Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Promote cycling; respect cyclists.
Make tracks for it on busy roads.
It makes no smoke and save petrol.
It promotes health. Practise cycling
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Love is born of affinity.
All organisms have got it.
Each cell in them exhibits it.
Molecules stones too have it.
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Pyramus and Thisbe were close neighbours.
Pyramus and Thisbe were intimate lovers.
His parents and her parents were rivals.
They lived in the city of Babylon.
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It is a fictional tragic love story.
Qays ibn aL Mulawwah was just a boy
When he fell in love with Layla al Aamrriya
In the Arab region in 7th century.
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Guinevere was the wife of King Arthur,
The legendary ruler of Briton,
Who led the defense of Briton ably
Against Saxon invaders in the late
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The legend of cute Queen Padmavati
Is a tale of lust and war, the tragic.
The epic poem of Padmavati was written
By Malik Muhammad Jayasi far back
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The fictional tale of Anakali
And Salim has been adopted into arts,
Literature and cinema in India
From the late seventeenth century onwards.
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Peter Abelard was a French philosopher.
Heloise was the niece of Fulbert, a canon.
He was born in ten thousand seventy-nine
And she was twenty years younger to him.
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‘You shall be crowned the Queen of France and sit
On the throne by the side your husband.'
Said the priest astrologer when she was seven.
Josephine was then just a maid servant,
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Edwina was patrilineally descended
From the Earls of Shaftesbury.
When Lord Louis Mountbatten met Edwina,
She was a leading member of London
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