Love (காமத்துப்பால்) — The Post-marital love (கற்பியல்) — Sad Memories (நினைந்தவர்புலம்பல்)

Kural 1201:
உள்ளினும் தீராப் பெருமகிழ் செய்தலால்
கள்ளினும் காமம் இனிது.
ullinum theeraap perumakizh seydhalaal
kallinum kaamam inidhu
English couplet:
From thought of her unfailing gladness springs,
Sweeter than palm-rice wine the joy love brings.
Explanation: Sexuality is sweeter than liquor, because when remembered, it creates a most rapturous delight

Kural 1202:
எனைத்தொனறு இனிதேகாண் காமம்தாம் வீழ்வார்
நினைப்ப வருவதொன்று ஏல்.
enaiththonaru inidhe-kaan kaamamdhaam veezhvaar
ninaippa varuvadhondru ael
English couplet:
How great is love! Behold its sweetness past belief!
Think on the lover, and the spirit knows no grief.
Explanation: Even to think of one's beloved gives one no pain. Sexuality, in any degree, is always delightful.

Kural 1203:
நினைப்பவர் போன்று நினையார்கொல் தும்மல்
சினைப்பது போன்று கெடும்.
ninaippavar poandru ninaiyaarkol thummal
sinaippadhu poandru kedum
English couplet:
A fit of sneezing threatened, but it passed away;
He seemed to think of me, but do his fancies stray?
Explanation: I feel as if I am going to sneeze but do not, and (therefore) my beloved is about to think (of me) but does not.

Kural 1204:
யாமும் உளேங்கொல் அவர்நெஞ்சத்து எந்நெஞ்சத்து
ஓஒ உளரே அவர்.
yaamum ulaengol avarnenjaththu en-nenjaththu
ohoh ulare avar
English couplet:
Have I a place within his heart!
From mine, alas! he never doth depart.
Explanation: He continues to abide in my soul, do I likewise abide in his ?.

Kural 1205:
தம்நெஞ்சத்து எம்மைக் கடிகொண்டார் நாணார்கொல்
எம்நெஞ்சத்து ஓவா வரல்.
thamnenjaththu emmaik katikondaar naanaarkol
emnenjaththu ovaa varal
English couplet:
Me from his heart he jealously excludes:
Hath he no shame who ceaseless on my heart intrudes?.
Explanation: He who has imprisoned me in his soul, is he ashamed to enter incessantly into mine.

Kural 1206:
மற்றியான் என்னுளேன் மன்னோ அவரொடியான்
உற்றநாள் உள்ள உளேன்.
matriyaan ennulen manno avaroti-yaan
utranaal ulla ulen
English couplet:
How live I yet? I live to ponder o'er
The days of bliss with him that are no more.
Explanation: I live by remembering my (former) intercourse with him; if it were not so, how could I live ?.

Kural 1207:
மறப்பின் எவனாவன் மற்கொல் மறப்பறியேன்
உள்ளினும் உள்ளம் சுடும்.
marappin evanaavan markol marappariyaen
ullinum ullam sudum
English couplet:
If I remembered not what were I then? And yet,
The fiery smart of what my spirit knows not to forget!.
Explanation: I have never forgotten (the pleasure); even to think of it burns my soul; could I live, if I should ever forget it ?.

Kural 1208:
எனைத்து நினைப்பினும் காயார் அனைத்தன்றோ
காதலர் செய்யும் சிறப்பு.
enaiththu ninaippinum kaayaar anaiththandroa
kaadhalar seyyum sirappu
English couplet:
My frequent thought no wrath excites. It is not so?
This honour doth my love on me bestow.
Explanation: He will not be angry however much I may think of him; is it not so much the delight my beloved affords me ? .

Kural 1209:
விளியுமென் இன்னுயிர் வேறல்லம் என்பார்
அளியின்மை ஆற்ற நினைந்து.
viliyumen innuyir vaerallam enpaar
aliyinmai aatra ninaindhu
English couplet:
Dear life departs, when his ungracious deeds I ponder o'er,
Who said erewhile, 'We're one for evermore'.
Explanation: My precious life is wasting away by thinking too much on the cruelty of him who said we were not different.

Kural 1210:
விடாஅது சென்றாரைக் கண்ணினால் காணப்
படாஅதி வாழி மதி.
vitaa-adhu sendraaraik kanninaal kaanap
pataa-adhi vaazhi madhi
English couplet:
Set not; so may'st thou prosper, moon! that eyes may see
My love who went away, but ever bides with me.
Explanation: May you live, O Moon! Do not set, that I mine see him who has departed without quitting my soul.