The elements, the conscious life, the mind,
The unseen vital force, the nine strange gates
Of the body, and the five domains of sense;
Desire, dislike, pleasure and pain, and thought
Deep-woven, and persistency of being;
These all are wrought on Matter by the Soul!
Category: Poetry
Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems by Henry Hart Milman
Lived of yore, a raja, Nala,—Virasena’s mighty son,
Gifted he with every virtue,—beauteous, skilled in taming steeds:
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Thus measuring things in Heav’n by things on Earth
At thy request, and that thou maist beware
By what is past, to thee I have reveal’d
What might have else to human Race bin hid;