Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUMMER WOODS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poet's Biography First Line: O I am tired of painted roofs and soft and silken floors Last Line: Like krishna and like radhika, encompassed with delight. Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Seasons; Summer; Joy; Delight | ||||||||
O I AM tired of painted roofs and soft and silken floors, And long for wind-blown canopies of crimson gulmohurs! O I am tired of strife and song and festivals and fame, And long to fly where cassia-woods are breaking into flame. Love, come with me where koels call from flowering glade and glen, Far from the toil and weariness, the praise and prayers of men. O let us fling all care away, and lie alone and dream 'Neath tangled boughs of tamarind and molsari and neem! And bind our brows with jasmine sprays and play on carven flutes, To wake the slumbering serpent-kings among the banyan roots, And roam at fall of eventide along the river's brink, And bathe in water-lily pools where golden panthers drink! You and I together, Love, in the deep blossoming woods Engirt with low-voiced silences and gleaming solitudes, Companions of the lustrous dawn, gay comrades of the night, Like Krishna and like Radhika, encompassed with delight. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE STUDY OF HAPPINESS by KENNETH KOCH SO MUCH HAPPINESS by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE CROWD CONDITIONS by JOHN ASHBERY I WILL NOT BE CLAIMED by MARVIN BELL THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#21): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S HAPPINESS by MARVIN BELL A CHALLENGE TO FATE by SAROJINI NAIDU |
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