Category: Poetry
VIDYĀPATI THĀKUR is one of the most renowned of the Vaishnava poets of Hindustān. Before him there had been the great Jāyadeva, with his Gītā Govinda made in Sanskrit; and it is to this tradition Vidyāpati belongs, rather than to that of Rāmānanda, Kabīr, and Tul'si Dās, who s...
VIDYĀPATI THĀKUR is one of the most renowned of the Vaishnava poets of Hindustān. Before him there had been the great Jāyadeva, with his Gītā Govinda made in Sanskrit; and it is...
6. Part 6The following synonyms of Krishna are used by Vidyāpati: Hari, Mādhava, Kāna, Kānu, Kānta, Kanāi, Murāri, Murali, Banamāli, Shyāma, Vallabha, Giridhara, Gokula-nātha, Nanda-kuma...
5. Part 5_Rādhā:_ Fresh flowers are springing by every cabin, brake and copse. The koil sings the pancam note: The southern breeze has reached the snowy hills, And yet my darling has not...
4. Part 4_Krishna:_ The sun is in the East, the tide of night has ebbed, The moon is merging in the sky. The water-lily closed,--and even so, my lady fair, Your lily-face is shut.
3. Part 3_Rādhā:_ Do not urge me, dearest maiden, do not urge. What can I do, if he should soothe my fears? Few are my years, for I am not so old as Kānu,-- I am too shamefast and too te...
2. Part 2Half the wimple had slipped, half was her face in smiles. Half a wave in her eyes: Half of her bosom I saw, half of the wimple filling,-- Love consumes me ever since.
7. Part 7_'--Cast shame and pride away,_ _Let honour gild the world's eventless day,_ _Shrink not from change and shudder not at crime,_ _Leave lies to rattle in the sieve of Time!_ _The...