This document discusses abandoning reserve and modesty in favor of sexual pleasure and lust, which is metaphorically referred to as "mounting the horse of palm".
Over three stanzas, the speaker describes discarding shame and manliness in order to satisfy desires, with lust described as a powerful tide that sweeps away restraint. A woman with bracelets is said to have provided the horse of palm, causing nighttime sorrow.
The final stanza notes that while women aim to remain virtuous and tender even when waves of lust crash over them, love risks tearing away their veil of secrecy and exposing their passions publicly.
This document discusses abandoning reserve and modesty in favor of sexual pleasure and lust, which is metaphorically referred to as "mounting the horse of palm".
Over three stanzas, the speaker describes discarding shame and manliness in order to satisfy desires, with lust described as a powerful tide that sweeps away restraint. A woman with bracelets is said to have provided the horse of palm, causing nighttime sorrow.
The final stanza notes that while women aim to remain virtuous and tender even when waves of lust crash over them, love risks tearing away their veil of secrecy and exposing their passions publicly.
This document discusses abandoning reserve and modesty in favor of sexual pleasure and lust, which is metaphorically referred to as "mounting the horse of palm".
Over three stanzas, the speaker describes discarding shame and manliness in order to satisfy desires, with lust described as a powerful tide that sweeps away restraint. A woman with bracelets is said to have provided the horse of palm, causing nighttime sorrow.
The final stanza notes that while women aim to remain virtuous and tender even when waves of lust crash over them, love risks tearing away their veil of secrecy and exposing their passions publicly.
1131 To those who 've proved love's joy, and now afflicted mourn, Except the helpful 'horse of palm', no other strength remains. To those who after enjoyment of sexual pleasure suffer (for want of more), there is no help so efficient as the palmyra horse. 1132 My body and my soul, that can no more endure, Will lay reserve aside, and mount the 'horse of palm'. Having got rid of shame, the suffering body and soul save themselves on the palmyra horse. 1133 I once retained reserve and seemly manliness; To-day I nought possess but lovers' 'horse of palm'. Modesty and manliness were once my own; now, my own is the palmyra horse that is ridden by the lustful. 1134 Love's rushing tide will sweep away the raft Of seemly manliness and shame combined. The raft of modesty and manliness, is, alas, carried-off by the strong current of lust. 1135 The maid that slender armlets wears, like flowers entwined, Has brought me 'horse of palm,' and pangs of eventide! She with the small garland-like bracelets has given me the palmyra horse and the sorrow that is endured at night. 1136 Of climbing 'horse of palm' in midnight hour, I think; My eyes know no repose for that same simple maid. Mine eyes will not close in sleep on your mistress's account; even at midnight will I think of mounting the palmyra horse. 1137 There's nought of greater worth than woman's long-enduring soul, Who, vexed by love like ocean waves, climbs not the 'horse of palm'. There is nothing so noble as the womanly nature that would not ride the palmyra horse, though plunged a sea of lust. 1138 In virtue hard to move, yet very tender, too, are we; Love deems not so, would rend the veil, and court publicity! Even the Lust (of women) transgresses its secrecy and appears in public, forgetting
Story of the Sheikh and the Brahmin Followed by a Conversation Between Ganges and Himalaya to the Effect That the Continuation of Social Life Depend on Firm Attachments to the Characteristic Traditions of the Community
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