Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
My cygnets that my pillows breed at night
Slowly crawl into my head thence to my heart
There they rest for the rest of the night
In the morning light on my papyrus in rhyming lines do they dart.
From an admixture of water and milk
They have the tongues to drink pure milk
Of this world of despair and hope
They have the tongues too to sing the song of hope.
Like the winged reveries of a bride of sixteen springs
Now my swans, look ahead and spread wide their whitest wings
Soar high and flash through the silvery flakes
And alight on the lofty peaks and serene lakes.
A casual traveller or a fervent pilgrim that sees them once
Will never forget their arresting grace and alluring cadence
They haunt his sinews and bones and veins
And relieve him of all his twisting strains.