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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Keyword: naidu Matches Found: 120 A CHALLENGE TO FATE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Why will you vex me with your futile conflict Last Line: My frail, serene, indomitable soul. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny A LOVE SONG FROM THE NORTH, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me no more of thy love, papeeha Last Line: To me, forsaken of love? Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love A PERSIAN LOVE SONG, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love! I know not why, when you are glad Last Line: Dear love, that you are I! Subject(s): Love A RAJPUT LOVE SONG, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love! Were you a basil-wreath to twine among Last Line: And bear me to the fragrance of my beloved's breast! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers A SONG FROM SHIRAZ, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The singers of shiraz are feasting afar Last Line: Thy goblet of love, o mohamed ali! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Silence; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness A SONG IN SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wild bees that rifle the mango blossom Last Line: Their lips have tasted the purple sea. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Old Age; Spring ALONE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alone, o love, I seek the blossoming glades Last Line: Shall I attain the sanctuary of thy face? Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness AN ANTHEM OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Two hands are we to serve thee, o our mother Last Line: Towards a great, divinely-destined goal. Subject(s): Love; Worship AN INDIAN LOVE SONG (WRITTEN TO AN INDIAN TUNE), by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lift up the veils that darken the delicate moon of thy Last Line: Redeem with his tears the memoried sorrow that sullied a bygone age. Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Roses ASHOKA BLOSSOM, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If a lovely maiden's foot Last Line: And their wild perfume. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Male-female Relations AT DAWN, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Children, my children, the daylight is breaking Last Line: Anoint with your love or arraign with your pardon? Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness AT TWILIGHT (ON THE WAY TO GOLCONDA), by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weary, I sought kind death among the rills Last Line: And hope that conquers immemorial hate. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Weariness; Dead, The; Fatigue ATONEMENT, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in a lonely garden on the hill Last Line: O let my death atone! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Shadows; Dead, The AWAKE! (TO MOHAMED ALI JINNAH), by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Waken, o mother! Thy children implore thee Last Line: Hearken! O queen and o goddess, we hail thee! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Goddesses & Gods; Memory; Mythology; Worship; Dead, The BANGLE-SELLERS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bangle-sellers are we who bear Last Line: And worships the gods at her husband's side. Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Love - Marital; Worship; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love BELLS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Anklet-bells! Frail anklet-bells! Last Line: And peace for suffering hearts that die! Subject(s): Bells; Death; Melodies; Praise; Prayer; Dead, The CAPRICE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You held a wild-flower in your finger-tips Last Line: Alas! It was my soul. Subject(s): Abandonment; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Desertion; Male-female Relations CHAMPAK BLOSSOMS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Amber petals, ivory petals Last Line: To ravish the winds of spring. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love; Spring COROMANDEL FISHERS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rise, brothers, rise; the waking skies pray to the morning light DEATH AND LIFE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death stroked my hair and whispered tenderly Last Line: "of song or service for my country's need?" Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DESTINY, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It chanced on the noon of an april day Last Line: Who cares if a woman's heart be broken? Subject(s): Abandonment; Disillusion; Fate; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Desertion; Destiny; Male-female Relations DIRGE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What longer need hath she of loveliness Last Line: And flowering springs that mock her empty years? Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The ECSTASY, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart, o my heart! Lo, the springtime is waking Last Line: To-day it is spring! ECSTASY, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cover mine eyes, o my love! FAREWELL, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, o eager faces that surround me Last Line: Shrine of dead dream! O temple of my tears! Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Separation; Isolation; Parting GOLDEN CASSIA, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O brilliant blossoms that strew my way Last Line: The glimmering ghosts of a bygone dream. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Spring GUERDON, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To field and forest Last Line: The rapture of song! Subject(s): Brides; Happiness; Love; Love - Marital; Spring; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love HINDU CRADLE SONG, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From groves of spice Last Line: With soft caress %a little lovely dream HYMN TO INDRA, LORD OF RAIN, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, who rousest the voice of the thunder Last Line: Hearken, o lord of rain! Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Pride; Singing & Singers; Worship; Self-esteem; Self-respect IMPERIAL DELHI, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imperial city! Dowered with sovereign grace Last Line: Before whose shrine the spells of death are vain. