Love (காமத்துப்பால்) — The Post-marital love (கற்பியல்) — Desire for Reunion (புணர்ச்சிவிதும்பல்)

Kural 1281:
உள்ளக் களித்தலும் காண மகிழ்தலும்
கள்ளுக்கில் காமத்திற் குண்டு.
ullak kaliththalum kaana makizhdhalum
kallukkil kaamaththir kundu
English couplet:
Gladness at the thought, rejoicing at the sight,
Not palm-tree wine, but love, yields such delight.
Explanation: To please by thought and cheer by sight is peculiar, not to liquor but lust.

Kural 1282:
தினைத்துணையும் ஊடாமை வேண்டும் பனைத்துணையும்
காமம் நிறைய வரின்.
thinaiththunaiyum oodaamai vaendum panaith-thunaiyum
kaamam niraiya varin
English couplet:
When as palmyra tall, fulness of perfect love we gain,
Distrust can find no place small as the millet grain.
Explanation: If women have a lust that exceeds even the measure of the palmyra fruit, they will not desire (to feign) dislike even as much as the millet.

Kural 1283:
பேணாது பெட்பவே செய்யினும் கொண்கனைக்
காணா தமையல கண்.
paenaadhu petpavae seyyinum konkanaik
kaanaa thamaiyala kan
English couplet:
Although his will his only law, he lightly value me,
My heart knows no repose unless my lord I see.
Explanation: Though my eyes disregard me and do what is pleasing to my husband, still will they not be satisfied unless they see him.

Kural 1284:
ஊடற்கண் சென்றேன்மன் தோழி அதுமறந்து
கூடற்கண் சென்றதுஎன் னெஞ்சு.
ootarkan sendraen-man thoazhi adhumarandhu
koodarkan sendradhu-en nenju
English couplet:
My friend, I went prepared to show a cool disdain;
My heart, forgetting all, could not its love restrain.
Explanation: O my friend! I was prepared to feign displeasure but my mind forgetting it was ready to embrace him.

Kural 1285:
எழுதுங்கால் கோல்காணாக் கண்ணேபோல் கொண்கன்
பழிகாணேன் கண்ட இடத்து.
ezhudhungaal koalkaanaak kannaepoal konkan
pazhikaanaen kanda idaththu
English couplet:
The eye sees not the rod that paints it; nor can I
See any fault, when I behold my husband nigh.
Explanation: Like the eyes which see not the pencil that paints it, I cannot see my husband's fault (just) when I meet him.

Kural 1286:
காணுங்கால் காணேன் தவறாய காணாக்கால்
காணேன் தவறல் லவை.
kaanungaal kaanaen thavaraaya kaanaakkaal
kaanaen thavaral lavai
English couplet:
When him I see, to all his faults I 'm blind;
But when I see him not, nothing but faults I find.
Explanation: When I see my husband, I do not see any faults; but when I do not see him, I do not see anything but faults.

Kural 1287:
உய்த்தல் அறிந்து புனல்பாய் பவரேபோல்
பொய்த்தல் அறிந்தென் புலந்து.
uyththal arindhu punalpaai pavaraepoal
poiththal arindhen pulandhu
English couplet:
As those of rescue sure, who plunge into the stream,
So did I anger feign, though it must falsehood seem?.
Explanation: Like those who leap into a stream which they know will carry them off, why should a wife feign dislike which she knows cannot hold out long?.

Kural 1288:
இளித்தக்க இன்னா செயினும் களித்தார்க்குக்
கள்ளற்றே கள்வநின் மார்பு.
iliththakka innaa seyinum kaliththaarkkuk
kallatrae kalva-nin maarbu
English couplet:
Though shameful ill it works, dear is the palm-tree wine
To drunkards; traitor, so to me that breast of thine!.
Explanation: O you rogue! your breast is to me what liquor is to those who rejoice in it, though it only gives them an unpleasant disgrace.

Kural 1289:
மலரினும் மெல்லிது காமம் சிலர்அதன்
செவ்வி தலைப்படு வார்.
malarinum mellidhu kaamam silar-adhan
sevvi thalaippadu vaar
English couplet:
Love is tender as an opening flower. In season due
To gain its perfect bliss is rapture known to few.
Explanation: Sexual delight is more delicate than a flower, and few are those who understand its real nature.

Kural 1290:
கண்ணின் துனித்தே கலங்கினாள் புல்லுதல்
என்னினும் தான்விதுப் புற்று.
kannin thuniththae kalanginaal pulludhal
enninum thaanvidhup putru
English couplet:
Her eye, as I drew nigh one day, with anger shone:
By love o'erpowered, her tenderness surpassed my own.
Explanation: She once feigned dislike in her eyes, but the warmth of her embrace exceeded my own.