somethingdarker | Potential Titles: Surdas

Magnify the longings of the mind - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 2: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The altar where I've poured myself out - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 3: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

As a seashell spawns a pearl - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 5: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Freely concede the game - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 6: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Squeezing drops from many moons - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 6: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Hide in sidelong glances - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 6: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Drinking of moonbeam pollen - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 10: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The gem in a cobra's hood - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 12: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Each word pouring deathless nectar - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 13: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Mirrors the harsh, round sun - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 16: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Bumblebees buzzing inside a lotus - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 16: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

To quaff down a forest fire - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 18: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

A cobra drawn in charcoal - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 18: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Of eyes parched with desire - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 20: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Medicine to cancel the fever - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 20: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Your rituals of sacrifice - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 29: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Radiate an amazing cloud of bees - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 33: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

And all the ganders flee - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 35: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Another offering for the fire - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 36: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Obtained a new immortal nectar - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 38: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Making us drink octaves of sound - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 38: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

By amassing a heap of glass - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 40: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

My heart is dyed a color so deep - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 44: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Refuse to accept constraint - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 45: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Burn in the fire of separation - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 45: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The pleasures of ambrosial words - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 46: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

With winsome looks and twisted glances - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 47: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

That forces Love himself to dance - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 47: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The object of Shiva's daily regimen - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 47: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Reflected in the sapphire mirror - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 51: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Surpass by far the orbit of autumn lotuses - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 53: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Attain the boundary of his brilliance - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 54: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Fathom that mine of every bliss - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 54: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Neither keeps to its side of the line - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 54: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Gone wandering with my eyes - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 56: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Flown off to the winds - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 56: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

As a root would wither without rain - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 56: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

An owl dazzled by a brilliant light - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 60: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Butter to blacken the family name - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 61: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Brandishing flowerbuds of desire - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 64: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Monarch of all three worlds - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 64: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

And abandon all this cleverness - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 68: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Never to measure its full depth - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 71: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The addiction of those eyes - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 73: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Close them behind eyelid doors - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 74: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The staff of beauty and the clothes of pride - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 75: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

These two eyes are very nimble thieves - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 78: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Lulled by his flute's sweet sound - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 78: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Without any payment they are sold - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 79: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Just as the color of water is fixed - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 82: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Armies of bees depart, dejected - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 84: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Where eternal poison has settled - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 84: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Pirated the redness of the sun - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 84: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The pearls in the part of her hair - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 85: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

A pair of suns in full array - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 85: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Announce your passion to the sun - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 90: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Fooled into pecking at millet grains - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 95: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Crimson from your all-night vigil - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 96: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Sliver-moons seen between the waves - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 99: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

A swarm of restless baby bees - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 101: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

In a courtyard of emeralds and pearls - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 101: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Crowned with all their moons - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 106: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Shredded his garments' edges - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 106: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Recalls the enemy of the deer - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 107: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Of foes who lift great mountains - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 107: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Dancing like a peacock in the woods - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 109: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

When night removes the brilliance of the sun - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 110: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

To install anger on the ramparts - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 111: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Flashes with an anger a thousand times brighter - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 115: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

All the immortals drink from the moon - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 119: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Only to someone worthy of trust - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 119: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Held the letter to their breast - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 123: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

That knife of sharp separation - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 124: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

What can a wordless cobra do - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 131: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Such coarse, arid words - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 132: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Fresh milk from a cup of leaves - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 132: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Who consorts with cheating hearts - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 139: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Dealing with walls being built on straw - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 139: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Urge on us something alien - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 140: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Our stock of tears is vanishing - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 141: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Pierced by the arrows of separation - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 144: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Scorched by the fire of separation - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 145: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Wounded by a double pain - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 148: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Set wisdom beyond my reach - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 148: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Appears in the raiment of kings - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 150: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

My eyes are dying of thirst - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 152: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Can't be contained by walls of sand - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 158: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Maddened by the winds of estrangement - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 160: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Cleverness in finely powdered form - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 161: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

While the sun is nothing but a foe - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 165: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The burning of this forest fire - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 169: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Spend my time rehearsing everything - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 171: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

If I'd known you'd break your word - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 172: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Come to bind us with a tourniquet - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 175: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

To pour his mantras on our heads - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 175: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Immersed in hopes of you - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 176: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Embellished with a nectar-dewdrop net - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 177: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The winds of our sighs speed the flow - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 178: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Floods the earth of our chests - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 178: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

That's our upside-down fate - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 178: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Lost to the assault of winter snows - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 179: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Rest perilously on the bank of time - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 180: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Crows have usurped the role of swans - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 181: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

A restless jackal is after the sacrifice - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 181 : Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Mount your chariot quickly - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 181: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

What insult is good enough - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 184: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Seething always with passion and pride - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 184: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Caught in many tangles - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 184: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Seized by some restless new desire - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 184: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

That kinsman to the wretched - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 186: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Shaped themselves into a strange string of eons - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 188: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Free my thoughts from this tangle - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 188: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The dust from his chariot wheels - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 189: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The magic that's enthralled the world - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 192: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Reigns over all the earth - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 194 : Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Desperately fleeing this frame - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 195: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Taught you the art of deceit - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 196: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

To every compass point and corner - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 200: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Recall him in times of distress - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 202: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

As witnessed by sages and gods - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 202: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

From the crocodile's grasp - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 202: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

To disperse his subjects' many fears - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 202: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Burns away the trials of the true - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 204: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

A fixed abode in the stars - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 205: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Breathed by the snake of time - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 206: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Leave only remorse in your hands - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 207: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Bound as I was in the snare of Time - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 209: The Poet's Petition and Praise 209" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Sifting the dust of road - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 210: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

An immovable mountain of error - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 212: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Capped with a fortress full of fear - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 212: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

My three claims for mercy - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 212: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Through the torture of water and blood - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 214: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

To feed on a hundred sins - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 214: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Suffering the spear of life - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 214: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The merciless axe of time - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 214: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Deer being mesmerized by a sound - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 218: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Every nuance hidden deep within - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 219: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Bear the barbs of ridicule - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 220: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Freed the elephant from his curse - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 221: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

In the fathomless waters of being - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 223: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

An owl refuses to believe in the sun - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 223: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The lion who peers down the well - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 224: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

An elephant mirrored in a slab of quartz - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 224: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Drinking the liquor of the senses - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 225: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The happy clatter of little goslings - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 225: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The burdens of earth disappear - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 227: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Can turn your gold to glass - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 230: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Return and dance to this world's tune - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 230: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Got a miser's beneficence - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 233: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

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