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Author note: (The Gandhi Sequence was composed in Quorn, South Australia, in the 1970s, with a number of sonnets connected by passages in a freer verse style. It was converted to a sonnet sequence in Istanbul in the 1980s. The closing acrostic sonnet is a paraphrase, composed in 1992.)
Includes
- John Ruskin i "The architect does more than theorize", single work poetry
- Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy i "When Gandhi read your words, the highly priced", single work poetry
- Ravjibhai Mehta Rajchandra i "Truth candle-lit the calm room of your mind,", single work poetry
- Herman Kallenbach i "Kallenbach was a wealthy architect,", single work poetry
- Jan Christian Smuts i "There was no hatred but they were not close!", single work poetry
- Rajkumar Shukla i "In our synthetic age indigo dyes", single work poetry
- Charles Fr Ere Andrews i "Threadbare from India Gokhale sent", single work poetry
- Gokhale i "Professor and ambassador, a proud", single work poetry
- Sarojini Naidu i "The poetess lived like an open house;", single work poetry
- Mirabehn i "Admiral Slade had fathered Madeleine,", single work poetry
- Mahadev Desai i "Your years flowed like calm writing in the book", single work poetry
- Kasturbhai i "Some trees shade all the garden. Other trees", single work poetry
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Mohammed Ali Jinnah
i
"Islamic convert with a dying dream",
1999
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Millefleurs : The Essence of a Thousand Flowers : A Collection of a Thousand Sonnets Composed between 1944 and 1999 1999; - Nathuram Godse i "Godse, for an assassin, seemed a cloud", single work poetry
- Kumari Manubehn Gandhi i "Child like a bud, a distant relative,", single work poetry
- Lord Louis Mountbatten i "The Viceroy came with India torn apart", single work poetry
- Jawaharlal Nehru i "Even on that last day Gandhi would unite", single work poetry
- Harilal i "Harilal was your eldest son, the most", single work poetry
- Vinoba Bhave i "A student of the Scriptures, you enthused", single work poetry
- King George V i "Symbol of all for which the Empire stood,", single work poetry
- Mohandras Ramachand Gandhi i "Rarely I glimpse you where these words record", single work poetry
- Mahatma Gandhi i "Mid all that radiance, chaos and despair,", single work poetry
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