Poems by Toru Dutt
Our Casuarina Tree
... Sometimes, and most in winter,on its crest &emsp ...
Sonnet
... Looks through their gaps, and the white lotus changes ...
Lakshman
... No. Flames from her eyes shot forth and burned, ...
My Vocation
... Life struck me with fright - ...
Love Came to Flora Asking for a Flower
... And "lily-white" - the queenliest flower that blows ...
The Broken Bell
... d horses, and around whom lieThe dead and dying in a tangled mass --Utters, unable or to move or die ...
Christmas
... them stars the blue adorn,And hark! In white the angel-quireSings to the Shepherds, "Christ is born ...
The Death of the Wolf
... nd walk in singleness of heart alongThe way where fate has placed thee, whether smoothOr rough it be ...
Moses
... n his hand,Joshua, God's new Elect, oppressed with care,Pensive and pale, the weight of rule to bear ...
The Retreat from Moscow
... he meaning know:The man of glory trembled, weak and pale,Like some frail reed beneath an autumn gale ...
A Sea of Foliage Girds our Garden round
... he eastward, when the moonLooks through their gaps, and the white lotus changes Into a cup of silver ...
The Sleep of the Condor
... avour,A speck, but a speck, and as frozen for everHe sleeps in the air, with his wings wide-extended ...
The Sower
... Marches he along the plainTo and fro, and scatters wideFrom his hands the precious grain ...
The Young Captive
... n, her speech,And such as lived near her, blameless might teach That life is the best gift of heaven ...
