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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: INDIA Matches Found: 500 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MUNICIPAL REPORT; DEDICATION TO 'THE SEVEN SEAS', by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cities are full of pride Last Line: And mine I hold at her hands! Variant Title(s): To The City Of Bombay Subject(s): Bombay, India; Cities; Urban Life A REQUISITION TO THE QUEEN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most august! Empress of india, and of great britain the queen Last Line: That lives in dundee. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; India; Leadership; Lectures; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking A ROMANCE OF THE GANGES, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven maidens 'neath the midnight Last Line: The river floweth on. Subject(s): Ganges River, India; Love A SEASIDE INCIDENT, by MARC EUGENE COOK Poem Text First Line: Why, bob, you dear old fellow' Last Line: "is the one I married last year." Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Vandyke Subject(s): Egypt; India; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips A SUMMARY HISTORY OF LORD CLIVE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: About a hundred and fifty years ago Last Line: But the greatest of them all was robert clive. Subject(s): Biography; Clive, Robert, Baron (1725-1774); History; India; Biographers; Historians ABSENT, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Bells do not ring %when our names are called Last Line: If you have us here %to keep yourselves separate Subject(s): Family Life - India AFTER DEATH: A LANDSCAPE, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fire on the side, wind on the other Last Line: Forgiveness. The string lifts me. I fly Subject(s): India AJANTA, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: When we went to the caves at ajanta, the bus Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves AJANTA: 1. THE JOURNEY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Came in my full youth to the midnight cave Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves; Caverns AJANTA: 1. THE JOURNEY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Came in my full youth to the midnight cave Last Line: This cave where the myth enters the heart again Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves AJANTA: 2. THE CAVE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Space to the mind, the painted cave of dream Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves; Caverns AJANTA: 2. THE CAVE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Space to the mind, the painted cave of dream Last Line: Great sensual shoulders in the web of time Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves AJANTA: 3. LES TENDRESSES BESTIALES, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A procession of caresses alters the ancient sky Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves; Caverns AJANTA: 3. LES TENDRESSES BESTIALES, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A procession of caresses alters the ancient sky Last Line: I am plunged deep. Must find the midnight cave Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves AJANTA: 4. BLACK BLOOD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A habit leading to murder, smoky laughter Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves; Caverns AJANTA: 4. BLACK BLOOD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A habit leading to murder, smoky laughter Last Line: Try to live as if there were a god Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves AJANTA: 5. THE BROKEN WORLD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Came to ajanta cave, the painted space of the breast Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves; Caverns AJANTA: 5. THE BROKEN WORLD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Came to ajanta cave, the painted space of the breast Last Line: The journey, and the struggles of the moon Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves ALEX IN HINDUSTAN, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: Talmudic men, you'd call them -- Last Line: Return, return from the dead Subject(s): India ALL IN MY HEAD, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother cried a lot, nights. I would wake and her muted Last Line: Sobbed and sobbed till the whole bed shook, I didn't wake %up at all Subject(s): India ALLEY OF FLOWERS, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the hot din of red trams at noon Last Line: Like petals. Like the sound of wings. Like %the breath of the dead, a blessing Subject(s): India AMIR KHAN, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Brightly o'er spire, and dome, and tower Last Line: Too full to weep -- too blest to sigh! Subject(s): Kashmir, India; Plane Trees; Cashmere, India; Sycamores AN INDIAN FLAG, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The golden gates were opening Last Line: The greatest and the best. Subject(s): Christianity; India; Missionaries & Missions AN ORIENTAL APOLOGUE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in india, upon a time Last Line: Forever for the people's good should spin. Subject(s): India ANCESTOR, ANCESTOR, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cry to you papa who Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; India; Travel; Journeys; Trips ANCESTOR, ANCESTOR, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cry to you papa who Last Line: But came in spurt in me Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; India; Travel ANNIVERSARY OF A DROWNING, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: My father has dived %to the floor of the pond Last Line: His held breath %between words, %and my need to let go Subject(s): Family Life - India ARJUN, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wall. Rock. Field. Sky. %from the balcony of a palace that does not belong to Last Line: As lightning %into your innocent future Subject(s): India ARRANGED MARRIAGE, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The night is airless-still, as Last Line: That I will learn so well, %to look for the first time into %your husband's opaque eyes Subject(s): India ARROGANT, SPURRING YOUR HIGH-STRUNG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Pillaged the dowry and sold her Subject(s): Narmada River, India ARS FEMINA, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: Widowhood breeds a kind of living death Last Line: She is one of them now, all drone and sting Subject(s): India ARS POETICA, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: After four years %of teaching our checks Last Line: Nods its head %in praise of poetry Subject(s): Family Life - India AS CHILDREN WE CRAVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: So stained our clan Subject(s): Narmada River, India AT AN IOWA CITY BAR, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: The way %he sits talking about zen Last Line: Almost makes me believe %in the mystic orient Subject(s): Family Life - India AT BENARES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saintly yogi hari-hara-baba Last Line: Dalwood with his impure excrement Subject(s): Benares, India; Buddhism AT DELHI GATE, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A blind girl grinding corn Last Line: "I'll live and toil for thee." Subject(s): Delhi, India AT FORTY, by ATTIPAT KRISHNASWAMI RAMANUJAN Poem Source First Line: Our jatti, palace wrestler of mysore Last Line: Once jatti, wrestler, our teacher %at the gymn Subject(s): India; Middle Age; Wrestling And Wrestlers AT MUKTINATH, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When they finally found us Last Line: Pulsing electric and blue %shining as though the day would never die Subject(s): India AT RANGANATHITHU BIRD SANCTUARY, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: Meandering in slow circles, our boat rounds the isles Last Line: From death, we are forever blinded by this light Subject(s): India AT THE KABINI RIVER, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: Each day is a dimple on the wind Last Line: Which float like dreams risen %silently to meet us Subject(s): India AT THE SATI TEMPLE, BIKANER, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is not yet up. In early light Last Line: Somewhere in the blind sand, %a peacock's cry, harsh, cut-off, %for its mate or for rain Subject(s): India AT THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC AND ...., by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maestro plays a raga at dusk Subject(s): India; Music & Musicians AT THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC AND ...., by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maestro plays a raga at dusk Last Line: We're miserable. Isn't god great? Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians BABIES: 2, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As in the old tales, they are found at dawn. Before the buses start running Last Line: That when I wake I will carry inside my buttoned-up body the feel of their %tugging mouth Variant Title(s): The Babies: I Subject(s): India BABIES: I, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Again last night as we slept Last Line: Children held up %their silent scarred hands Variant Title(s): The Babies Subject(s): India BANDED KRAIT, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: Thin as a licorice whip Last Line: To each of us: let her go Subject(s): India BANGALORE LULLABY, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: The house is dark Last Line: Of night, and disappears Subject(s): India BANYAN, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: The banyan toils Last Line: He toils Subject(s): India; Trees BATHERS, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They raise into evening their arms Last Line: Skull, the faint milk-blue of bones %waiting beneath the heedless shining flesh Subject(s): India BEE-KEEPER DISCUSSES HIS CHARGES, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bees, as you see, are large but not Last Line: I'm keeper of the fish Subject(s): India BENARES, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I pray for the sad souls that pray Last Line: And will flow with forgiveness forever. Subject(s): India; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims BENGAL NIGHT, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When foxes sing out behind Last Line: The world. In the wheeling %sky, star-studded bats hang %motionless on great leather wings Subject(s): India BISHOP OF MYSORE, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: At dusk we follow the empty, twisting road that Last Line: Relaxing his face. Each small world transforms itself Subject(s): India BLACK SWOLLEN CLOUDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Grief surges through Subject(s): Narmada River, India BLACKOUT, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All that year our windows %were crusted with thick inky paper Last Line: Them out, like a long thread of blood, all tangled up, %the stories of our deaths Subject(s): India BLACKOUT, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since our lights were extinguished Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): India - Pakistan (relations) BOARDING: 1. MUSSOORIE, UTTAR PRADESH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the himalayas, I ran faster than any girl Last Line: Then the mountain soldiers drove us up Subject(s): Railroads; Schools; Travel; India; Railways; Trains; Students; Journeys; Trips BOARDING: 2. HOLIDAYS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In maths, geeta's long black plait Last Line: When jesus was born, it was quiet like this Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Schools; India; Nativity, The; Students BOARDING: 3. THE DIVORCE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We get measured and weighted in the spring Last Line: And it is never like that again, lustrous