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Hindi has a rich legacy of poetry. There are several genres of poetry based on Ras, Chhand and Alankar (e.g., Shringar, Karun, Veer, Hāsya, etc.). [13] Hasya Kavita is humorous comic poetry in Hindi. It is particularly famous due to Hindi kavi sammelans. Bal kavita is children's rhymes in Hindi. Many attempts have been made to document Hindi ...
(You cannot) teach an old dog new tricks; You cannot unscramble eggs; You cannot win them all; You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar; You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain; You pay your money and you take your choice; Youth is wasted on the young; You may/might as well be hanged/hung for a ...
Doha is a very old "verse-format" of Indian poetry.It is an independent verse, a couplet, the meaning of which is complete in itself. [1] As regards its origin, Hermann Jacobi had suggested that the origin of doha can be traced to the Greek Hexametre, that it is an amalgam of two hexametres in one line.
Indian English poetry is the oldest form of Indian English literature. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English poetry followed by Rabindranath Tagore , Sri Aurobindo , Sarojini Naidu , Michael Madhusudan Dutt , and Toru Dutt , among others.
Come along and grow old with me; the best is yet to be. [1] Hours fly, Flowers die. New days, New ways, Pass by. Love stays. [2] Hours fly, Flowers bloom and die. Old days, Old ways pass. Love stays. I only tell of sunny hours. I count only sunny hours. The clouds shall pass and the sun will shine on us once more.
Gunga Din" (/ ˌ ɡ ʌ ŋ ɡ ə ˈ d iː n /) is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling set in British India. The poem was published alongside "Mandalay" and "Danny Deever" in the collection "Barrack-Room Ballads". The poem is much remembered for its final line "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din". [1]
Godaan (Hindi: गोदान, Urdu: گودان, romanized: gōdān, lit. 'cow donation') is a Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand. It was first published in 1936 and is considered one of the greatest Hindi novels of modern Indian literature. Themed around the socio-economic deprivation as well as the exploitation of the village poor, the novel ...
The Old English poetry which has received the most attention deals with what has been termed the Germanic heroic past. Scholars suggest that Old English heroic poetry was handed down orally from generation to generation. [42] As Christianity began to appear, re-tellers often recast the tales of Christianity into the older heroic stories.