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Memory; Mourning; Rest; Dead, The; Bereavement IN A TIME OF FLOWERS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love! Do you know the spring is here Last Line: To welcome the new-born year? Subject(s): Birth; Flowers; Spring; Child Birth; Midwifery IN PRAISE OF GULMOHUR BLOSSOMS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What can rival your lovely hue Last Line: From a true wife's funeral pyre? Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Praise; Spring IN REMEMBRANCE (VIOLET CLARKE - DIED MARCH 21, 1909), by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: With eager knowledge of our ancient lore Last Line: Of your sweet wind-blown and love-garnered leaves. Subject(s): Memory IN SALUTATION TO THE ETERNAL PEACE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men say the world is full of fear and hate Last Line: O intimate essence of eternity! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Peace; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life IN THE NIGHT, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, o my little ones, sleep Last Line: Rich with the tears that we weep. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Sleep; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness INDIAN DANCERS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eyes ravished with rapture, celestially panting, what passionate spirits Variant Title(s): Eastern Dancer Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers INDIAN GIPSY, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In tattered robes that hoard a glittering trace INVINCIBLE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fate, betwixt the grinding-stones of pain Last Line: Save bitter buds of doom. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery JUNE SUNSET, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here shall my heart find its haven of calm Last Line: To herald a rising moon. Subject(s): Love; Summer KALI THE MOTHER, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All voices: o terrible and tender and divine! Last Line: Kali! Maheshwari! Subject(s): Death; Memory; Prayer; Worship; Dead, The LAKSHMI, THE LOTUS-BORN; GODDESS OF FORTUNE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who didst rise like a pearl from the ocean Last Line: Hearken, o lotus-born! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology LONGING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round the sadness of my days Last Line: Reach the comfort of your breast? Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Sanctuaries; Solitude; Loneliness LOVE AND DEATH, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed my love had set thy spirit free Last Line: Or save thee from the swift decrees of death. Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The MEDLEY; A KASHMERI SONG, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poppy grows on the roof-top Last Line: And peace in the hands of death. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MEMORIAL VERSES: 1. YA MAHBUB!, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are these the streets that I used to know Last Line: And the dreams I cherished ... When you were king! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Love; Memory; Dead, The MEMORIAL VERSES: 2. GOKHALE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heroic heart! Lost hope of all our days! Last Line: Upbuild the temple of her unity. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Heroism; India; Memory; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines MEMORIAL VERSES: 3. IN SALUTATION TO MY FATHER'S SPIRIT, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, farewell, o brave and tender sage Last Line: Lost in the rapture of the cosmic soul. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Heaven; Memory; Dead, The; Parting; Paradise NASTURTIUMS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poignant and subtle and bitter perfume Last Line: And sweetest sakuntala's magical tears. Subject(s): Nasturtiums NIGHTFALL IN THE CITY OF HYDERABAD, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: See how the speckled sky burns like a pigeon's throat POET TO DEATH, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tarry a while, o death, I cannot die Subject(s): Death PURDAH NASHIN, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her life is a revolving dream SILVER TEARS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many tributes life hath brought me Last Line: For my wild heart's suffering. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Melancholy; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection SLUMBER SONG FOR SUNALINI, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the golden, glowing Last Line: Sleep, my sunalini, sleep! Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Folk Songs - Indian; Heaven; Rest; Saints; Death - Babies; Paradise SOLITUDE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us rise, o my heart, let us go where the twilight / is calling Last Line: In petals of splendour to worship the lord of the world. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SONG OF RADHA THE MILKMAID, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I carried my curds to the mathura fair Last Line: How brightly the river was flowing! Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Singing & Singers; Worship SONGS OF MY CITY: 1. IN A LATTICED BALCONY, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I feed thee, beloved? Last Line: With the delicate silence of love. Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Love SONGS OF MY CITY: 2. IN THE BAZAARS OF HYDERABAD, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What do you sell, o ye merchants? Last Line: To perfume the sleep of the dead. Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Singing & Singers SPINNING SONG, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sisters plucked green leaves at morn Last Line: For the beauty of your eyes. Subject(s): Beauty; Festivals; Flowers; Folk Songs - Indian; Music & Musicians; Spring; Fairs; Pageants SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young leaves grow green on the banyan twigs Last Line: An idyl of love and spring. