Читать книгу Seven Hundred Elegant Verses - Govardhana - Страница 54

Although the sun has risen, it does not light up the sky that is overcast with snow clouds, like a lamp in the mouth of an earthen bowl filled with coarse ghee.*

Whether I get up, sit down, lie on my bed, turn around, twist my body, or walk about, like asthma that affects the heart, my lover makes me dizzy all the time.

A single glance serves as the messenger girl looking after an affair, of two young people who have not yet fathomed each other’s minds and who are scared of both a rejection of a direct approach and an end to their romance because infatuation might wear off.

Her body becomes lively with its otherwise lifeless buttocks due to the sex with an excellent lover, and thus it can be made to writhe in all kinds of ways by those who know how to, just as the mountain Mandara became mobile with its otherwise immobile slopes, due to the excellent serpent being tied to it, and could be pulled hither and thither by the gods.*

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Bringing a bushel of rice, the frightened farmer tells the doctor that on the breast of his wife a red skin-disease has broken out, looking like a half-moon.

You who have puckered your lips like a bud, with eyes halfclosed in anticipation of the bits of ashes! Stop! This is not smoke, but a bee that is following your breath!