Grow Long, Blessed Night: Love Poems from Classical IndiaLike red earth and streaming rain, our loving hearts merged all by themselves. Captured in these centuries old verses are the intoxication of new love, the romance of courtship, and the longing of separated lovers. Here are the voices of older women advising their younger friends, the words of messengers conveying secrets between lovers, and the musings of lovers to themselves. Culled from large anthologies that date from as early as the first century