A form more rare than finest gold,
With lotus garland on thy head,
Like a sweet spring with bloom o’erspread,
Who art thou, fair one, what thy name,
Beauty, or Honour, Fortune, Fame,
Spirit, or nymph, or Queen of love
Descended from thy home above?
Bright as the dazzling jasmine shine
Thy small square teeth in level line.
Like two black stars aglow with light
Thine eyes are large and pure and bright.
Thy charms of smile and teeth and hair
And winning eyes, O thou most fair,
Steal all my spirit, as the flow
Of rivers mines the bank below.
How bright, how fine each flowing trees!
How firm those orbs beneath thy dress!
That dainty waist with ease were spanned,
Sweet lady, by a lover’s hand.
Mine eyes, O beauty, ne’er have seen
Goddess or nymph so fair of mien,
Or bright Gandharva’s heavenly dame,
Or woman of so perfect frame.
In youth’s soft prime thy years are few,
And earth has naught so fair to view.
I marvel one like thee in face

Ah fool, the hope thou hast is vain;
Thy dreams of bliss shall end in pain!
If torn from all I love by thee
Mv godlike lord no more I see,
Soon will I die and end my woes,
Not live the captive of my foes,.
Ah fool, with blinded eyes to choose
The evil and the good refuse!

Am I conquered by you in a combat between my husband and you, wherein you on announcing your name to my husband and truly showing your audacious audacity defeated my husband, and thus triumphing over me - or what? Tell me, you mousy demon…

A woman, that too a lonely one, that too the other man’s wife, that too an abduction, but not winning or wooing her… you knave, on your undertaking such a kind of deplorable deed, how unashamed are you?

Bollywood Valentine’s Day Music Challenge
Day 4 (A song that is your guilty pleasure go to song) → Hoth Rasiley (Shankar Mahadevan„ Shreya Ghosal in Welcome 2007)

Tera Jalwa Bala Ka Hai Jalwa
Meri Adayein Sab Se Nirali
Dil Ko Hila Ke Rakne Wali
Deewane Hai Tere Sare Chail Chabile

Heh self explanatory I think!

Bollywood Valentine’s Day Music Challenge
Day 1 (The most romantic song you know) → Rehna Tu (A. R. Rahman, Benny Dayal, Tanvi Shah in Delhi 6 2009)

Tujhe badalna na chahoon
Ratti bhar bhi sanam
Bina sajawat, milawat
Na zyaada na hi kam
Tuhje chaahon, jaisa hai tu

I think it is funny that this is my favorite romantic song not only because I know that there are far more romantic songs but also because as far as I read it, this song is not even about a significant other. In fact, from all my re watches it is a tribute to Delhi itself thought admittedly when I first heard this song before watching the video, I had thought that it was a love song. I just love everything about this song from the lyrics to the singers and the gorgeous picturisation.