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Nature and Longing in Poetry

The poem describes a lush garden surrounded by a sea of varied green foliage, contrasting colors, and tall palms and bamboos. The garden comes alive under the moonlight, as the light shines through the bamboo ranges and lotuses take on a silvery glow. The beauty of the scene is overwhelming and transports the viewer to an amazing primeval Eden.

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Nature and Longing in Poetry

The poem describes a lush garden surrounded by a sea of varied green foliage, contrasting colors, and tall palms and bamboos. The garden comes alive under the moonlight, as the light shines through the bamboo ranges and lotuses take on a silvery glow. The beauty of the scene is overwhelming and transports the viewer to an amazing primeval Eden.

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Baugmaree

A sea of foliage girds our garden round,

But not a sea of dull unvaried green,

Sharp contrasts of all colors here are seen;

The light-green graceful tamarinds abound

Amid the mangoe clumps of green profound,

And palms arise, like pillars gray, between;

And o'er the quiet pools the seemuls lean,

Red,--red, and startling like a trumpet's sound.

But nothing can be lovelier than the ranges

Of bamboos to the eastward, when the moon

Looks through their gaps, and the white lotus changes

Into a cup of silver. One might swoon

Drunken with beauty then, or gaze and gaze

On a primeval Eden, in amaze.

-Toru Dutt
All You Who Sleep Tonight

All you who sleep tonight


Far from the ones you love,
No hand to left or right
And emptiness above -

Know that you aren't alone


The whole world shares your tears,
Some for two nights or one,
And some for all their years.

- Vikram Seth

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