DEFAMATION WHY are those tears in your eyes, my child？ How horrid of them to be always scolding you for nothing？ You have stained your fingers and fac...
THE JUDGE SAY of him what you please, but I know my child's failings. I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child. How...
PLAYTHINGS CHILD, how happy you are sitting in the dust, playing with a broken twig all the morning. I smile at your play with that little bit of a br...
THE ASTRONOMER I ONLY said, "When in the evening the round full moon gets entangled among the branches of that Kadam tree, couldn't somebody ...
CLOUDS AND WAVES MOTHER, the folk who live up in the clouds call out to me—— “We play from the time we wake till the day ends. We play wit...
THE CHAMPA FLOWER SUPPOSING I became a champa flower, just for fun, and grew on a branch high up that tree, and shook in the wind with laughter and da...
FAIRYLAND IF people came to know where my king's palace is, it would vanish into the air. The walls are of white silver and the roof of shining go...
THE LAND OF THE EXILE MOTHER, the light has grown grey in the sky； I do not know what the time is. There is no fun in my play, so I have come to you. ...
THE RAINY DAY SULLEN clouds are gathering fast over the black fringe of the forest. O child, do not go out！ The palm trees in a row by the lake are sm...
PAPER BOATS DAY by day I float my paper boats one by one down the running stream. In big black letters I write my name on them and the name of the vil...