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Even though you go barebodied, wearing but a single garment, to your rendez-vous with an infatuated woman, you look finer than all other young men.*

I am like Rahu, one half alive, the other half dead: half of him is touched by nectar during an eclipse, half of me was embraced by my beloved when we met on the road.*

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My beloved, who in her noble heart is gentle, rejected my advances by feigning sleep; I lay awake, and by means of the tear-drenched bed she made me aware of my fickleness.*

Hey, you traveler! The fact that you hurt your tongue when you tried to eat gravel, merely because of the other meaning of the word—sugar candy, will be trifling compared with how people will ridicule you!*

Although her haughtiness is being destroyed by rivals whom due to the freshness of their youth she cannot defeat, the lady of the house still displays the pride of a favorite wife, since her son is dear to his father.

As if it had been insulted by the intense heat of summer, feeble coolness now retreats to the water in the pitchers that are the breasts of young girls eager to bathe.