Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DESTINY, by SAROJINI NAIDU


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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


IT chanced on the noon of an April day
A dragon-fly passed in its sunward play
And furled his flight for a passing hour
To drain the life of a passion-flower. ...
Who cares if a ruined blossom die,
O bright blue wandering dragon-fly?

Love came, with his ivory flute,
His pleading eye, and his wingèd foot.
"I am weary," he murmured; "O let me rest
In the sheltering joy of your fragrant breast."
At dawn he fled and he left no token. ...
Who cares if a woman's heart be broken?





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