Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ASHOKA BLOSSOM, by SAROJINI NAIDU 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 | ||||||||
IF a lovely maiden's foot Treads on the Ashoka root, Its glad branches sway and swell, So our eastern legends tell, Into gleaming flower, Vivid clusters golden-red To adorn her brow or bed Or her marriage bower. If your glowing foot be prest O'er the secrets of my breast, Love, my dreaming head would wake, And its joyous fancies break Into lyric bloom To enchant the passing world With melodious leaves unfurled And their wild perfume. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MISERY AND SPLENDOR by ROBERT HASS THE APPLE TREES AT OLEMA by ROBERT HASS DOUBLE SONNET by ANTHONY HECHT CONDITIONS XXI by ESSEX HEMPHILL CALIFORNIA SORROW: MOUNTAIN VIEW by MARY KINZIE SUPERBIA: A TRIUMPH WITH NO TRAIN by MARY KINZIE COUNSEL TO UNREASON by LEONIE ADAMS TWENTY QUESTIONS by DAVID LEHMAN A CHALLENGE TO FATE by SAROJINI NAIDU |
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