Misracayshie : an apsarā.
... fivefold symphony of names: Page 318 Cecily, 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 ...
... them and their feet A restless loveliness and glad eyes 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 ...
... Sri Aurobindo's recital of the list of Apsara-companions of the 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 ...
... satisfying. Here we have no more than a catalogue of names, and 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 ...
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