Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jul 28, 2025

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Authors: Gwendoline Goodwin In Year : 1927

Book Language: English

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Preface
An Invocation
The Secrets of the Self
Worship
Beyond the Verge of Time—Steps
Ego—Fire
The Artist
Imagery
Transience—O Long Black Hair—Revelation
“Spring that in my courtyard”—“This day will pass”
Urvasi
Open Thou Thy Door of Mercy
The Dancer
Acknowledgment
Remembrance—The Visible
In the Light
Call and Bring Her
Basanta Panchami
A Woman’s Beauty
An Evening on the Lagoon—At the Temple
Raksha Bandhan
Longings—Thoughts
The Lovers
A Blue Dream
Tulip
Return to Khairpur—India: Entertaining Twilight
Roshanara
In Praise of Henna
Imperial Delhi
Dirge
Spring—Cradle-song
June Sunset
Bunkim Chandra Chatterji
A Rose of Women—The Island Grave
Invitation
A Child’s Imagination
Evening—The Sea at Night—Lachhi
Azmē
Awake, my Friend
Marriage Song
Mystic Love Song from “Thirty Indian Songs"
The Punjab Autumn: The Season of the Cooling Dew
Râjhans (The Prince of Swans)
Later Lyrics: Poplar, Beech, and Weeping Willow
Orphic Mysteries: The Yellow Butterfly
Myvanwy
Kismet
Tansen
“The high ambition of the drop of rain”
“How difficult is the thorny way of strife”
“Thy beauty flashes like a sword”
“I shall not try to flee the sword of death”
Voice in the Air
“All this is rhythm”
“Friend, dwell thou within”—“Thou art the rose”
“Snow-blossoms, snow-blossoms”
“The rose of eternity”
“The blue of Indra”
“The shadow of a flying bird”
Love’s Samādhi—A Cradle Song
The Way of Poverty
The Last Prayer—Union with Christ
Peace

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.