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Describes a woman of crude manners and unattractive qualities, using harsh poetic satire. Reflects critique of lust or false appearances.
A king must reject a servant who is lazy, talkative, cruel, addicted, cunning, dissatisfied, and irreligious. A verse of statecraft and moral selectio...
A delicate portrayal of a timid, sensual woman whose very body, eyes, and breath respond to the sound of her beloved’s name. A love-saturated verse.
Exhaustion after repeated failures, loss, and travel leaves one drained. A universal human image of weariness after effort.
One should win over the timid, fools, women, children, the pious, wicked, and even animals with kindness and diplomacy, not force.
A spring-born, fragile, and romantic figure, wandering unwelcomed among women, consumed by old age. A lament of decline.
Describes the deeply sensuous gaze of a woman, filled with affection and heaviness, giving hints of pregnancy and feminine beauty.
Reminiscing a moment when the beloved’s lotus-like eyes slowly opened and a bee wandered near her ear—an intensely romantic image.
Her glance causes heat, delusion, dizziness—her mere look is like poison. A classic verse of overpowering beauty.
After a tiring journey, the weak limbs of a delicate woman collapse in a loose embrace—intimate, restful, tender.
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