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Lolita : Lalita (1) an apsarā of Swarga; (2) a companion of Radha in Vrindāvana.

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... Gertrude , Magdalen, Margaret, and Rosalys — or Sri Aurobindo's recital of a yet longer liquidity of nomenclature: Menaca, Misracayshie, Mullica, Rambha, Nelabha, Shela, Nolinie, Lolita, Lavonya and Tillottama... Of course, Rossetti is speaking of the "five handmaidens" of "Lady Mary" in the heavenly groves and Sri Aurobindo is listing the apsara-companions of the peerless Urvasie ...

Amal Kiran   >   Books   >   Other-Works   >   Talks on Poetry
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... full Of morning and divine faces bent back For the imperious kisses of the wind. So danced they numberless as dew-drops gleam, Ménaca, Misracayshie, Mullica, Rumbha, Nelabha, Shela, Nolinie, Lolita, Lavonya and Tilôttama,— Many delightful names; among them she. And seeing her Pururavus the king Shuddered as of felicity afraid, And all the wide heart of Pururavus Moved like the sea—when with ...

Sri Aurobindo   >   Books   >   CWSA   >   Collected Poems
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... peerless Urvasie, dancer in the courts of Indra, is at a yet longer liquidity of proper-nouned loveliness: Menaca, Misracayshie, Mullica, Page 242 Rambha, Nelabha, Shela, Nolinie, Lolita, Lavonya and Tillottama... It is possible to be intoxicated with such Melopoeia, just as Marcel Proust could never tire of that enchantment from Racine: La fille de Minos et de Pasiphaë ...

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... seeks his kisses, Liberal of nectar he yearns down above her. In search of the Devine Lover Page 182 Selected poems of Horu Thakur Look, Lolita, the stream one loves so And water brings each day! But what is this strange light that moves so, In Jamouna today? What is it shining, heaving, glimmering, Is it a flower ...

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... yet the result is exquisitely exotic poetry:   Page 106 So danced they numberless as dew-drops gleam, Menaca, Misracayshie, Mullica, Rumbha, Nelabha, Shela, Nolinie, Lolita, Lavonya and Tilottama, - Many delightful names.... 20 Again, doesn't an expanded simile like the following reproduce, and more than reproduce, the appositeness as well as exuberance of ...