Love
Epigram XIX
Translated by Paul Elmer More (1898) · From A Century of Indian Epigrams (1898)
Love
Now judge ye! — For a girl I walked forlorn
Who laughed my vows to scorn;
She loved another, who in coin repaid
Wooing a second maid.
And she, this second, making all complete,
Would worship at my feet. —
Four pretty fools and Kama with his malice
Thus drove me from my palace.
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Bhartrihari. “Epigram XIX.” Translated by Paul Elmer More. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bhartrihari/18/.
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