the inhuman height of his nesting,—austerely striving, Deaf with the cry of the waterfall, only the pine there is thriving. We have the voice of the cuckoo, the nightingale sings in the branches, Human laughter leads and the cattle low in the ranches. Come to our tangled sunbeams, dawn on our twilights and shadows, Taste with us, scent with us fruits ...
... a spondee but it does not transform it into a spondee. To take an instance from a hexameter movement— Wind in the forests, bees in the grove,—spring's ardent cymbal Thrilling, the cry of the cuckoo. Here the word "ardent" easily replaces a dactyl or spondee as a modulation, but it remains trochaic. There is more possibility of treating "forests" here with its three heavy consonants as a ...
... itself, listening perhaps to its memories of old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago or feeling and hearing, it may be said, the vast oceanic stillness and the cry of the cuckoo Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides or it may enter again into Vyasa's "A void and dreadful forest ringing with the crickets' cry" Vanaṁ pratibhayaṁ śūnyaṁ ...
... the Tagorean sparrow by which you set great store would be an organic element. Here as well as throughout the poem there is no straining after any "super-bird". Actually Love and Death mentions Cuckoo and rainlark and love-speak-to-me and A peacock with his melancholy cry Complaining far away, and mentions how, when Ruru sat in stunned and still absorption after Priyumvada's death ...
... vary from a comprehensive declaration like Shakespeare's 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on' to the most tenuous apprehension of a quality physical, or spiritual, or both, as in 'the plainsong cuckoo gray.' " Here he is right. But afterwards he falls short and betrays inconsistency. On the second point I shall read out to you his position: "What is essential is that the 'thought' should be an intrinsic ...
... been written around the time when he translated Bhartrihari's Nīti Śataka into English (see Translations , volume 5 of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO).The last two verses, mentioning Bana and a cuckoo, seem related to his Bengali poem Ushaharan Kavya (published on pages 595-643 of this volume). Prāņa idaṁ sarvam . This prose passage, untitled in the manuscript, was apparently intended to ...
... with the same termination to various descriptive, reflective or suggestive phrases may be cited. There is Housman's delightfully Page 154 atmospheric snatch from Nature: The cuckoo shouts all day at nothing In leafy dells, alone. There is the deeply poignant religious conviction of an early Sonneteer: All love is lost except on God alone. Wordsworth's ...
... es with the same termination to various descriptive, reflective or suggestive phrases may be cited. There is Housman's delightfully atmospheric snatch from Nature: Page 265 The cuckoo shouts all day at nothing In leafy dells, alone. There is the deeply poignant religious conviction of an early Sonneteer: All love is lost except on God alone. Wordsworth's ...
... "Duns Scotus's Oxford" and the first two lines don't bring in boughs, as you thought, but branches as I did. They run in typical Hopkinsian: Towery city and branchy between towers; Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmed, lark-charmed, rook-racked, river-rounded... You are right about the Shakespeare-reference, except that Page 379 it doesn't have the word "branches" ...
... itself listening perhaps to its memories of Old, unhappy, far-off things And battles long ago 16 or feeling and hearing, it may be said, the vast oceanic stillness and the cry of the cuckoo Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides 17 or it may enter again into Vyasa's A void and dreadful forest ringing with the crickets' cry variant ...
... beasts to prowl or move around, a deep recess where is heard no disturbing sound nor any voice. Only at times may visit there, by the waters, swans or female cranes or, with an occasional lonely cry, cuckoo-birds. But if the peacocks should prefer to come and stay in the vicinity, it may be quite all right and acceptable. Somewhere there, hidden and cloistered, may exist an anchorite’s small shelter or ...
... beauty and grace of a magician's art. How often we have read these lines and heard them repeated and yet they have not grown stale: A voice so thrilling never was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides, or, Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. This magic has ...
... sound: Music is here of the fife and the flute and the lyre and the timbal, Wind in the forests, bees in the grove, - spring's ardent symbol Thrilling, the cry of the cuckoo; the nightingale sings in the branches, Human laughter is heard and the cattle low in the ranches. 29 Earth is indeed crammed with loveliness, and it cannot all be a vain emptiness ...
... reality, it is not Matter that is unconscious, it is the Mind. The mind has covered everything with a layer of unconsciousness and separation. It has separated itself from everything—like the Swiss cuckoo in its clock. That evening She told them: It is the Divine in unconsciousness that aspires for the Divine in consciousness. Without the Divine, there would be no aspiration, and without the consciousness ...
... that wander through eternity." 9 III "We can feel perhaps the spirit of the universe feeling and hearing, it may be said, the vast oceanic stillness and the cry of the cuckoo" "Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides" Or it may enter again into Vyasa's "A void and dreadful forest ringing with the cricket's cry" " Vanam ...
... Milton's "Those thoughts that wander through eternity" III. "We can feel perhaps the spirit of the universe feeling and hearing, it may be said, the vast oceanic stillness and the cry of the cuckoo "Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides" or it may enter again into Vyasa's "A void and dreadful forest ringing with the cricket's cry" "Vanam pratibhayam ...
... maiden there Listened with downcast lids and a soft flush Upon her like the coming of a blush. But when he finished and the air was mute, She laughed with happy lips most like a flute Or voice of cuckoo in an Indian grove Waking the heart to vague delightful love. And with divine eyes gleaming where strange mirth A smiling mischief was, the living girth Of her delicious waist she suddenly Unbound ...
... Paraclete 562 The Three Cries of Deiphobus 189 The Tiger and the Deer 583 To a Hero-Worshipper 41 Page 739 To R. 280 To the Boers 247 To the Cuckoo 36 To the Ganges 256 To the hill-tops of silence 649 To the Modern Priam 188 To the Sea 207 To weep because a glorious sun 182 Torn are the walls 675 ...
... 08-April-1907 When things violent or fearful take place let no one be alarmed or discouraged—they also are "His goings forth". That there will be only the piping time of peace and we shall sing of the cuckoo and the spring is expecting something unnatural. An individual or a nation cannot rise to its full height except through trouble and stress. The stone block patiently submits to hammering, cutting ...
... of its own band: And down the distance they, With dying note and swelling, Walk the resounding way To the still dwelling. Or let the same lyrist present a bit of Nature: The cuckoo shouts all day at nothing In leafy dells alone. Presland's verses, piercing, powerful, passionate, and Housman's of a melancholy at once exquisite and majestic in the first quotation and of ...
... on Rose Aylmer; you can see there how emotion itself can gain by a spare austerity in self-expression. It is doubtful whether all these kinds—Wordsworth's lyrics, for example, the Daffodils, the Cuckoo —can be classed as austere. On the other hand, there can be a very real spirit and power of underlying austerity behind a considerable wealth and richness of expression. Arnold in one of his poems ...
... I'm dead. Yes, that was what I wanted now to tell you: That my heart and soul had bowed to him, first and last, As a being divine to whom the revealing light Is native as is warbling to the cuckoo, Depth to the ocean and wideness to the spaces, Rustling to leaves and irised hues to rainbows, Bloom to wild flowers and innocence to children. ( She warms up ) No wonder he's hailed by ...
... sleep of the just, the man who has done justice to the divine discontent in him. Dorothy Wordsworth records how William once wore his nerves to shreds trying to find a new revealing epithet for the cuckoo. I can quite understand William's scrupulousness — would he had never learned to wear his readers' nerves to shreds as he did in later life by finding a country parson's tongue in trees and Sunday ...
... with a name which has been invested with a soulfully romantic magic after that passage in "The Solitary Reaper" of Wordsworth: A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In springtime from the Cuckoo-bird Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. Your recent experiences in England interest me a great deal. The appearance of Champaklal in your midst must have ...
... e, noise" and could stand also for "fuss" in colloquial Elizabethanese. In Sri Aurobindo's early poetry it has an Indian avatar with a trema-sign over the i: "coil". It is the Hindi name for the cuckoo whose Sanskrit appellation is "kokila". In common English the current spelling for this bird is "koel" with the accent on the first syllable which is intrinsically long. Now for the query ...
... listening perhaps to its memories of old, unhappy, far-off things And battles long ago or feeling and hearing, it may be said, the vast oceanic stillness and the cry of the cuckoo Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides or it may enter again into Vyasa's A void and dreadful forest ringing with the crickets' cry Vanam ...
... "arrives"; those most germane to the matter are the lion, tiger, elephant, dog, wolf, cat, bull & cow, bear, fox, ass, horse, bee, ant, butterfly, fish, eagle (also kite, hawk & vulture), songbird, crow & cuckoo etc. In all these human egos readily incarnate & the human type absorbs them all. The first Manu takes all these totems & applies them to the general type of the Asura, driving at the evolution of ...
... inevitable, absolute and revealing word. This too is sometimes a magical transformation of the adequate manner, as in Wordsworth's A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In springtime from the cuckoo bird Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides— sometimes of the richer or more dynamic imaged style, Flowers laugh before thee in their beds And fragrance in thy footing ...
... Rose Aylmer,—you can see there how emotion itself can gain by a spare austerity in self-expression. But it is doubtful whether all these kinds—Wordsworth's lyrics, for example, the "Daffodils", the "Cuckoo"—can be classed as austere. On the other hand there can be a very real spirit and power of underlying austerity behind a considerable wealth and richness of expression. Arnold in one of his poems gives ...