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Poppies; Seasons; Spring SUMMER WOODS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text 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 SUTTEE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lamp of my life, the lips of death THE BIRD OF TIME, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O bird of time on your fruitful bough Last Line: And the pride of a soul that has conquered fate. Subject(s): Birds; Nature THE BROKEN WING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great dawn breaks, the mournful night is past Last Line: And scale the stars upon my broken wing! Subject(s): Life; Rebirth; Spring THE CALL OF SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Children, my children, the spring wakes anew Last Line: Like glad-hearted children together. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Spring THE CALL TO EVENING PRAYER, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Allah ho akbar! Allah ho akbar! Last Line: Naray'yana! Naray'yana! Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Religion; Women - Bible; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Virgin Mary; Theology THE CHALLENGE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who dost quell in thy victorious tide Last Line: The radiant silence of my sleepless pain. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The THE COMING OF SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O spring! I cannot run to greet Last Line: Forgive me, o my comrade spring! Subject(s): Birth; Leaves; Life; Nature; Spring; Child Birth; Midwifery THE DANCE OF LOVE (WRITTEN FOR MADAME LIZA LEHMANN), by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The music sighs and slumbers Last Line: Love's ecstasy and pain. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hearts; Love; Music & Musicians THE FAERY ISLE OF JANJIRA; TO HER HIGHNESS NAZLI RAFFIA, BEGUM JANJIRA, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fain would I dwell in your faery kingdom Last Line: When truth shall conquer and love prevail. Subject(s): Love; Peace; Spring THE FESTIVAL OF MEMORY, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Doth rapture hold a feast Last Line: Thy sacrament and shrine. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE FESTIVAL OF SERPENTS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shining ones awake, we seek your chosen temples Last Line: Where life and death and sorrow and ecstasy are one. Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Praise; Prayer THE FLUTE-PLAYER OF BRINDABAN, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why didst thou play thy matchless flute Last Line: The nectar of thy flute! Subject(s): Death; Melodies; Memory; Music & Musicians; Dead, The THE GARDEN VIGIL, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the deep silence of the garden-bowers Last Line: May in thy flame adore his hidden face. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Rest; Silence; Graveyards; Dead, The THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 1. THE OFFERING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were beauty mine, beloved, I would bring it Last Line: And kiss the shadow of love's passing feet. Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Passion THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 2. THE FEAST, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bring no fragrant sandal-paste Last Line: All the secret of your tears. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory; Old Age THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 3. ECSTASY, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let spring illume the western hills with blossoming / brands of fire Last Line: Swept o'er the flood-gates of my life to drown my waiting heart! Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love; Passion; Spring THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 4. THE LUTE-SONG, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why need you a burnished mirror of gold Last Line: In the flame of immutable years! Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Passion; Dead, The THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 5. IF YOU CALL ME, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you call me I will come Last Line: Fearless what betide. Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 6. THE SINS OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive me the sin of mine eyes Last Line: O pardon the sin of my heart! Subject(s): Forgiveness; Hearts; Love; Clemency THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 7. THE DESIRE OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O could I brew my soul like wine Last Line: Into a god? Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 8. THE VISION OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love! My foolish heart and eyes Last Line: And you the mystic pang of death. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Memory; Dead, The THE GIFT OF INDIA, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is there aught you need that my hands withhold Last Line: Remember the blood of thy martyred sons! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE HUSSAIN SAAGAR, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The young dawn woos thee with his amorous grace Last Line: O lake, o living image of my soul. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Soul; Dead, The THE IMAM BARA: 1, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the sombre shadows Last Line: Ali! Hassan! Hussain! Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Shadows; Dead, The; Bereavement THE IMAM BARA: 2, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come from this tomb of shadows Last Line: Ali! Hassan! Hussain! Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Graves; Mourning; Silence; Cadavers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement THE JOY OF THE SPRINGTIME, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Springtime, o springtime, what is your essence Last Line: The roots of delight in the heart of the earth? Subject(s): Happiness; Spring; Joy; Delight THE LOTUS; TO M.K. GANDHI, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mystic lotus, sacred and sublime Last Line: Coeval with the lords of life and death? Subject(s): Death; Mysticism; Dead, The THE MAGIC OF SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I buried my heart so deep, so deep Last Line: "is it the spring, the spring?" Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Rebirth; Spring; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE OLD WOMAN, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lonely old woman sits out in the street Last Line: "muhammad-ar-rasul-allah." Subject(s): Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue THE PATH OF TEARS: 1. THE SORROW OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you turn your face away? Last Line: Or the thrall of the old desire? Subject(s): Death; Desire; Hearts; Love; Memory; Old Age; Dead, The THE PATH OF TEARS: 2. THE SILENCE OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since thus I have endowed you with the whole Last Line: A load of passionate silence and despair. Subject(s): Despair; Hearts; Love; Passion; Regret THE PATH OF TEARS: 3. THE MENACE OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long, o love, shall ruthless pride avail you Last Line: As you lie spent and broken at my feet! Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Sorrow; Sadness THE PATH OF TEARS: 4. LOVE'S GUERDON, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fierce were the wounds you struck me, o my love Last Line: Crowned in a lonely rapture of renown. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Pain; Relationships; Suffering; Misery THE PATH OF TEARS: 5. IF YOU WERE DEAD, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you were dead I should not weep! Last Line: O love, at last! Subject(s): Fate; Hearts; Love; Destiny THE PATH OF TEARS: 6. SUPPLICATION, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, it were not such deep unmeasured wrong Last Line: A gift of tears to save my stricken soul! Subject(s): Compassion; Grief; Love; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness THE PATH OF TEARS: 7. THE SLAYER, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, if at dawn some passer-by should say Last Line: "with the swift spear of grief." Subject(s): Grief; Love; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness THE PATH OF TEARS: 8. THE SECRET, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They come, sweet maids and men with shining tribute Last Line: O love, that I am dead! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Mourning; Bereavement THE PEARL, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long shall it suffice Last Line: Return unblest into the primal sea? Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Praise; Rebirth THE PRAYER OF ISLAM, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We praise thee, o compassionate! Last Line: Ya rahman! Ya raheem! Subject(s): Compassion; Death; Memory; Prayer; Shadows; Dead, The THE SANCTUARY: 1. THE FEAR OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O could my love devise Last Line: Of my own heart's desire! Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love THE SANCTUARY: 2. THE ILLUSION OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, you may be as all men say Last Line: The very vision of god's dwelling-place. Subject(s): Fate; Future Life; Hearts; Love; Destiny; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE SANCTUARY: 3. THE WORSHIP OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crush me, o love, betwixt thy radiant fingers Last Line: And praise thee for my death! Subject(s): Death; Love; Worship; Dead, The THE SANCTUARY: 4. LOVE TRIUMPHANT, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If your fair mind were quenched with dark distress Last Line: And hush your awful anguish on my breast? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Vengeance THE SANCTUARY: 5. LOVE OMNIPOTENT, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love, is there aught I should fail to achieve for your / sake? Last Line: And rend the cold silence that conquers the lips of the dead. Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE SANCTUARY: 6. LOVE TRANSCENDENT, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When time shall cease and the world be ended Last Line: O my saint with the sinless eyes! Subject(s): Heaven; Love; Soul; Transcendentalism; Paradise THE SANCTUARY: 7. INVOCATION, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stoop not from thy proud, lonely sphere Last Line: Attain thy side. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Trust THE SANCTUARY: 8. DEVOTION, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take my flesh to feed your dogs if you choose Last Line: Or burn like a weed for your sake in the flame of hell. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion THE SOUL'S PRAYER, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In childhood's pride I said to thee Last Line: "and death the shadow of my face." Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE TEMPLE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, it is love's radiant hour of praise! Last Line: For love's burnt-offering! Subject(s): Hearts; Love THE TIME OF ROSES, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, it is the time of roses! Last Line: Crown me with the rose of love! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Love - Nature Of; Perfume; Roses THE VICTOR, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They brought their peacock-lutes of praise Last Line: And laid my life before his feet. Subject(s): Praise THREE SORROWS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I honour thee, o sacred grief? Last Line: Into a deathless shrine! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery TO A BUDDHA SEATED ON A LOTUS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lord buddha, on thy lotus-throne TO LILAMANI, AETAT I, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Limpid jewel of delight TO LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love! Of all the riches that are mine Last Line: What gift have I withheld before thy throne? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Old Age TRANSIENCE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, do not grieve tho' life be full of sadness Last Line: And make your eyes unfaithful to their tears. Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence VASANT PANCHAMI (LILAVATI'S LAMENT AT THE FEAST OF SPRING), by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Go, dragon-fly, fold up your purple wing Last Line: That hath foregone the kisses of the spring. Subject(s): Birds; Festivals; Memory; Spring; Fairs; Pageants VILLAGE SONG, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full are my pitchers and far to carry Last Line: Ram re ram! I shall die. Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Storms; Survival WANDERING BEGGARS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the threshold of the dawn Last Line: Y' allah! Y' allah! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WELCOME, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, o fiery pain! Last Line: Vision of love immortal. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Memory; Dead, The |
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