Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SANCTUARY: 1. THE FEAR OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU


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THE SANCTUARY: 1. THE FEAR OF LOVE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O could my love devise
Last Line: Of my own heart's desire!
Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love


O COULD my love devise
A shield for you from envious lips and eyes
That desecrate the sweetness of your days
With tumults of their praise!

O could my love design
A secret, sealed, invulnerable shrine
To hide you, happy and inviolate,
From covetous Time and Fate.

Love, I am drenched with fear
Lest the uncounted avarice of the year
Add to the triumph of all garnered grace
The rapture of your face!

I tremble with despair
Lest the far-journeying winds and sunbeams bear
Bright rumours of your luring brows and breath
Unto the groves of Death.

What sanctuary can I pledge
Whose very love of you is sacrilege?
O I would save you from the ravening fire
Of my own heart's desire!





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