Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ASHOKA BLOSSOM, by SAROJINI NAIDU



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ASHOKA BLOSSOM, by                     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.





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