silk, shaking Subject(s): Farewell; Mothers & Daughters; India; Parting BOARDING: 4. INDEPENDENCE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am ten, the british quit Last Line: Foggy weather, shakespeare. We made a trade Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Independence; Libraries & Librarians; India; English History BOARDING: 5. THE DADAR SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They ask me, what are shadows? Last Line: A girl, I have lost my way Variant Title(s): The Dadar School For The Blind Subject(s): Blindness; Schools; Inida; English In India; Visually Handicapped BOARDING: 6. GRADUATION, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I notice how lush it is since I came when doorways Last Line: Phoned, her parents had already traded beauty for his land Subject(s): Commencement; Schools; India; Graduation; Students BOMBAY, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here nothing seems new: the rising Last Line: In the wake of an empress now slut Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Bombay, India; Cities; Poverty BOYCHILD, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You lie in your grandmother's lap Last Line: I crush them in my fists and wish you death Subject(s): India BRAIDS SCATTERED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: She mounts her %beloved Subject(s): Narmada River, India BRIDES COME TO YUBA CITY, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is hot and yellow, filled Last Line: We cannot recognize a single face Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; India; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BURNING BRIDE: 1, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning was fire Last Line: His breath a whispered fire. And my sari %spilled on the floor that volcano night %redgashed, a tide Subject(s): India BURNING BRIDE: 2, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The day after the wedding Last Line: But though they prayed, %though we all prayed, %I did not die Subject(s): India BURNING BRIDE: 3, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw them bring the kerosene last night Last Line: And the quick blue hiss of fire %leaping in a night turned sudden red? Subject(s): India BY THE NUMBERS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What number do you start with Last Line: Hope that we may count on them Subject(s): Godel, Kurt (1906-1978); India; Mathematics; Rexroth, Kenneth (1905-1982) CALAMITY CAME TO OUR REGION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: To live without sorrow Subject(s): Narmada River, India CALCUTTA, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cow and man loll about Last Line: And slums in flood Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Calcutta, India; Poverty CAMP FOLLOWER'S SONG, GOMAL RIVER, by ADELE FLORENCE CORY NICOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We have left gul kach behind us Last Line: The man who is left behind! Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, Laurence Subject(s): India CAMPUS POET, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Once again, ladies and gentlemen, %I've great pleasure in presenting myself Last Line: Whose not visiting has made my poetry prosperous %my tenure talked about Subject(s): Family Life - India CANTO GENERAL, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians CATCH HOLD OF HER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Drive her %into the night Subject(s): Narmada River, India CHILDHOOD, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was a place where apples sprouted teeth Last Line: If she opened the bloated sack of her body %and invited you in Subject(s): India CHILDREN, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Let me say this love, %we've passed into units Last Line: For you see our weighted sighs, %in their young bodies %holding wise Subject(s): Family Life - India CHILDREN SKINNY AS CORPSES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: This no one could take Subject(s): Narmada River, India CHINAMAN'S HAT, NORTH SHORE, OAHU, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: It's mr. Chang alright, %bent so deep Last Line: With grandchildren he can scarcely recognize %deep in the folds of his hatless mortality Subject(s): Family Life - India CHRISTMAS IN INDIA, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dim dawn behind the tamarisks - they sky is saffron-yellow Last Line: Past. Subject(s): Christmas; India; Nativity, The COMMERCIAL STREET, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: Lives up to its name: its gallery of shops Last Line: Which would sooner profit from commerce with spirit Subject(s): India CONFEDERATE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He doesn't look like a citadel cadet Variant Title(s): No Bumper Sticker Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; India CONFEDERATE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He doesn't look like a citadel cadet Last Line: On my face never turned me porcelain Variant Title(s): No Bumper Sticke Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; India CONFUSION, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: This is confusion translated %from one part of the head to another Last Line: You shouldn't answer any questions Subject(s): Family Life - India COOL THICKETS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: How we washed %in it afterwards Subject(s): Narmada River, India COSSIMBAZAR, by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come fleetly, come fleetly, my hookabadar Last Line: Join in the chorus, my hookabadar. Subject(s): India; Jungles; Music & Musicians; Nonsense COURTESAN SPEAKS TO HER LOVER, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: I'm seeing you at last Last Line: The answer to my prayers Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians COURTESAN TO A MESSENGER, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: You want to know, my graceful friend Last Line: Just go bring that muvva gopala to me Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians COURTESAN TO A MESSENGER, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: Why does he send an embassy, standing right in front of me Last Line: But why send an embassy Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians COURTESAN TO A YOUNG CUSTOMER, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: You are handsome, aren't you Last Line: Handsome, aren't you Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians COURTESAN TO HER FRIEND, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: Let him go as he pleases Last Line: Let him go as he pleases Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians COURTESAN TO HER FRIEND, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: It's so late Last Line: Who has ruled in my bed %it's so late Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians COURTESAN TO HER GIRLFRIEND, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: Fate that brought us together Last Line: So soon has put us apart Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians COURTESAN TO HER LOVER, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: Why have you come here? Go away Last Line: Go away, her house is not here Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians COURTESAN TO HER LOVER, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: Pour gold as high as I can stand, I still won't sleep with you Last Line: Pour gold as high as I stand Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians COURTESAN TO HER LOVER, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: Why are you so taken? Is she really Last Line: Why are you so taken Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians COURTESAN TO HER LOVER, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: Who was that woman sleeping Last Line: Who was that woman Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians COURTESAN TO HER MESSENGER, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: Today is a good day. Let him come like a prince Last Line: Let him come like a prince Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians COURTESAN TO THE MESSENGER, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: Don't go on chattering, just go away Last Line: Just go away Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians CROWS WHEEL AND FLY UP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: They saw where the girl %was deflowered Subject(s): Narmada River, India CUSTOMER TO A COURTESAN, by SARANGAPANI Poem Source First Line: Is there any rule Last Line: There's always your sister Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians CUTTING THE SUN, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun-face looms over me, gigantic-hot, smelling Last Line: I see %flowers, flowers, flowers Subject(s): India DARK SMOKING HEAVENS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Death for a refuge Subject(s): Narmada River, India DARKNESS DISSOLVING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Could death be worse? Subject(s): Narmada River, India DAY IS GONE CHILD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Let us sleep Subject(s): Narmada River, India DEDICATION OF A POEM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sweet, on the daisies of your english grave" Last Line: "that he who brings them lays his heart, too, here" Subject(s): Graves;india; Tombs;tombstones DHARMA, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: Shortly after dawn they arrive: first, sullen ramiza Last Line: A measure of devotion to allah's invisible rewards Subject(s): India DIFFICULT JOURNEY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: From its mane Subject(s): Narmada River, India DIONYSOS IN INDIA (OPENING FRAGMENT OF A LYRICAL DRAMA), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Verge of an upland glade among the himalayas Last Line: They come! They come! . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; India; Mythology DISTASTEFUL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Towards her bed Subject(s): Narmada River, India DON'T GO DOWN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Don't please them Subject(s): Narmada River, India DOWN IN THE HOLLOW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: By thoughts from a %previous life? Subject(s): Narmada River, India DREAM OF THE EVIL SERVANT, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We kept war in the kitchen Last Line: I am wretched. Be my mother. Be my maid Subject(s): Dreams; India; Nightmares DREAM OF THE EVIL SERVANT, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We kept war in the kitchen Last Line: I am wretched. Be my mother. Be my maid Subject(s): Dreams; India DREAMERS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: It's an easy drift into their domain Last Line: Next to the nightlamp even now shining %through this starlight Subject(s): Family Life - India DRIVE, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our first evening in italy and we're careening down via appia antica in Last Line: Naked in chains, behind the chariots the wild caged bears? Yes, yes, I whisper back Subject(s): India DUG UNDER EARTH'S CRUST FOR DRUGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Never obtained a single pierced %cowrie shell Subject(s): Narmada River, India DURGA BATIK, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is fitting Last Line: Color of your first memory, color also %of what over and over %you have forgotten Subject(s): India DUSTING HER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: These are her own %lover's cinders Subject(s): Narmada River, India EIGHT ON JANARDANA OF KANDUKURU, by KANDUKURI RUDRAKAVI Poem Source First Line: You've come, haven't you Last Line: You crusher of demons %janardana of kandukuru Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians ELEGY IN A SNOWSTORM, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: There are those who believe Last Line: And astonish us with your voice Subject(s): India EPITAPH ON LORD METCALFE, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near this stone is laid Last Line: With which his memory is cherished by his family. Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron Subject(s): India; Metcalfe, Charles Theophlius (1785-1846) EPITAPH ON SIR BENJAMIN HEALTH MALKIN, AT CALCUTTA, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This monument / is sacred memory Last Line: And by the benevolence of his heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron Subject(s): India; Malkin, Benjamin Heath (1797-1837) EVEN A SICK OLD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Takes lifetimes of %merit Subject(s): Narmada River, India EYES CLOSED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: The loose bangles Subject(s): Narmada River, India FABLE OF A THREE YEAR OLD, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: A hole is something you make to grow Last Line: Cuz I don't tell him %where I hid his baseball bat Subject(s): Family Life - India FABLE OF HEARTS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Our daddy isn't tall, %our mom is taller Last Line: We can hide in it %until they find us Subject(s): Family Life - India FABLE OF THE COARSE ROSE, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: The path of the rose was uncharted Last Line: And buried next to frankenstein Subject(s): Family Life - India FABLE OF THE TALKER, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: He was born while the oracles %withered in their tongues Last Line: When he heard that, he laughed, %wrapped himself in silence and set a trap Subject(s): Family Life - India FACTS OF LIFE, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: My father, teetotaler, vegetarian, %took two baths a day Last Line: Come to celebrate shiva's victory %over one demon or another Subject(s): Family Life - India FAKIR, by RICHARD OWEN CAMBRIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: A fakir a religious well known in the east Last Line: All tortured by choice with the invisible nail Subject(s): India; Travel FALL OF EIFFEL TOWER, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: This is an ad which illustrates %how to bring over there over here Last Line: Hello, am I reaching someone there Subject(s): Family Life - India FAMILY PHOTO IN BLACK AND WHITE, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The photographer has crowded us together Last Line: Till discs like blind suns %dance across my eyes, %till the children in the picture %are finally fac Subject(s): India FICTIONS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Mixing words %on this side of the room Last Line: For the evening news %wrapped heavily in blankets Subject(s): Family Life - India FIRST TIME, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You were four then and impeded Last Line: That gathers itself on his blunted nail %and falls like a star Subject(s): India FLYING SWAMI, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: His feet are firmly planted in thin air Last Line: And that this work he's doing lightens all our steps Subject(s): India FOR A STONE GIRL AT SANCHI, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half asleep on the cold grass Subject(s): India; Statues FORBIDDEN THEY SAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: With her first %menstrual blood Subject(s): Narmada River, India FOUNDING OF YUBA CITY, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let us suppose it a california day Last Line: Grind over the human heart, they %smiled in their sleep Subject(s): India FREDERICA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O leave berlin, with its thick-lying sand Last Line: Sing in the golden sunny halls above. Subject(s): India; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs FRIEND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Daybreak comes %quickly Subject(s): Narmada River, India FRIENDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Have its roots cut? Subject(s): Narmada River, India GANDHI, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Source First Line: Not with a clamor of golden deeds Subject(s): Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869-1948); India GANGES, by MARY MCGUIRE Poem Source First Line: I read not long ago, how all the tide Subject(s): Ganges River, India GARBA, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The nine sacred nights of navaratri Last Line: We leave behind %the men, a white blur, %like moonlight on empty bajra fields %seen from a speeding Subject(s): India GARLAND, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They had been married almost ten years when he said Last Line: Woman must have been collecting them for weeks--it was %madeof torn butterfly wings Subject(s): India GEOGRAPHY LESSON, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look, says sister seraphina, here is Last Line: Their distance, in light years, from the sun Subject(s): India GIFT, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are singing the wedding song Last Line: Calls my name. Mother, I clasp your gift %around my throat. See how well it fits, %each beautiful, b Subject(s): India GIRLFRIEND TO THE WOMAN, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: Woman: that varada loves you so Last Line: That varada, he loves you so Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians GIVE ME AN EDGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Went out to the night %and wept Subject(s): Narmada River, India GOD IS THE COW, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Yoke for beggar-cart and plough Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Begging And Beggars; India GOD OF PROGRESS, by ALICE GILL BENTON Poem Text First Line: The god of progress rides the wings of time Last Line: To offer at his shrine as he rides by? Subject(s): Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869-1948); Hammurapi (d. 1750 B.c.); India; Pasteur, Louis (1822-1895); Progress GOING HOME DAY, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This early december light that burns through fog Last Line: Wishing we were coming back Subject(s): India GOLDEN LABYRINTH, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: Nothing will grow here but poisonous plants Last Line: They can lead us all on invisible paths to light Subject(s): India GOURI MASHIMA, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From water country you came to a dry land Last Line: The jar was grainy-cool %against your mouth. You sipped %thesweet buttermilk all the way home Subject(s): India GRAIL, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Under my feet %in the subterranean Last Line: In a crowded market %after a sack of promises Subject(s): Family Life - India GRANDMOTHERS, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At first they are the flickerings Last Line: Feared, but your own lips, smiling %through sleep, whispering back, %it's all right Subject(s): India GRIEVE, BROTHER!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Now only legend Subject(s): Narmada River, India GUNGA DIN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You may talk o' gin and beer Last Line: You're a better man than I am, gunga din! Subject(s): Army Life; Courage; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Heroism; India; Loyalty; Drills & Minor Tactics; Valor; Bravery; British Empire; England - Empire; Heroes; Heroines HALDIGHAT OF NEW INDIA, by KAZI NAZRUL ISLAM Poem Source First Line: Balasore, on the bank of the river bura-balam Last Line: Balasore, on the banks of the river bura-balam, %the haldighat of new india Subject(s): India; Muslims HALF STUN'D I LOOK AROUND, by RONALD ROSS Poem Source Subject(s): India; Physicians HAMPER, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: It was old for it was there Last Line: Wandering over my shirtless body Subject(s): Family Life - India HANDLING FRUIT AT A CALCUTTA MARKET, by GEORGE KALAMARAS Poem Source First Line: You might have been here before Last Line: The size of a cat for the first time in your life Subject(s): Calcutta, India; Markets HARD RAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Through the night? Subject(s): Narmada River, India HAVE THE GODS CURSED ME?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: To itch madly for love Subject(s): Narmada River, India HAWAIIAN ZEN FLEAS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Miniscule bandits against spiritual sagacity Last Line: Give them your balls, %be above it all Subject(s): Family Life - India HE GETS UP FROM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Some unimaginably %far country Subject(s): Narmada River, India HE HAS GONE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Drums %at a hanging Subject(s): Narmada River, India HE SEARCHES THE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: On his wife's pale %breast Subject(s): Narmada River, India HEAR MY WORDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Fall on the hidden refuge %in the rushes Subject(s): Narmada River, India HEAVEN, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It will be indian, of course Last Line: When we signal they will sit down %beside our raised hands. Eyes lowered. %smiling. Forever silent Subject(s): India HER FRIENDS TEASE THE WOMAN IN LOVE, by TALLAPAKA ANNAMACARYA Poem Source First Line: These marks of black musk Last Line: What are they but letters of love Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians HINDU ASCETIC, by ALFRED COMYNS LYALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here as I sit by the jumna bank Variant Title(s): Studies At Delphi, 187 Subject(s): India; Travel HOLIDAY, by THOMAS FRANK BIGNOLD Poem Source First Line: Embalm, o muse, in an appropriate lay Last Line: And to that end as swiftly as I can %shall take this copy to the 'englishman' Subject(s): India; Travel HONEY, IT'S SUGARLESS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: She greets them with gum %& tourist chinese Last Line: Hobbling with american gum %stuck to their soles Subject(s): Family Life - India HOUSE, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wrinkled and shrunk, like father Last Line: In my cupped palm my childhood %pulses light. The cobra coils %like a ribbon of silk in my hair Subject(s): India HOW CAN I, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Lost this %way or that Subject(s): Narmada River, India HOW I BECAME A WRITER, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I peel off the sweaty dank of dawn bedclothes Last Line: The best, the happiest writer in the world Subject(s): India; Writing And Writers HOW MANY LOVES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Only dry stalks Subject(s): Narmada River, India HURDWAR, A PLACE OF HINDOO PILGRIMAGE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love the feeling which, in former days Last Line: And owns the true god in the false god's shrine Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Hinduism; India; Religion HUSBAND STILL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: At the windows Subject(s): Narmada River, India HYMNS OF THE BRAHMO SOMAJ, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mercy, o eternal one! Last Line: In the shade of his holy palms! Subject(s): India I HAVE BROUGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: To the gates %of her temple Subject(s): Narmada River, India I KNOW ALL THIS WHEN GIPSY FIDDLES CRY, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, gipsies, proud and stiff-necked and perverse Last Line: I know all this, when gipsy fiddles cry. