Calisas

A poem like Donne's Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse is a hymn in the sense that it is a song of praise, a song in which the poet calls upon God to cure him of his sickness. It reminds us of Hanumanastaka in which the poet refers to his personal sufferings,but, whereas the Hindi Calisas is an utterly simple poem,Donne's is 'stronglined' and hard.
To be continued.