Love
Epigram V
Translated by Paul Elmer More (1898) · From A Century of Indian Epigrams (1898)
Love
This Winter gale will play the gallant lover,
And meeting careless girls
Will pluck their gowns, and with rude fingers hover
Among their tangled curls.
He'll kiss their eyelids too, their cheeks caress
Till they are all a-tremble;
He'll tease their lips till murmurs soft confess
The love they would dissemble.
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Bhartrihari. “Epigram V.” Translated by Paul Elmer More. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bhartrihari/4/.
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Bhartrihari. “Epigram V.” Translated by Paul Elmer More. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bhartrihari/4/.
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