Words per minute #4: Ramanujan on Sex

July 6, 2008 in wordsperminute by Paul Currion | No comments

Her arms have the beauty
Of a gently moving bamboo.
Her eyes are full of peace.
She is faraway,
Her place not easy to reach.
My heart is frantic
With haste
A ploughman with a single ox
On land all wet
And ready for seed.

- AK Ramanujan, Poems of Love and War

(HT: William Dalrymple)

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