Coloured Stars: versions of fifty Asiatic love poems
Edward Powys Mathers
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
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"There is an opportunity of knowing in brilliant English translations much of the poetry of China and Japan, of India and Persia; and Arabic poetry is
accessible ; but I believe this book to be the first general English anthology of Asiatic verse. It is haphazard, as such books must be until some polyglot scholar gives a whole life to the matter. Variety was the only aim possible in a space so small, and therefore I have selected love poems of different centuries and of both primitive and subtle peoples."
- Summary by Author (1 hr 19 min)
Chapters
Foreword | 2:45 | Read by Nemo |
Shade of the Orange Leaves | 1:08 | Read by Nemo |
The Dalliance of the Leopards | 0:47 | Read by Amy Gramour |
War Song | 2:40 | Read by Nemo |
Black Hair | 4:50 | Read by Nemo |
The Garden of Bamboos | 0:47 | Read by Amy Gramour |
Eyes That Move Not | 2:24 | Read by Amy Gramour |
Gazal | 1:02 | Read by Nemo |
Doubt | 0:32 | Read by Amy Gramour |
Song | 1:37 | Read by Nemo |
My Desire | 3:43 | Read by Nemo |
Distich | 0:33 | Read by Amy Gramour |
Song | 0:41 | Read by Amy Gramour |
The Emperor | 1:30 | Read by Nemo |
Song | 1:16 | Read by Nemo |
Love Song | 2:04 | Read by Nemo |
Fardiyat | 0:45 | Read by Nemo |
Loving Things | 1:12 | Read by Nemo |
Being Together at Night | 0:41 | Read by Amy Gramour |
The Peach Flower | 1:25 | Read by Nemo |
Leila | 1:40 | Read by Nemo |
Looking at the Moon | 0:37 | Read by Amy Gramour |
Song | 0:47 | Read by Nemo |
A Love Rapture | 1:05 | Read by Nemo |
English Girl | 1:48 | Read by Nemo |
Gazal | 1:24 | Read by Nemo |
Lover's Jealousy | 4:34 | Read by Nemo |
Spring Cold | 2:02 | Read by Amy Gramour |
Climbing Up to You | 1:13 | Read by Amy Gramour |
Grief | 0:31 | Read by Amy Gramour |
Song | 1:32 | Read by Nemo |
Last Time | 0:39 | Read by Amy Gramour |
Mokcha | 1:32 | Read by Nemo |
Gazal | 1:09 | Read by Nemo |
Vai! Tchodjouklareum | 2:57 | Read by Nemo |
The Mirror | 1:45 | Read by Amy Gramour |
Fardiyat | 0:46 | Read by Nemo |
At the East Gate | 1:09 | Read by Nemo |
Submission | 1:53 | Read by Nemo |
In the Palace | 0:58 | Read by Amy Gramour |
A Thing Remembered | 1:34 | Read by Nemo |
The Most Virtuous Woman | 0:56 | Read by Nemo |
The Meeting | 1:34 | Read by Nemo |
The Drunken Rose | 1:23 | Read by Nemo |
The Tryst | 1:50 | Read by Nemo |
Zulma | 1:38 | Read by Nemo |
Rubaiyat | 0:49 | Read by Nemo |
Picture | 0:44 | Read by Amy Gramour |
White | 0:40 | Read by Nemo |
Song | 0:40 | Read by Amy Gramour |
The Red Lotus | 1:22 | Read by Amy Gramour |
Envoy | 0:45 | Read by Nemo |
Four Notes | 3:03 | Read by Nemo |