Song of a Passionate Lover (Yokut)
Reading tools
Contents
Search
Display
Soundscape
Focus mode
Listen
Offline
Save
Collection
The Path on the Rainbow, edited by George W. Cronyn, [1918], at sacred-texts.com
p. 188
SONG OF A PASSIONATE LOVER
FROM THE YOKUT
Come not near my songs,
You who are not my lover,
Lest from out that ambush
Leaps my heart upon you!
You who are not my lover,
Lest from out that ambush
Leaps my heart upon you!
When my songs are glowing
As an almond thicket
With the bloom upon it,
Lies my heart in ambush
All amid my singing;
Come not near my songs,
You who are not my lover!
Do not hear my songs,
You who are not my lover,
Over-sweet the heart is
Where my love has bruised it,
Breathe you not that fragrance,
You who are not my lover!
Do not stoop above my heart
With its languor on you,
Lest I should not know you
From my own belovèd,
Lest from out my singing
Leaps my heart upon you!
Ask PRATIBHA about this text
Answers quote this scripture directly and show their sources.
Reflect on this passage
Only you can see these notes. They stay on this device.