Excerpt: ...hour To drift on a sea-going breeze. Ay, the hands have marvellous skill To create us curious things, - Baubles, playthings, weapons to kill, - But-I would we had chosen wings! Song of the Parao (Camping-ground) Heart, my heart, thou hast found thy home! From gloom and sorrow thou hast come forth, Thou who wast foolish, and sought to roam 'Neath the cruel stars of the frozen North. Thou hast returned to thy dear delights; The golden glow of the quivering days, The silver silence of tropical nights, No more to ...
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Excerpt: ...hour To drift on a sea-going breeze. Ay, the hands have marvellous skill To create us curious things, - Baubles, playthings, weapons to kill, - But-I would we had chosen wings! Song of the Parao (Camping-ground) Heart, my heart, thou hast found thy home! From gloom and sorrow thou hast come forth, Thou who wast foolish, and sought to roam 'Neath the cruel stars of the frozen North. Thou hast returned to thy dear delights; The golden glow of the quivering days, The silver silence of tropical nights, No more to wander in alien ways. Here, each star is a well-loved friend; To me and my heart at the journey's end. These are my people, and this my land, I hear the pulse of her secret soul. This is the life that I understand, Savage and simple and sane and whole. Washed in the light of a clear fierce sun, - Heart, my heart, the journey is done. See! the painted piece of the skies, Where the rose-hued opal of sunset lies. Hear the passionate Koel calling From coral trees, where the dusk is falling. See my people, slight limbed and tall. The maiden's bosom they scorn to cover: The breasts that shall call and enthral her lover, Things of beauty, are free to all. Free to the eyes, that think no shame That a girl should bloom like a forest flower. Who hold that Love is a sacred flame, - Outward beauty a God-like dower. Who further regard it as no disgrace If loveliness lessen to serve the race, Nor point the finger of jesting scorn At her who carries the child unborn. Ah, my heart, but we wandered far From the light of the slanting fourfold Star! Oh, palm-leaf thatch, where the melon thrives Beneath the shade of the tamarind tree, Thou coverest tranquil, graceful lives, That want so...
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Add this copy of Last Poems Translations From the Book of Indian Love By to cart. $4.61, good condition, Sold by Redux Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Wyoming, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1924 by Dodd, Mead and Company.
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FAIR. JACKET: TORN DJ. 5.25X7.25. Gilt on cover and spine, dj torn and creased to edges, princeton antiques book plate on inside of front cover, previous owners signiture on front end paper, pages yellowing _PAB_
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Very Good in Good jacket. 12mo-over 6¾-7¾" tall. 1st Printing. First printing (no additional printings listed). Light wear to the extremities. The gilt lettering is slightly tarnished. Previous owners' names are written on the front endpapers. Otherwise fine. The dust jacket is edgeworn, with some loss at the top edge and the spine tail. Short tear along the front joint. Faint dampstains and soiling to the rear panel. In Brodart archival dust jacket protector.
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