Coloured Stars: versions of fifty Asiatic love poems

LibriVox recording of Coloured Stars: versions of fifty Asiatic love poems by Edward Powys Mathers. Read in English by Nemo; Amy Gramour "There is an opportunity of knowing in brilliant English translations much of the poetry of China and Japan, of India and Persia; and Arabic poetry is accessible ; but I believe this book to be the first general English anthology of Asiatic verse. It is haphazard, as such books must be until some polyglot scholar gives a whole life to the matter. Variety was the only aim possible in a space so small, and therefore I have selected love poems of different centu