Manmohan Ghose Desire Poems
- 1. Mentem Mortalia Tangunt
Now lonely is the wood:
No flower now lingers, none!
The virgin sisterhood
Of roses, all are gone;
... - 2. Youth
'Tis my twentieth year: dim, now, youth stretches behind me;
Breaking fresh at my feet, lies, like an ocean, the world.
And despised seem, now, those quiet fields I have travell'd:
Eager to thee I turn, Life, and thy visions of joy.
... - 3. A Dream
Thou who hast follow'd far with eyes of love
The shy and virgin sights of Spring to-day,
Sad soul, what dost thou in this happy grove?
Hast thou no pipe to touch, no strain to play,
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