Love (காமத்துப்பால்) The Post-marital love
When pretending to be angry with a loved one.
Penniyalaar Ellaarum Kannin PodhuunparNannen Paraththanin Maarpu
You are given to prostitution; all those who are born as womankind enjoy you with their eyes in an ordinary way I will not embrace you
From thy regard all womankind Enjoys an equal grace; O thou of wandering fickle mind, I shrink from thine embrace
G. U. Pope, 1886
Ooti Irundhemaath Thumminaar YaamdhammaiNeetuvaazh Kenpaak Karindhu
When I continued to be sulky he sneezed and thought I would (then) wish him a long life
One day we silent sulked; he sneezed: The reason well I knew; He thought that I, to speak well pleased, Would say, 'Long life to you!'
G. U. Pope, 1886
Kottup Pooch Chootinum KaayumOruththiyaik Kaattiya Sootineer Endru
Even if I were adorned with a garland of branch-flowers, she would say I did so to show it to another woman
I wreathed with flowers one day my brow, The angry tempest lowers; She cries, 'Pray, for what woman now Do you put on your flowers?'
G. U. Pope, 1886
Yaarinum Kaadhalam Endrenaa OotinaalYaarinum Yaarinum Endru
When I said I loved her more than any other woman, she said "more than others, yes, more than others," and remained sulky
'I love you more than all beside,' 'T was thus I gently spoke;'What all, what all?' she instant cried; And all her anger woke
G. U. Pope, 1886
Immaip Pirappil Piriyalam EndrenaakKannirai Neerkon Tanal
When I said I would never part from her in this life her eyes were filled with tears
'While here I live, I leave you not,' I said to calm her fearsShe cried, 'There, then, I read your thought'; And straight dissolved in tears
G. U. Pope, 1886
Ullinen Endrenmar Renmarandheer EndrennaipPullaal Pulaththak Kanal
When I said I had remembered her, she said I had forgotten her and relaxing her embrace, began to feign dislike
'Each day I called to mind your charms,' 'O, then, you had forgot,'She cried, and then her opened arms, Forthwith embraced me not
G. U. Pope, 1886
Vazhuththinaal Thumminen Aaka AzhiththazhudhaalYaarullith Thummineer Endru
When I sneezed she blessed me, but at once changed (her mind) and wept, asking, "At the thought of whom did you sneeze?"
She hailed me when I sneezed one day; But straight with anger seized, She cried; 'Who was the woman, pray, Thinking of whom you sneezed?'
G. U. Pope, 1886
Thummuch Cheruppa Azhudhaal NumarullalEmmai Maraiththiro Endru
When I suppressed my sneezing, she wept saying, "I suppose you (did so) to hide from me your own people's remembrance of you"
And so next time I checked my sneeze; She forthwith wept and cried,(That woman difficult to please), 'Your thoughts from me you hide'
G. U. Pope, 1886
Thannai Unarththinum Kaayum PirarkkumneerInneerar Aakudhir Endru
'I see', quoth she, 'to other folks How you are wondrous kind' Even when I try to remove her dislike, she is displeased and says, "This is the way you behave
I then began to soothe and coax, To calm her jealous mind;'I see', quoth she, 'to other folks How you are wondrous kind
G. U. Pope, 1886
Ninaiththirundhu Nokkinum Kaayum AnaiththuneerYaarulli Nokkineer Endru
Even when I look on her contemplating (her beauty), she is displeased and says, "With whose thought have you (thus) looked on my person?"
I silent sat, but thought the more, And gazed on her Then sheCried out, 'While thus you eye me o'er, Tell me whose form you see'
G. U. Pope, 1886
