Aesthetic Blasphemy

Love as pure as not-loved

If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror...

To each his own!

मियां मैं शेर हूँ, शेरो की गुर्राहट नहीं जाती, मैं लहज़ा नरम भी कर लू, तो झिन्झालाहत नहीं जाती | मैं एक दिन बेखयाली...

There's love, and then there is wisdom.

But who, alas! can love, and then be wise? Not that remorse did not oppose temptation; A little still she strove, and...

Could Would Is Are

“I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather...

On seeing a child playing on his own

“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless...