Coloured Stars, versions of fifty Asiatic love poems

"There is an opportunity of knowing in brilliant English translations much of the poetry of China and Japan, of India and Persia; and Arabic poetry is accessible ; but I believe this book to be the first general English anthology of Asiatic verse. It is haphazard, as such books must be until some polyglot scholar gives a whole life to the matter. Variety was the only aim possible in a space so small, and therefore I have selected love poems of different centuries and of both primitive and subtle peoples."

By : Edward Powys Mathers (1892 - 1939)

00 - Foreword 01 - Shade of the Orange Leaves 02 - The Dalliance of the Leopards 03 - War Song 04 - Black Hair 05 - The Garden of Bamboos 06 - Eyes That Move Not 07 - Gazal 08 - Doubt 09 - Song 10 - My Desire 11 - Distich 12 - Song 13 - The Emperor 14 - Song 15 - Love Song 16 - Fardiyat 17 - Loving Things 18 - Being Together at Night 19 - The Peach Flower 20 - Leila 21 - Looking at the Moon 22 - Song 23 - A Love Rapture 24 - English Girl 25 - Gazal 26 - Lover's Jealousy 27 - Spring Cold 28 - Climbing Up to You 29 - Grief 30 - Song 31 - Last Time 32 - Mokcha 33 - Gazal 34 - Vai! Tchodjouklareum 35 - The Mirror 36 - Fardiyat 37 - At the East Gate 38 - Submission 39 - In the Palace 40 - A Thing Remembered 41 - The Most Virtuous Woman 42 - The Meeting 43 - The Drunken Rose 44 - The Tryst 45 - Zulma 46 - Rubaiyat 47 - Picture 48 - White 49 - Song 50 - The Red Lotus 51 - Envoy 52 - Four Notes