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    Indian Love Poetry
    Indian Love Poetry
    Indian Love Poetry
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    Indian Love Poetry

    By Rabindranath Tagore and Jaluluddin Rumi

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    Love is a universal feeling but a few lines of musings from a poet - assembled words perhaps softly spoken - can express a romance or desire that if we don't yet have we'd probably like to. And so poets have burnished their dreams throughout history and across the globe, in every culture past and present. For most of us Indian Love Poetry tends to be the erotic and explicit Kama Sutra and The Perfumed Garden. Or the epic adventures in rather grander volumes such as The Epic Of Gilamesh or the Mahabrarata. But this Indian Love Poetry explores an altogether softer, gentler more soulful side. Many of the poems you will hear are by writers now forgotten or obscure but whose words speak with a clarity and beauty that belies the fact thy were written and translated, in some cases, many centuries ago from Sanskrit and Tamil and later Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Bengali. This selection includes such famed poets as Tagore and Rumi who carefully document observed facets and flakes of love. Men speak about their love and longing for a woman and, more unusually for its time, women speak of their love and longing for men. It's a special and unique compilation and whilst new and different is something we can still share and understand. Many of these poems are also available on our audiobook version at iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateSep 24, 2013
    ISBN9781780005089
    Indian Love Poetry
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    Rabindranath Tagore

    Rabindranath Tagore was born in May 1861. He was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He became Asia's first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works included numerous novels, short-stories, collection of songs, dance-drama, political and personal essays. Some prominent examples are Gitanjali (Song Offerings) , Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World). He died on 7th August 1941.

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      Wonderful and beautiful poems. I wish there were more books like this. The way different cultures write their poetry can be very distinct. Indian poems are very beautiful.

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    Indian Love Poetry - Rabindranath Tagore

    Indian Love Poetry

    Poetry is a fascinating use of language.  With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries.  In this volume we look to the East series and the wonders of India.  Through the eyes and minds of its most gifted poets to bring you a poetic guide to the charms of love.  

    Love is a universal feeling but a few lines of musings from a poet – assembled words perhaps softly spoken - can express a romance or desire that if we don’t yet have we’d probably like to.  And so poets have burnished their dreams throughout history and across the globe, in every culture past and present. 

    For most of us Indian Love Poetry tends to be the erotic and explicit Kama Sutra and The Perfumed Garden.   Or the epic adventures in rather grander volumes such as The Epic Of Gilamesh or the Mahabararata. 

    But this Indian Love Poetry explores an altogether softer, gentler more soulful side. 

    Many of the poems you will hear are by writers now forgotten or obscure but whose words speak with a clarity and beauty that belies the fact they were written and translated, in some cases, many centuries ago from Sanskrit and Tamil and then later Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Bengali.   This selection includes such famed poets as Tagore and Rumi who carefully document observed facets and flakes of love.   Men speak about their love and longing for a woman and more unusually for its time, women speak of their love and longing for men.   It’s a special and unique compilation and whilst new and different is something we can still share and understand.

    Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry.  Many samples are at our youtube channel   http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee   The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.  Among the readers are Shyama Perera and Ghizela Rowe

    Index Of Poems

    Speak to Me My Love

    My Desire

    Music Of Love

    Song of Ramesram

    The Kiss

    The Rao of Ilore 

    Song of Songs Extract 1 

    The Bride

    The First Wife

    Song of Songs Extract 2   

    Listen Beloved

    Song of Jasoda

    Song of Songs Extract 3   

    Song of Songs Extract 4 

    The Rice Boat 

    Lament of Yasmini 

    The Gardener 

    The Net of Memory 

    Unforgotten Lover 

    Yasin Khan 

    On the Nature of Love

    Ashore 

    Lovers Gifts 1 

    Written In Cananore

    Lovers Gifts 2

    The Tom Toms

    Lalji My Desire

    Though in My Firmament 

    The Flame of Love 

    Song Of The Peri 

    Shivratri

    Unending Love

    Speak To Me, My Love!

    Speak to me, my love! Tell me in words what you sang.

    The night is dark. The stars are lost in clouds.

    The wind is sighing through the leaves.

    I will let loose my hair.

    My blue cloak will cling round me like the night.

    I will clasp your head to my bosom;

    And there in the sweet loneliness murmur on your heart.

    I will shut my eyes and listen.

    I will not look in

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