India’s Love Lyrics
Writing as Laurence Hope, Adela Florence Nicolson presented these passionate poems as renderings of verse from India, though most are her own invention. Drawing on the landscapes of the North-West Frontier and the imagery of Persian and Sufi tradition, the poems return again and again to longing, forbidden desire, separation, and the ache of a love that cannot last. The best known, the ‘Kashmiri Song’ with its cry of ‘Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar,’ was set to music and became hugely popular in Edwardian drawing rooms. Sensuous and melancholy, the collection gave English readers a heady, romanticized vision of the East while quietly voicing a woman’s frank feeling. This free PDF and EPUB edition gathers the complete sequence of lyrics.
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Listen to India’s Love Lyrics by Laurence Hope free online. The full audiobook (3 hr 38 min, 12 chapters, read by Helen Williford-Lower) streams free on this page.
India’s Love Lyrics (1901) is a public domain work.
| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Less Than the Dust, To the Unattainable, Early Pearly Morning, Reverie/Tamarind Tank, Verses, Song of Khan Zada, The Teak Forest | 20:49 | |
| 2 | Valgovind's Boat Song, Kashmiri Song, Zira In Captivity, Lament of Mahomed Akram, Appeal to the Stars, Reminiscence | 18:46 | |
| 3 | Story by Lalla-ji, the Priest, Request, Story of Udaipore, Valgovind's Song, Youth, When Love is Over, Golden Eyes | 17:17 | |
| 4 | Kotri, by the River, Farewell, Afridi Love, Yasmini, Ojira, Thoughts: Mahomed Aram, Prayer | 24:45 | |
| 5 | 'The Aloe, Memory, The First Lover, Khan Zada's Sonog, Deserted Gipsy's Song, The Plains, Lost Delight | 16:33 | |
| 6 | Unforgotten, Song of Faiz Ulla, Story of Lilivanti, Garden by the Bridge, Fate Knows No Tears, Verses: Faiz Ulla | 17:08 | |
| 7 | Two Songs by Sitara of Kashmir,The Girl From Baltistan, Palm Trees by the Sea, Song by Gulbaz, Kashmiri Song, Reverie of Ormuz the Persian, Sunstroke, Adoration | 21:54 | |
| 8 | Three Songs of Zahir-u-Din, Regret of the Ranee, Protest, Famine Song, The Window Overlooking the Harbor | 19:26 | |
| 9 | Back to the Border, Reverie: Zahir-u-Din, Sea Song, To the Hills!, Till I Wake, His Rubies, Song of Taj Mohamed | 13:49 | |
| 10 | The Garden of Kama, Camp Follower's Song, Song of the Colours, Lalila, On the City Wall, Love Lightly, No Rival Like the Past | 16:50 | |
| 11 | Verse, Lines, There is No Breeze, Malay Song, The Temple Dancing Girl, Hirah Singh's Farewell, Starlight | 14:39 | |
| 12 | Sampam, Song of the Devoted Slave, The Singer, Malaria, Fancy, Feroza, This Month the Almonds Bloom at Kandahar | 16:03 |
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