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Gypsies; India; Gipsies I MADE LOVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: No one has trained me Subject(s): Narmada River, India I'M GOING TO BOMBAY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hair is brown, my eyes are blue Last Line: I'm going to bombay! Subject(s): Bombay, India; Travel; Journeys; Trips I, MANJU, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bed smells of crushed jasmine Last Line: Burns with the small animal sounds %from my mother's throat Subject(s): India I, MANJU: 1, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bed smells of crushed jasmine Last Line: We dance and dance %around the bed %as though the rainbow music %will never end Subject(s): India I, MANJU: 2, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the balcony, my waiting Last Line: I, manju. All the dark %burns with the small animal sounds %from my mother's throat Subject(s): India IDENTITIES, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: They bang seals %of embossed words on my passport Last Line: As to whose baggages they carry, %waking from body to body Subject(s): Family Life - India IF HE AND I, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Water in an earthenware %jug Subject(s): Narmada River, India IF I'M TO ANSWER, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: I do not speak of the new %in the uproarious chatter Last Line: One last time to see me %as the evening sets to a murmur Subject(s): Family Life - India IMPENETRABLE CLOUDS IN THE NIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Warm breasts against him Subject(s): Narmada River, India IN INDIA, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In india, the people form among the trees Last Line: Lay a revolver, knelt and, in good faith, %received his blessing and then shot him dead Subject(s): India IN THE HINGLAJ DESERT, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sand blows, course as camel Last Line: Arcs of jaw bone, the amaz- %ing white hollows of the %sockets, the slivered ribs fused %into wings Subject(s): India IN THE NILGIRIS, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: Outside masanagudi, the steely ridges peak Last Line: As the poacher oils his barrel Subject(s): India IN THEIR TORN SHIRTS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Our fathers in their torn shirts Last Line: They circle the porch to catch us in the red Subject(s): Family Life - India IN THOSE DAYS OUR VILLAGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: And I who've grown old %only listen Subject(s): Narmada River, India IN TIVANDRUM, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My next step in india that year Last Line: Gods and the first real people Subject(s): India INDEPENDENCE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am nine, the british quit Subject(s): India - British Rule INDIA, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: A land of lights and shadows intervolved Last Line: Shall win for christ this stronghold of the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): India; Religion; Theology INDIA, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Karen was still in india in 1980 Last Line: While peoople climb all over it, %singing and crying and scrubbing Subject(s): India INDIA, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the face of the eternal east Last Line: And orient heavens fill with fire of morn. Subject(s): India INDIA TO ENGLAND, by NIZAMAT JUNG Poem Source First Line: O england! In thine hour of need Subject(s): India; World War I INDIA'S GUEST (H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young heir to an old, old throne! Your wandering prow Last Line: Of all our wondrous fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Edward Viii, King Of England (1894-1972); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; India; British Empire; England - Empire INDIAN APRIL, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Allen ginsburg on a spring day you stopped Last Line: I hear you call: govinda, aaou, aoou! Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997); India; Family Life; Poetry & Poets INDIAN MOVIE, NEW JERSEY, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not like the white filmstars, all rib Last Line: Sacrifice, success, love and luck, %the america that was supposed to be Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; India; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations INDIAN WOMEN, by SHIV K. KUMAR Poem Source First Line: In this triple-baked continent Last Line: And are gone %beyond the hills Subject(s): India; Women INDIAN WORDS ON THE RADIO, by GEZA SZOCS Poem Source First Line: The indians won't leave us in the lurch Last Line: The indians won't leave anybody in the lurch. %the indians won't leave us in the lurch Subject(s): India INDIGO, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fields flame with it, endless, blue Last Line: A burning so beautiful you want it %to never end Subject(s): India INFIRMARY, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had seen it only in daylight, once Last Line: I was afraid for sister mary lourdes %and so I never did Subject(s): India INFIRMARY, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'd seen it only in daylight, once each month Last Line: And rising from it, those hands and mouths and breasts %that like grace had called me back Subject(s): India INSCRIPTION ON STATUE OF LORD WILLIAM BENTINCK AT CALCUTTA, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who, during seven years, ruled india with eminent Last Line: And paternal administration. Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron Subject(s): Bentinck, William Cavenish (1774-1839); India INTRODUCTION, by KAMALA DAS Poem Source First Line: I don't know politics but I know the names Last Line: Aches which are not yours. I too call myself I Subject(s): India; Women ISLANDS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: This gas station attendant Last Line: Seize the day fill up let go Subject(s): Family Life - India IT WAS LIKE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Her head and won't %look at me Subject(s): Narmada River, India IT'S SPRING IN THE HILLS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Death worth dying Subject(s): Narmada River, India JOURNEY, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the third day the land begins to turn Last Line: Gnarled and biting down %like the roots of the giant banyan %outside your father's house Subject(s): India KALIGHAT IN CALCUTTA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Calcutta, India; City & Town Life KANPUR, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That light-sleeping night Last Line: Without out knowledge Subject(s): India KARENGE YA MARENGE, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherein are words sublime or noble? What Subject(s): Patriotism; India; Liberty KARMA, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: Whomever you want to be, you can be Last Line: When the appalling strangers I meet are myself Subject(s): India KARMA AGAIN, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: You can hang your wishes out on a tree Last Line: Lives after us, tying itself to our souls Subject(s): India KODAIKANAL, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: Daughter, you've grown like a jungle vine Last Line: Leads you back to the empty plate you serve yourself Subject(s): India LALLA ROOKH: PARADISE AND THE PERI, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: One morn a peri at the gate Last Line: "the gates are pass'd, and heaven is won!" Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; India LALLA ROOKH: THE FIRE-WORSHIPPERS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tis moonlight over oman's sea! Last Line: They'll weep for the maiden who sleeps in this wave. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): India; Iran; Mythology; Persia LALLA ROOKH: THE LIGHT OF THE HARAM, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Who has not heard of the vale of cashmere Last Line: "remember, love, the feast of roses!" Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Harems; Kashmir, India; Cashmere, India LALLA ROOKH: THE VEILED PROPHET OF KHORASSAN, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In that delightful province of the sun Last Line: He and his zelica sleep side by side. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): India; Prophecy & Prophets; Travel; Turkmen; Journeys; Trips; Turkomans LEAH IN THE VALE OF TEARS, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: She hates the way men stare at her Last Line: The burdens each of us must bear Subject(s): India LEARNING TO DANCE, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A month before the senior social Last Line: To the future on our blood-beat Subject(s): India LEAVES FROM THE BACK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: See what you're %up to Subject(s): Narmada River, India LEAVING YUBA CITY, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She has been packing all night Last Line: They're true. Maybe she'll say, I love you Subject(s): India LEROY AT THE ZOO, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Unlike the other children Last Line: The red sun dries him. Gold poppies %call him his new name Subject(s): India LETTER FROM BANGALORE, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: The day blazes in a storm Last Line: Shining as it falls Subject(s): India LIFE ON EARTH IS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Years of the gods Subject(s): Narmada River, India LIVING GODDESS SPEAKS, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He had been there always, the old man Last Line: They swirl by slow, then fast, faster, %into the vortex of a river %dark, rushing, somewhere beyond Subject(s): India LIVING UNDERGROUND: DACCA 1971, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sky was a rusted lid Last Line: Are the dogs calling our names? Subject(s): India LOST LOVE WORDS, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the clock in the dark hall strikes two, I climb out of bed. You are in Last Line: Lost again, I will go back to bed. I will hold you. You will put your hands on %my belly and feel th Subject(s): India LOVE HAS GROWN CROOKED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Leaf on a twig Subject(s): Narmada River, India LOVE POEM, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: This piece of paper %I was saving is drunk Last Line: Having said %their ordinary goodbyes Subject(s): Family Life - India LOVE RITES, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: I cut my finger %slicing cucumbers Last Line: She's wooed by others, %would you be my valentine Subject(s): Family Life - India LOVE SONG OF RASHEED THE MAD CAP, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Praise to thee great allah, %for carving my beloved Last Line: To the rose tree the rose tree Subject(s): Family Life - India LOVE'S BOND HAS BROKEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Doesn't break into a hundred %shards Subject(s): Narmada River, India LOVERS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Meeting once again by rendezvous %in this motel Last Line: Always bones that never meet %the heir to our darkness Subject(s): Family Life - India LUSTING FOR LONI BALZER, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Holding %the questions %in the quiz I made up Last Line: To move your thighs at will %with all the answers Subject(s): Family Life - India MADAM TO A COURTESAN, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: Woman! He's none other Last Line: And he rules the worlds Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians MADAM TO A COURTESAN, by SARANGAPANI Poem Source First Line: He pays you in rupees of lead Last Line: He pays you in rupees of lead Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians MADAM TO A YOUNG COURTESAN, by SARANGAPANI Poem Source First Line: Grab whatever cash he has Last Line: So grab the cash Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians MAGRITTE KNEW, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That inside each woman Subject(s): India MAHABALIPURAM, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All alone from his dark sanctum the lingam fronts, affronts the sea Last Line: Our ageing limbs respond to those ageless limbs in the rock %reliefs. Relief