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Translation © by Uma Chakravarti and by Kumkum Roy
Mettika
Language: English  after the Pāḷi
Though I am weak and tired now [ ... ]
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Authorship:
- by Uma Chakravarti , "Mettika", from Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the early twentieth century, ed. by Susie J. Tharu and K. Lalita, p. 69, first published 1991, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
- by Kumkum Roy , "Mettika", from Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the early twentieth century, ed. by Susie J. Tharu and K. Lalita, p. 69, first published 1991, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Pāḷi by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Ben Moore (b. 1960), "Mettika" [soprano and piano], from So Free Am I (Seven Settings of Poems by Women), no. 7. [text not verified]
This text was added to the website: 2010-04-28
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Word count: 56