The Bengali Book of English Verse

"The Bengali Book of English Verse" is a collection of historical poems, representing about one hundred years of poetical effort. It has its origin in England's introduction of Western education into India. This book was written by various authors and was selected and arranged by Theodore Douglas Dunn, a Scottish oriental scholar and an anthologist of Indian poetry in English. Table of Contents: Asi Prasad Ghose: Dasahara To a Young Hindu Widow Storm and Rain To a Dead Crow Rajnarain Dutt: Song from «Osmyn» Michael Madhusudan Dutt: The Captive Ladie Sonnets Hur Chunder Dutt: Tarra Baee The Flight of Humayun Akbar's Dying Charge Sonnet—India The Rakhi Govin Chunder Dutt: Song from the Bengali To Lord Canning A Farewell to Romance Lines Wordsworth's Poems Home Night on the Ganges Omesh Chunder Dutt: The Chief of Pokurna The Hindu Wife to her Husband Hymn to Shiva Sonnets—War Sonnets—Peace Nobo Kissen Ghose (Ram Sharma): In Memoriam, Michael Dutt Portraits from «The Last Day» Hymn to Durga Robert Knight Maharajah Sir Jotindra Mohun Tagore: An Indian Wreath The Rajput Soldier's Farewell The Gopees' Address to the Kokil Origin of the Kaminee Flower Greece Chunder Dutt: The Maid of Roopnagore Gibraltar Fire Hunters The Hills Samarsi On an Old Romaunt The Terai Shoshee Chunder Dutt: Sivajee The Warrior's Return Address to the Ganges The Requiem of Timour Jelaludeen Khiliji Toru Dutt: Jogadhya Uma Sonnet—The Lotus Our Casuarina Tree Morning Serenade Romesh Chunder Dutt: The Legend of Balaki Mahabharata – Gandhari's Lament Funeral Rites Narendra Nath Dutta (Swami Vivekananda): The Cup Roby Dutt: On Tibet To Britain Sir Asutosh Mookerjee Indians at the Front Profulla Ranjan Das: Refusal The Quest Youth and Age A Lament Sarojini Naidu: The Pardah Nashin To a Buddha Seated on a Lotus The Gift of India Suttee A Challenge to Fate Manmohan Ghose: A Song of Britannia Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose London Baby Poplar, Beech, and Weeping Willow Myvanwy The Garden Passion Elegy