Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DESTINY, by SAROJINI NAIDU 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 | ||||||||
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? | 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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