Love poem sequence · 1919
Black Marigolds (Chaurapanchasika)
A free interpretation of the Chaurapanchasika
Translated by E. Powys Mathers (Black Marigolds, 1919)
Fifty stanzas, each beginning "Even now", in which a condemned lover remembers his princess, in E. Powys Mathers's free-verse rendering of the poem attributed to the Kashmiri poet Bilhana.
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