is the word Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): India; Temples; Travel MAHABHARATA: BOOK 17. THE GREAT JOURNEY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "to narayen, lord of lords, be glory given" Last Line: "where they have gone, there will I surely go" Subject(s): Death;heaven;hinduism;india;religion; "dead, The;paradise;theology; MAHABHARATA: BOOK 18. THE ENTRY INTO HEAVEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "to narayen, lord of lords, be glory given" Last Line: "waiting to greet him, gladdening and glad" Subject(s): Heaven;hinduism;india;religion; Paradise;theology MAHABHARATA: NIGHT OF SLAUGHTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "to narayen, best of lords, be glory given" Last Line: Kripa and kritavarman Subject(s): Hinduism;india;religion; Theology MAHABHARATA: THE MORNING PRAYER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Our lord the prophet (peace to him!) doth write Last Line: Read fatihah forth beneath the mehrab-board Subject(s): Hinduism;india;prayer;religion; Theology MAHRATTA GHATS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The valleys crack and burn, the exhausted plains Last Line: And did a thousand years go by in vain? %and does another thousand start again? Subject(s): India; Soldiers' Writings; Travel; World War Ii MAIMED DANCING MEN, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is joy in the intimate curve Last Line: On the dark air of this banquet hall %after we have gone Subject(s): India; Sculpture And Sculptors MAIN TEMPLE STREET, PURI, by JAYANTA MAHAPATRA Poem Source First Line: Children, brown as earth, continue to laugh away Last Line: Hanging on to its crutches of silence Subject(s): India MAKERS OF CHILI PASTE, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The old fort on the hill Last Line: In their sleep forever %our breath will blaze %like hills of chilies %against a falling sun Subject(s): India MAKING SAMOSAS, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We sift salt into chapati flour, pour oil Last Line: Fills with the old brown smell %of roasted cumin, crushed cilantro leaves Subject(s): India MAN SPEAKS OF HIS LOVE, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: What can I do to cool my passion Last Line: Who will bring her Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians MANES, THE HERETIC, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Dark, dark at last! And this warm tide of scent Last Line: Of thy supine and cold omnipotence. Subject(s): India; Manes (216-176); Mani; Manichaeus MANMADIN, THE INDIAN CUPID, FLOATING DOWN THE GANGES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is darkness on the sky Last Line: Well may bend to thee, o love! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Cupid; India; Eros MANY YEARS LATER I, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: No one I recognized? Subject(s): Narmada River, India MARRIED WOMAN SPEAKS TO HER LOVER, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: I can't stay too long Last Line: Can't stay too long Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians MARRIED WOMAN TO HER LOVER, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: Go find a root or something Last Line: Go find a root or something Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians MARRIED WOMAN TO HER LOVER, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: My old husband is better than you, and that's the truth Last Line: My old husband is better than you Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians MARRIED WOMAN TO HER LOVER, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: Let me go now to the man Last Line: Let me go for now Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians MARRIED WOMAN'S COMPLAINT, by SARANGAPANI Poem Source First Line: If my husband becomes my pimp Last Line: My husband becomes my pimp Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians MAYA, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: Crows' shadows stipple the trees Last Line: The soul is irreducible as doubt Subject(s): India MEDITATION AT TWILIGHT, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: Near a small village, not far from bangalore Last Line: Of a single, amazed mourner Subject(s): India MEMORIAL VERSES: 2. GOKHALE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heroic heart! Lost hope of all our days! Last Line: Upbuild the temple of her unity. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Heroism; India; Memory; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines MIDSUMMER DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: The rasp of a cricket Subject(s): Narmada River, India MONSOON, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: The river's voice swells with the wailing Last Line: A great flood could drown what burns our souls Subject(s): India MONSOON DAY FABLE, by JAYANTA MAHAPATRA Poem Source First Line: The fable at the beginning of the monsoon Last Line: That gazes aimlessly about the footprints %of someone going home Subject(s): Fables; India; Monsoons MOON FAREWELL, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Being round %was never my idea %of beauty Last Line: Under satellite discs %to cybernetic ecstacy Subject(s): Family Life - India MOTHER AND CHILD, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At last the wrench Last Line: Beyond the voices-- %to travel the river %with her faceless child Subject(s): India MOTHERS OF INVENTION, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: The beggar-woman near the muslim cemetery Last Line: So it opens my arms, that we may lift each other up Subject(s): India MOTHS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: She said %while she looped her hair Last Line: Under the gargantuan leaf %patched on her quilt Subject(s): Family Life - India; Moths MOUNT PLEASANT, USA, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: At night %I'm a man surprising himself Last Line: The cage I carry is the cage I made Subject(s): Family Life - India MUSE, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Entering this dream %like a limb of light Last Line: Its red string %in the hands of intruders Subject(s): Family Life - India MUST YOU WEEP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Spines on a cucumber Subject(s): Narmada River, India MY BARE LEGS FLUNG APART AFTER LOVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: As the climax %subsided Subject(s): Narmada River, India MY BREASTS AT FIRST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Set foot in the neighborhood Subject(s): Narmada River, India MY DAUGHTER'S NEW DOG, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: I don't like to be licked %by a pup in the morning Last Line: Spread from a child's ways %to the child in me, now awake Subject(s): Family Life - India MY LOVER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Is it him? Subject(s): Narmada River, India MY MOTHER AT MAUI, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The plumeria's narcotic perfume Last Line: We walked back, silent, your hand %light as a nesting bird %in the oval of my arm Subject(s): India MY MOTHER COMBS MY HAIR, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The room is full Last Line: We hold the silence %tight between us %like a live wire, %like a strip of gold %torn from a wedding Subject(s): India MY MOTHER TELLS ME A STORY, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First you were Last Line: For days afterward the house %would smell of blood %like the birthrags burning Subject(s): India NAGARAHOLE, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: Where drought once drove burnt offerings Last Line: That urgent darkness, deeper than any art Subject(s): India NARGIS' TOILETTE, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Powder to whiten skin Last Line: Now all is ready. %like a black candle %nargis walks to the gate Subject(s): India NEHRU'S NATION, by THOMAS WILLARD CLARK Poem Source First Line: Dreams confuse and deceive Last Line: Sieve through me, failing to carry me along Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Tom Subject(s): India; Nehru, Pandit Motilal (1861-1931) NIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: And quit talking Subject(s): Narmada River, India NIGHT AFTER NIGHT IN THE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Cold you have grown %how ungrateful Subject(s): Narmada River, India NIGHT OF RAGAS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those all-night concerts in india Last Line: Square and over the performers' platform Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians NIGHTMARE, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Not so much the stare %or the hand Last Line: You grope to hide %in the shadow of her hand Subject(s): Family Life - India NIGHTS OF JASMINE & THUNDER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: We played at love %by the water Subject(s): Narmada River, India NISHI, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I wake up suddenly with the blood hammering in my chest and Last Line: Sweetness, its unbreakable threads of spun-sugar Subject(s): India NO EVIL SPIRIT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: A new mistress? Subject(s): Narmada River, India NO ONE TO SHARE A, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: There's no one even to joke with Subject(s): Narmada River, India NOT KNOWING ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: And learning entirely white Subject(s): Narmada River, India O TROUBLED HEART!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Your one refuge %through life Subject(s): Narmada River, India O WARRIOR'S WIFE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Yet you keep %dancing Subject(s): Narmada River, India OLDER WOMAN TO A YOUNGER, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: Why complain to me? What are you, a little girl Last Line: Why complain to me Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians ON AN ENGRAVING OF HINDOO TEMPLES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little the present careth for the past Last Line: By thy free laws and thy immortal creed. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): India; Temples; Women; Mosques ON THE COAST OF COROMANDEL, by FRANCIS OSBERT SACHEVERELL SITWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Sitwell, Sir Osbert; Sitwell, Osbert Subject(s): Coromandel Coast, India OTHER WOMAN TO VENKATESA, by TALLAPAKA ANNAMACARYA Poem Source First Line: Why blame me that I'm jealous Last Line: When she's with you Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians OUT IN THE FIELDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: His bed before sun up Subject(s): Narmada River, India OUTSIDE PISA, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Above the boca del arno the sky Last Line: Its gleam of fairy lights %that we would die for Subject(s): India PANDAVAS' GAMBLE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Returning from the capitol Last Line: To go now meant take nothing Subject(s): Cities; India; Travel PASSAGE TO INDIA, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Singing my days Last Line: O farther, farther, farther sail! Subject(s): India PERIYAR LAKE, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: The boat chug-chugs across the green water Last Line: At eden's edge, and no further Subject(s): India PIERCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: I'll fall where your %feet pass Subject(s): Narmada River, India PITCH BLACK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: In an empty %house Subject(s): Narmada River, India PLEASE MOTHER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: To mimic our %love cries Subject(s): Narmada River, India PLEASURES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: There in the dark Subject(s): Narmada River, India POEM TO LORD KONKANESVARA. A COURTESAN TO HER LOVER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I'm not like the others Last Line: But only if you have the money Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians POEM, SMALL AND DELIBLE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have been picketing woolworth's Last Line: Picketing woolworth's. Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869-1948); India; Social Protest; Racism; Women; Women's Rights; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Feminism POETS IN GROUPS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: In their photographs, %they stand frozen to permanence Last Line: Their faces, made blank, do not show the depths %in which they're held Subject(s): Family Life - India PONDICHERRY, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: Our hotel's inhabited by saints Last Line: Sinner and saint alike Subject(s): India POSTCARDS FROM KODAI, by KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND Poem Source First Line: Here I am once more. Do you remember Last Line: I suppose %it is the nearest I will get to home Subject(s): India; Travel PREPARATIONS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: In late august they cross the street Last Line: Ah gust! This like any other %a shudder holding its own course Subject(s): Family Life - India PRIDE, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: I'm arguing again with a rickshaw wallah Last Line: Zooms away, leaving me richer in my shame Subject(s): India PRINCESS JEHANARA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the road leads from delhi to the south Last Line: Let no more then be mine when I am dead.' Subject(s): Death; Hearts; India; Dead, The QUILT, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blue and sudden as beginning Last Line: Her face a smooth blankless %titlted up at birds %that fall like flames from the sky Subject(s): India; Quilts RADHA ADDRESSES KRISHNA, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: Like a lotus pond full of crocodiles Last Line: Breeds a fever of longings inside me Subject(s): India RAINFLIES, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Always they came in the monsoon nights Last Line: Antlike in desperate circles %searching for the flame Subject(s): India RAINY NIGHTS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: She likes to sleep %around Subject(s): Narmada River, India RAMAYANA, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You cabled tomorrow I am coming Last Line: Froze between the moon and me Subject(s): Bombay, India; Family Life; Travel RAQUEL WELCH READ TOM WOLFE, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Raquel welch read tom wolfe %I read judith krantz Last Line: It was a platonic relationship %this side of gucciland Subject(s): Family Life - India RAT TRAP, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At night we sleep with the windows bolted Last Line: Our eyes meet, glint-black, in the smoky mirror. %red ants swarm up my spine Subject(s): India REASON FOR NASTURTIUMS, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All night the white fog Subject(s): India RED FLESH-LIKE FILAMENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Polished lacquer case Subject(s): Narmada River, India REGRET OF THE RANEE IN THE HALL OF PEACOCKS, by ADELE FLORENCE CORY NICOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This man has taken my husband's life Last Line: Take him away to death! Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, Laurence Subject(s): Assassination; Duty; India; Passion; Regret REST A MOMENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Make it %nearly impassable Subject(s): Narmada River, India RESTLESS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is but my restless self: the sun Last Line: And reaches up his arms to have the moon! Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Asia; Autumn; Earth; Ethiopia; Ganges River, India; Mississippi; Seasons; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Fall; World RESTROOM, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I push out of customs, stumble, almost fall, legs numb Last Line: Turn on the faucet. Water flows and flows over my hands, %warm and full of light, like a blessing Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; India; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations REVELRY OF THE DYING, by BARTHOLOMEW DOWLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We meet 'neath the sounding rafter Last Line: And hurrah for the next that dies! Variant Title(s): Indian Revelry;the Revel;our Last Toast;revelry In India;hurrah For The Next That Dies Subject(s): Death; England; Epidemics; India; India - British Rule; Plague; Tragedy; Dead, The; English RIVER, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I lie on the grass and listen Last Line: Of the lake-birds, I will, once more, %hear the river inside Subject(s): India ROBBERS' CAVE, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My favorite game was the one Last Line: The prince never comes Subject(s): India ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE WHITE ELEPHANT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great mahawasant, of siam the king Last Line: Was by way of suez, and overland. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Elephants; India; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ROOM, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have walked this corridor so many times Last Line: By the lines of her bones, the fine %lighted hairs on her held-out arm %your eyes, mother, in her mo Subject(s): India ROUTINE, by KEKI N. DARUWALLA Poem Source First Line: The putties were left behind by the raj Last Line: We are marching forward Subject(s): India - British Rule RUNAWAY SISTER, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: No one can stop me! I'm running away!' Last Line: Until your first movie is a box-office success Subject(s): Family Life - India RUSSELL MARKET, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: What I want most is what I deeply fear Last Line: Must bargain hardest for what I hope I'm worth Subject(s): India SAINT THOMAS IN INDIA, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christ risen, commanded thomas, saying 'begone! Last Line: "take this!"" he said, ""I yield my crown to christ." Subject(s): Death; India; Religion; Saints; Singing & Singers; Slavery; Dead, The; Theology; Songs; Serfs SALSETTE AND ELEPHANTA, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis eve -- and o'er the face of parting day Last Line: And seeks redemption from the incarnate god. Subject(s): Elephanta Caves, India; Hinduism; Religion; Salsette (island), India; Sculpture & Sculptors; Theology SANSKRIT, by JAYANTA MAHAPATRA Poem Source First Line: Awaken them; they are knobs of sound Last Line: Its uncertain spell, trembling sadly into mist Subject(s): India SCENE IN DOAAB, by EMMA ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: In tangled depths the jungles spread Last Line: Or moanings of some desert bird Subject(s): India SCREWS & HINGES, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Unable in their freedom Last Line: Hinged to the obedience %of opening and closing Subject(s): Family Life - India SENIOR COURTESAN TO A YOUNGER ONE, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: Are you done with your anger Last Line: Are you done with your anger? Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians SHE CONCEALS HERSELF, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Autumn %someone approaches Subject(s): Narmada River, India SHE TELLS HERSELF, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: The girl ages %a full year Subject(s): Narmada River, India SHIVA TEARS OFF, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: May it %protect you Subject(s): Narmada River, India SHIVA'S PROWESS, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: There are ecstatic rituals every do-good deity knows Last Line: And his entry like the moment of death Subject(s): India SHOPPING WITH AKHMATOVA, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Life's work you say, %the essence of myself? Last Line: Eat the peaches, %we're only shopping Subject(s): Family Life - India SHREE JAGANNATHA, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is written Last Line: What -- text -- did -- you -- come -- from -- out -- of -- what -- oppositional -- dream Subject(s): Buddhism; India; Middle East SHUHUR, JEYPORE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lonely grave, far from all kindred ties Last Line: And pine and perish 'neath a foreign sky. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Graves; India; Tombs; Tombstones SIR WILLIAM GOMM, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At threescore years and vive aroused anew Last Line: While children of such mould are born to thee? Subject(s): England; India; English SKIN, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I woke this morning with a tingling all over my body, not unpleasant, kind Last Line: Of a well-shaft. But I won't give up. I know it's there, somewhere, my door. I %won't be kept from I Subject(s): India SLIPPING BEFORE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Would your words be %so bitter? Subject(s): Narmada River, India SO LONG AS HIS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: But my heart %is unsteady Subject(s): Narmada River, India SOLITAIRE, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: I understand nothing here Last Line: Before they're even spent Subject(s): India SOME INDIAN USES OF HISTORY ON A RAINY DAY, by ATTIPAT KRISHNASWAMI RAMANUJAN Poem Source First Line: Madras,- 1965, and rain Last Line: In that roaring bus from a grey %nowhere to green Subject(s): India SOME PEOPLE, by ATTIPAT KRISHNASWAMI RAMANUJAN Poem Source First Line: Others see a rush, a carnival, a million Last Line: In raw-silk sari, in sandalwood footwear? Subject(s): India SOMEHOW SHE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: And knocks over %the lamp Subject(s): Narmada River, India SOMEONE REMEMBERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: By a person who no longer %visits? Subject(s): Narmada River, India SONDRA, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You stock the shelves with quick-food - baked beans, canned peas Last Line: Shop waiting for customers while darkness drops around you like a net Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; India SONG, by EMMA ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Upon the ganges' regal stream Last Line: Within my native land. Subject(s): Ganges River, India; Rivers SONG OF THE FISHER WIFE, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He pushes out the boat, black skeleton Last Line: Eyes phosphorus, sea-lichen hair, gleam %of shell-studded skin, to see %my forehead branded whore? Subject(s): India SONG OF THE FLOUR-MILL, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn the merry millstone, gunga Last Line: Than idleness and none. Subject(s): India; Mills & Millers SONG OF THE SERPENT-CHARMERS, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come forth, oh snake! Come forth, oh, glittering snake Last Line: It costs thee dear! Subject(s): Animals; India; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SPELL, by VANDANA KHANNA Poem Source First Line: I thought it was the city, the muddled city Last Line: And it was, with garlands stringing the runway like tiny beeds of blood Subject(s): India; Travel STAG AND DOE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Loyal %till death Subject(s): Narmada River, India STANDING NEAR THE GHATS ALONG THE GANGES, by WILLIAM KISTLER Poem Source First Line: Since this is the circumstance of life Last Line: Into ash, gone without hesitation %into the sky of continuous beginning Subject(s): Ganges River, India; Life; Travel STILL KICKING IN AMERICA, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Now that I'm older, %the old ones ask %the same questions Last Line: Hoping for words %to come out right in english Subject(s): Family Life - India; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration STILLNESS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: The hours %sullen goats grazing on emptiness Last Line: Knowing this %the wind plays dead Subject(s): Family Life - India STORM AT POINT SUR, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Stillness is the harbinger of desire Last Line: Claws furled, the sandcrabs wait %for thunder, for rain Subject(s): India STREET SCENE, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: A boy wags his tongue stump at me Last Line: Too much, I say, and move on Subject(s): India SUCH POISE IN HER GAIT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Between those dark %cool thighs? Subject(s): Narmada River, India SUDHA'S STORY: 1, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He saw her first at the festival Last Line: His lips kissed shut %the surprise in her eyes Subject(s): India SUDHA'S STORY: 2, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On honeymoon at the taj mahal Last Line: When she woke, the ceiling %stretched above her, endless, %always empty Subject(s): India SUDHA'S STORY: 3, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When he found her throwing up Last Line: Die away. In the black quiet, %only the flames. %blood streaked, they whisper to me %in my daughter' Subject(s): India SUMMER POEM, by JAYANTA MAHAPATRA Poem Source First Line: Over the sloughing of the sombre wind Last Line: By the deep roar of funeral pyres Subject(s): India SURE THEY'LL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: But I can't %sleep Subject(s): Narmada River, India SUTTEE, by THOMAS SKINNER Poem Source First Line: The evening sun-beams threw their golden light Last Line: Courts the proud triumph of a hindoo bride, %betrothed in life, in death to be allied Subject(s): India; Travel SWANSONG, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: After the snowfall, %a blank sheet of paper Last Line: The black neck of a swan %drooping on the windowsill Subject(s): Family Life - India SWORDS OF INDIA, by HAROLD BEGBIE Poem Source First Line: They said, the gentle germans said Subject(s): India TABLEAU VIVANT, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: Morning arouses an orchestra of bells and horns Last Line: Break into spontaneous applause Subject(s): India TAJ, by H. G. KEENE Poem Source First Line: White, like a spectre seen when night is old Last Line: An aspiration fixed, a sigh made stone Subject(s): India; Taj Mahal; Travel TAJ MAHAL, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: Some god must have once Last Line: Packs of stray white dogs Subject(s): India TAKING STOCK, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Counting time has come simply %because this sense of worthlessness Last Line: Partly or wholly a truth discovered, %through the spinning years Subject(s): Family Life - India TALKING'S NO USE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: To be separate? Subject(s): Narmada River, India TEA BOY, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All day I carry glasses of tea Last Line: That fierce glistening, %the sky full of scars Subject(s): India TERMINI, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We're in an immense hall lined with black-black walls, black floor, a roof Last Line: Breath is white as the alyssums that grow in our yard. Let's go home, I reply Subject(s): India THE BALCONY, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stillness / in the middle of the night Last Line: I wait for my arrival Subject(s): Delhi, India; Night THE BAYADERE, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Near strange, weird temples, where the ganges' tide Last Line: Lulls the grim, drowsy cobra on her arm. Subject(s): Ganges River, India; Goddesses & Gods; India; Mythology; Temples; Mosques THE BIRD'S RELEASE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go forth! For she is gone! Last Line: But it wins her back no more! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds; Cemeteries; India; Graveyards THE DEFENCE OF LUCKNOW, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Banner of england, not for a season, o banner of britain, hast thou Last Line: And ever aloft on the palace roof the old banner of england blew. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): India - Sepoy Rebellion (1857); Lucknow, India THE DOWNFALL OF DELHI, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1857 and on the 14th of september Last Line: And will be handed down to posterity. Subject(s): Delhi, India; Failure; Loss; War THE FRIEND, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great friend Last Line: A profounder mystery. Subject(s): Friendship; India; Sea; Ocean THE GANGES, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sorry but we can't go to the immersions tonight Last Line: Children watering their charges, the black lulled elephants. Subject(s): Funerals; Ganges River, India; Memory; Spiritual Life; Burials THE GANGES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On sweeps the mighty river - calmly flowing Last Line: Bear as that bears -- where'er thou goest -- blessing! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Ganges River, India THE HINDOO GIRL'S SONG, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Float on - float on - my haunted bark Last Line: For it has gained the shore. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Girls; India; Superstition THE INDIAN CITY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Royal in splendour went down the day Last Line: This was the work of one deep heart wrung! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): India; Women THE MAHRATTA GHATS, by ALUN LEWIS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The valleys crack and burn, the exhausted plains Subject(s): India; Soldiers' Writings; Travel; World War Ii; Journeys; Trips; Second World War THE MISSION TEA PARTY, by EMMA HUNTINGTON NASON Poem Text First Line: The war in the east had ended Last Line: "played grandly—""god save the queen!" Subject(s): India - Sepoy Rebellion (1857); Missions & Missionaries THE MISSIONARY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, whose is this fair picture, which the light Last Line: Plucked from the record of a breaking heart. Subject(s): India; Missions & Missionaries THE ORDER OF THE STAR OF INDIA (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The star of india!' 'tis a goodly name Last Line: Sees from almorah's hill its rising ray. Subject(s): Havelock, Sir Henry (1795-1857); Heber, Reginald (1783-1826); India THE ORDER OF THE STAR OF INDIA (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed - methought I stood upon a strand Last Line: Of sunrise broke and yet fulfill'd my dream. Subject(s): Dreams; India; Nightmares THE OVERLAND MAIL, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the name of the empress of india, make way Last Line: In the name of the empress the overland-mail. Subject(s): Duty; India - British Rule; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE PIPES AT LUCKNOW, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pipes of the misty moorlands Last Line: The pipes at lucknow played! Subject(s): Havelock, Sir Henry (1795-1857); India - Sepoy Rebellion (1857); Lucknow, India; Music & Musicians THE RAJAH'S RIDE; A PUNJAB SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Now is the devil-horse is come to sindh Last Line: "wah! Wah! Futtee! - wah, gooroo" Subject(s): Horseback Riding;india THE RAJPOOT WIFE, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing something, jymul rao! For the goats are now Last Line: The ashes of dead kinsmen to gungas holy spring. Subject(s): India THE RAKI, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's dust upon the distant wind, and shadow on the skies Last Line: Embalmed by poetry and love. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Chivalry; Gifts & Giving; India; Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW (SEPTEMBER 25, 1857), by ROBERT TRAILL SPENCE LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, that last day in lucknow fort! Last Line: As the pipes played auld lang syne Subject(s): Lucknow, India; War THE SONG OF MUEZZIN ABOU, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wake at dawn and fling sleep from my eyes Last Line: Allahu akbar! 'llah il allah! Allah! Subject(s): India; Religion; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Theology THE SONG OF THE CITIES, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Royal and dower-royal, I the queen Last Line: To seek the happy isles! Subject(s): Auckland, New Zealand; Bombay, India; Brisbane, Australia; Calcutta, India; Cape Town, South Africa; Cities; Halifax, Canada; Hobart, Tasmania; Hong-kong; Madras, India; Melbourne, Australia; Montreal, Canada; Quebec, Canada; Rangoon, Myanmar (burma); Si THE TELEGRAPH CABLE TO INDIA; ANTICIPATIVE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How all the old ways of intercourse have ceased Last Line: Shall move the needle on the shores of ind. Subject(s): India; Telegraph; Telegrams THE ZENANA; AN EASTERN TALE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is there that the world hath not Last Line: Recalled this tale of ancient time. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): India THEY ASKED IF A FEW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: At the love scratch Subject(s): Narmada River, India THEY CALL HIM A LION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: The armed watchmen %as well Subject(s): Narmada River, India THIS MORNING HE LEFT AS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: I find them all %desolate Subject(s): Narmada River, India THIS POEM, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: This poem is the chronicle of the ruthless Last Line: This poem is my mouth in splinters %chew it well brother Subject(s): Family Life - India THIS VILLAGE NO LONGER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Was enough to destroy the %whole village Subject(s): Narmada River, India THOSE FIRST DAYS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Where it ends Subject(s): Narmada River, India THOUGHTS ON CHRISTMAS-DAY IN INDIA, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is christmas, and the sunshine Last Line: Is what I can feel no more. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Christmas; India; Nativity, The THROUGH THE WHOLE NIGHT WE SLOWLY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Her entrails with fire Subject(s): Narmada River, India TIGER MASK RITUAL, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you put on the mask the thunder starts Last Line: Against the circle that always closes in %just before dawn? Subject(s): India TINY VILLAGE ASLEEP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Lies there and weeps Subject(s): Narmada River, India TO A STRAY FOWL, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor bird! Destined to lead thy life Last Line: As erst by indus' bank and far ganges. Subject(s): Birds; Ganges River, India TO A WARLORD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Your flashing sword Last Line: Taste final %release Subject(s): Narmada River, India TO A WARLORD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Your enemy's wife Last Line: Eating wild roots Subject(s): Narmada River, India TO AN OLDER WOMAN, by SARANGAPANI Poem Source First Line: All those days he called you Last Line: Now you're circling his house Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians TO IMRAN IN BOMBAY, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Salaam aleikhem, imran, once more Last Line: The eyes of planes, the lights of travelers Subject(s): Bombay, India; Hinduism; Religion TO MRINAL SEN, ON SEEING BHUVAN SHOME, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The man wanted to shoot birds, as men have done Last Line: With this bird we hunted down Subject(s): India TO THE MARQUIS OF DUFFERIN AND AVA, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At times our britain cannot rest Last Line: Will mix with love for you and yours. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Blackwood, Frederick (1826-1902); Death - Children; India; Death - Babies TOURISTS, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The heat is like a fist between the eyes. The man and woman wander down Last Line: Flowers tumble over the broken bricks Subject(s): India TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. INDIA, THE WISDOM-LAND, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here also in india - wonderful, hidden - over thousands of miles Last Line: The precious semen of democracy. Subject(s): Himalayas (mountains); India; Jungles; Nations; Nature TRAIN, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every evening between six and seven I go to sialdah station. No one Last Line: And I don't mind too much when my wife turns and puts a damp arm over %me Subject(s): India TRAITOR BODY, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I bend into dark furrowed soil Last Line: Only what is left: silent light, %smooth skin of river, this last winning %over the traitor body Subject(s): India TRIBAL GODDESS, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: The circassian eye lashes %of this goddess Last Line: Leaving me to smudges %of noise without a name Subject(s): Family Life - India TRIBALS, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: In this tropical place, only the kurubas know Last Line: And one for me, who's entribed by all the world Subject(s): India TWO WOMEN, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: The answer to all loneliness %may yet swallow us Last Line: At an upward point %of the vanishing ascent Subject(s): Family Life - India TWO WOMEN OUTSIDE A CIRCUS, PUSHKAR, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Faces pressed to the green stakes Last Line: The animal trainer in her leopard skins, %holding a blazing hoop through which leap %endless smiling Subject(s): India UGLY DOG, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: Because it was sweltering and I was rushing Last Line: Your guidance to return from her deadened life Subject(s): India UNTIL SOLD DO US PART, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Joanna & george, married, mangled, %have bought the house next door Last Line: Marriages may come apart %but a house keeps its equity Subject(s): Family Life - India VACANCIES, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Out of my body %I take my loneliness Last Line: I've anchored bone %to a family of mirrors Subject(s): Family Life - India VAN GOGH'S EAR, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Think of his ear shooting swiftly %through the century Last Line: The seams of its scream %pulled apart like a zipper Subject(s): Family Life - India VATICIDE (FOR MOHANDAS GANDHI), by MYRON O'HIGGINS Poem Source First Line: ... He is murdered upright in the day Last Line: The sun burns down %and the seas return to their imagined homes Subject(s): Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869-1948); India VEERAPPAN, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: Alligators aren't known for intelligence Last Line: Every leaf's name, every seed and sin? Subject(s): India VER TENEBROSUM: OUR EASTERN TREASURE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in cobwebb'd corners I can hear Last Line: A splendour blotted from that far-watched brow? Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; India; British Empire; England - Empire VILLAGE MARKET, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: Gone the heirloom brass, the earthenware vessels Last Line: The fragile soil beneath nurtures the seeds of change Subject(s): India VILLAGERS VISITING JODHPUR ENJOY ICED SWEETS, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In their own village they would never dare it Last Line: They have forgotten to be men %and are, briefly, real Subject(s): India VISIT, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I peel off your plastic underwear Last Line: Grip my hand hard, not letting go, %as though forever were a possible truth Subject(s): India VOYAGES, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Someone while we sleep %in the soft hues of our longing Last Line: Having felt nothing %outside of our thoughts Subject(s): Family Life - India WALK, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Each sunday evening the nuns took us Last Line: Beautiful killarney, a long line of girls, all of us %so far from home Subject(s): India WANT, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: There are too many names here for suffering Last Line: Drives my hand to write -- utterly empty of want Subject(s): India WHAT CAN I DO?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: He asks where I %learnt it Subject(s): Narmada River, India WHEN A LOVER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: To all who suffer Subject(s): Narmada River, India WHERE HAS THE SUN GONE?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: A line of white %cranes Subject(s): Narmada River, India WHERE TO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: With lethal arrows the %love god? Subject(s): Narmada River, India WHISPERS, DEEP KISSES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Gone like a thief Subject(s): Narmada River, India WHY, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Concerned as I am with the west highlands and hebrides Last Line: Why? Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Dayananda Sarasvati; Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869-1948); India; Scotland WHY ARE YOU THIN?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Fell on %my chest Subject(s): Narmada River, India WHY BREATHING HARD?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: What gave you that? Subject(s): Narmada River, India WIDOW AT DAWN, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the airless morning I %jerk open the shutters of the room I share Last Line: As from the giant blister %of the heart. I will be safe til night Subject(s): India WIFE OF THE TRAVELER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: She blinks back %a tear Subject(s): Narmada River, India WIFE TO A FRIEND, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: Don't tell me what he did in some other country Last Line: Don't tell me what he did Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians WIFE'S COMPLAINT, by SARANGAPANI Poem Source First Line: How is this household Last Line: Tell me what to do Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians WOMAN ADDRESSES HER SLEEPING LOVER, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I lie holding you Last Line: I lie holding you, %loving you, wishing %you would never wake Subject(s): India WOMAN TALKING TO HERSELF, by TALLAPAKA ANNAMACARYA Poem Source First Line: Better keep one's distance Last Line: Better keep one's distance Subject(s): India WOMAN TO HER FRIEND, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: If the betel girl goes with him Last Line: Wouldn't it be a scandal Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians WOMAN TO HER FRIEND, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: The lord who always slept Last Line: Ayyayyo, he's no sick of me Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians WOMAN TO HER FRIEND, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: Go ask him Last Line: To tell the truth Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians WOMAN TO HER FRIEND, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: What can he do worse than this Last Line: What can he do worse than this Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians WOMAN TO HER FRIEND, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: Friend, tell me, who is more wicked, he or I Last Line: Now tell me, who is more wicked Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians WOMAN TO HER FRIEND, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: When will I get married to the famous mannaru rangu Last Line: I wouldn't wish it on my enemies Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians WOMAN TO HER FRIEND, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: Friend, I didn't say a word Last Line: I didn't say a word Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians WOMAN TO HER GIRLFRIENDS, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: What can I do about this Last Line: This stupid heart Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians WOMAN TO HER LOVER, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: How soon it's morning already Last Line: It's morning already Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians WOMAN TO HER LOVER, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: If your mind is like mine Last Line: If your mind is like mine Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians WOMAN TO HER LOVER, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: Your body is my body Last Line: Your body is my body, you used to say Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians WOMAN TO HER LOVER, by TALLAPAKA ANNAMACARYA Poem Source First Line: Don't you know my house Last Line: Don't you know my house Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians WOMAN TO HER MESSENGER, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: Has he forgotten me or what Last Line: Go ask him, he knows Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians WOMAN TO HER RELUCTANT LOVER, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: Because I'm a good woman, I forgave you this time Last Line: Because I'm a good woman Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians WOMAN WITH KITE, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Meadow of crabgrass, faded dandelions Last Line: To release it into space, her life, %into its bright, weightless orbit Subject(s): India WORLD TREE, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The tree grows out of my navel. Black Last Line: To call. The tree grows and grows %into the world between us Subject(s): India YOGI SPEAKING, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: One lotus opens Last Line: That foundling, going home Subject(s): India YOU ACT SO CONTRITE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Flung to the ground? Subject(s): Narmada River, India YOU COME TO ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Visit without the %deceit? Subject(s): Narmada River, India YOU IGNORED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Like a wild %animal wounded Subject(s): Narmada River, India YOU SAY THE WHOLE VILLAGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: To get off %with your life Subject(s): Narmada River, India YOU START AWAKE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: In some %other girl's bed Subject(s): Narmada River, India YOU, MY MESSENGER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Watch %over your art Subject(s): Narmada River, India YOUNG MEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: I bow down before it Subject(s): Narmada River, India YOUNG WOMAN TO A FRIEND, by KSHETRAYYA Poem Source First Line: Those women, they deceived me Last Line: Those women, they told me he was a woman Subject(s): India; Music And Musicians YUBA CITY SCHOOL, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the black trunk I shake out Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; India; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts YUBA CITY SCHOOL, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the black trunk I shake out Last Line: From me, nail shut my lips. My son %will keep sitting in the last row %among the red words that drin Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; India; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations YUBA CITY WEDDING, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Empty kitchen. Only a few smudges of yellow across the colorless sky, like Last Line: Face and breathe in the bright waiting air Subject(s): India |
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