... Rishi; Naga, for the snake-gods who inhabit the nether-world; Uswuttha, for the sacred fig-tree; chompuc (but this has been made familiar by Shelley's exquisite lyric); coil or Kokil, for the Indian cuckoo; and names like Dhurma (Law, Religion, Rule of Nature) and Critanta, the ender, for Yama, the Indian Hades. These, I think, are not more than a fairly patient reader may bear with. Mythological allusions ...
... itself, listening perhaps to its memories of old, unhappy, far-off things And battles long ago or feeling and hearing, it may be said, the vast oceanic stillness and the cry of the cuckoo Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides or it may enter again into Vyasa's A void and dreadful forest ringing with the crickets' cry Page 143 ...
... exactly in the popular stream, to the charge of being tradition-bound, old-fashioned or remote from life. He would be vulnerable only if he were flabbily imitative or derivative, or immured in cloud-cuckoo fantasy, not if he took past forms and bent them to his own uses, chose past themes and infused them with a new significant vitality driving towards things to come, least of all if he plunged to bedrock ...
... bird-life in Tennyson's ...let the wild Lean-headed eagles yelp alone... Then there is another glimpse of bird-life, happily haunting as opposed to fearsomely remote — Housman's The cuckoo shouts all day at nothing In leafy dells, alone. We get the sense of a deeply felt hollowness even in the richest human experience and the vibrant hint of a religious fulfilment carrying us ...
... 100 100 100 100 100 80 70 years " " " " " " " " Pigeon Gull Crane Cuckoo Ostrich Cock Canary Blackbird Nightingale 40-50 40-50 40-50 32 30 15 15 13 8 years " " " ...
... Joyous, I lay down on my bed; The dress had fallen from my limbs, I slept with rumours overhead. The peacocks in the treetops high Between their gorgeous dances shrilled, The cuckoo cried exultantly, The frogs were clamorous in the field; And ever with insistent chime The bird of rumour shrieking fled Amidst the rain, at such a time A vision stood beside my bed ...
... narratives are attractive in themselves. He has made them more beautiful and decorative by clothing them in the most graceful words of subtle significance. The mango buds fall in showers, The cuckoo sings. Intoxicated is the night, Drunk with moonlight. "Who are you that come to me, O compassionate one?" Asks the woman. The mendicant replies: "O Vasavadutta, the time is ripe ...
... Complaint", "Love in Sorrow","The Island Grave", "Estelle", "Radha's Complaint in Absence" (translation), "Radha's Appeal" (translation),"Bunkim Chandra Chatterji", "Madhusudan Dutt", "To the Cuckoo", "Envoi". Included in Collected Poems and Plays (See 13). In SABCL the four translations noted above are included in Volume 8: the first two appear without title as numbers I and ...
... not numbered half the brilliant birds In one green forest, nor am familiar grown With sunrise and the progress of the eves, Nor have with plaintive cries of birds made friends, Cuckoo and rainlark and love-speak-to-me. 27 As yet unreconciled to the event, she is borne away to "some distant greenness", and night descends upon Rum and his soul is now synonymous with the "great ...
... Collected Poems Bankim Chandra Chatterji How hast thou lost, O month of honey and flowers, The voice that was thy soul! Creative showers, The cuckoo's daylong cry and moan of bees, Zephyrs and streams and softly-blossoming trees And murmuring laughter and heart-easing tears And tender thoughts and great and the compeers Of lily and jasmine and ...
... really understand very well.” 16 The accumulating data of the fossil record may have contributed to his increasingly dark view about the meaning of the whole shebang, of human life no less than of a cuckoo’s egg and the countless beings that have peopled and are peopling our planet. Gould’s view of the evolution and the place of humanity in it is the logical one when all values have evaporated. Still ...
... and others. The first poem I wrote in English (in April, 1934) was a literal translation of a Bengali poem of mine: The sorrow of Autumn woos the absent Spring; Chill winter hushes the cuckoo's vibrant grove; To the Lord of vernal sweetness now I sing: "Let streams of friendship swell to seas of love." In his own handwriting he wrote on the margin: "That is all right but ...
... competition to be near him and touch him. 7. Some of them sounded their flutes, some blew their horns; still Page 45 others hummed in tune with the bees; and some more cooed with the cuckoos (the Kokilas) — thus did they engage themselves in play. 8. Some ran pursuing the shadows of flying birds; some walked with swans imitating their elegant tread; some mimicked the pose of cranes; some ...
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