What a life is it if there is no sorrow?
What a life is it if there is no cry?
O Sayeed, your two eyes seem to be two dead rivers,
for the eyes haven't been deluded with the pain of love.
If men are habitations of God, we should fall at their feet
But we should leave alone their habits and goals.
Fire is good to drive away cold
But you must not tie it up
And carry it around in a cloth.
Tuka says, 'A scorpion or a snake is a habitation of Narayana;
You may worship Him from afar, but you must not touch Him.'
I Rummets store Uendelige,
Hvor Sole og Stjerner er kun som Frø,
Der Milliarders umaalte Rige,
Hvor Sjælelivet kan aldrig døe,
Der Visdom og Kjærlighed aabner sin Favn.
Vor Fader! Helliget vorde Dit Navn!
Fra Hjem og Venner komme ingen Breve;
Stor er min Længsel — thi jeg er en Daare:
Hvis der var noget Ondt, de sikkert skreve,
Jeg faaer kun Brev, naar Brevet ret kan saare.
Man gav mig Marmorguder, Oltids Skatte,
En bedre Himmel, hvor Orangen groer.
Og dette skal mig hendes Tab erstatte?
Ak, Venskab end paa Underværker troer!
I know an ice handler who wears a flannel shirt with pearl buttons the size of a dollar,
And he lugs a hundred-pound hunk into a saloon ice-box, helps himself to cold ham and rye bread,
Tells the bartender it’s hotter than yesterday and will be hotter yet to-morrow, by Jesus,
And is on his way with his head in the air and a hard pair of fists.
He spends a dollar or so every Saturday night on a two hundred pound woman who washes dishes in the Hotel Morrison.
I sang to you and the moon
But only the moon remembers.
I sang
O reckless free-hearted
free-throated rythms,
Even the moon remembers them
And is kind to me.
‘Do you remember me? or are you proud?’
Lightly advancing thro’ her star-trimm’d crowd,
Ianthe said, and look’d into my eyes.
‘A yes, a yes to both: for Memory
Where you but once have been must ever be,
And at your voice Pride from his throne must rise.’
YOUR pleasures spring like daisies in the grass,
Cut down and up again as blithe as ever;
From you, Ianthe, little troubles pass
Like little ripples in a sunny river.
From you, Ianthe, little troubles pass
Like little ripples down a sunny river;
Your pleasures spring like daisies in the grass,
Cut down, and up again as blithe as ever.
