Love (காமத்துப்பால்) The Post-marital love
When reading a partner's feelings.
Karappinung Kaiyikan Thollaanin UnkanUraikkal Uruvadhon Runtu
Though you would conceal (your feelings), your painted eyes would not, for, transgressing (their bounds), they tell (me) something
Thou hid'st it, yet thine eye, disdaining all restraint, Something, I know not, what, would utter of complaint
G. U. Pope, 1886
Kanniraindha Kaarikaik Kaamperdhot PedhaikkupPenniraindha Neermai Peridhu
Unusually great is the female simplicity of your maid whose beauty fills my eyes and whose shoulders resemble the bamboo
The simple one whose beauty fills mine eye, whose shoulders curveLike bambu stem, hath all a woman's modest sweet reserve
G. U. Pope, 1886
Maniyil Thikazhdharu Noolpol MatandhaiAniyil Thikazhvadhondru Untu
There is something that is implied in the beauty of this woman, like the thread that is visible in a garland of gems
As through the crystal beads is seen the thread on which they 're strungSo in her beauty gleams some thought cannot find a tongue
G. U. Pope, 1886
Mukaimokkul Ulladhu Naatrampol PedhaiNakaimokkul Ulladhon Runtu
There is something in the unmatured smile of this maid like the fragrance that is contained in an unblossomed bud
As fragrance in the opening bud, some secret liesConcealed in budding smile of this dear damsel's eyes
G. U. Pope, 1886
Seridhoti Seydhirandha Kallam UrudhuyarTheerkkum Marundhondru Utaiththu
The well-meant departure of her whose bangles are tight-fitting contains a remedy that can cure my great sorrow
The secret wiles of her with thronging armlets decked, Are medicines by which my raising grief is checked
G. U. Pope, 1886
Peridhaatrip Petpak Kalaththal AridhaatriAnpinmai Soozhva Thutaiththu
The embrace that fills me with comfort and gladness is capable of enduring (my former) sorrow and meditating on his want of love
While lovingly embracing me, his heart is only grieved:It makes me think that I again shall live of love bereaved
G. U. Pope, 1886
Thannan Thuraivan Thanandhamai NamminumMunnam Unarndha Valai
My bracelets have understood before me the (mental) separation of him who rules the cool seashore
My severance from the lord of this cool shore, My very armlets told me long before
G. U. Pope, 1886
Nerunatruch Chendraarem Kaadhalar YaamumEzhunaalem Meni Pasandhu
It was but yesterday my lover departed (from me); and it is seven days since my complexion turned sallow
My loved one left me, was it yesterday?Days seven my pallid body wastes away
G. U. Pope, 1886
Thotinokki Mendholum Nokki AtinokkiAqdhaan Tavalsey Thadhu
She looked at her bracelets, her tender shoulders, and her feet; this was what she did there (significantly)
She viewed her tender arms, she viewed the armlets from them slid; She viewed her feet: all this the lady did
G. U. Pope, 1886
Penninaal Penmai Utaiththenpa KanninaalKaamanoi Solli Iravu
To express their love-sickness by their eyes and resort to begging bespeaks more than ordinary female excellence
To show by eye the pain of love, and for relief to pray, Is womanhood's most womanly device, men say
G. U. Pope, 1886
