Love
Epigram XIV
Translated by Paul Elmer More (1898) · From A Century of Indian Epigrams (1898)
Love
Brightly the hearth-fire leap, and the lit lamp
Be burning clear and high;
Let sun or moon and starry hosts encamp
With beacons in the sky: —
Yet darkness in my heart and all is dark,
Till I behold thine eyes and their love-spark.
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Bhartrihari. “Epigram XIV.” Translated by Paul Elmer More. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bhartrihari/13/.
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Bhartrihari. “Epigram XIV.” Translated by Paul Elmer More. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bhartrihari/13/.
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