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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CHALLENGE, by SAROJINI NAIDU 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
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
THOU who dost quell in thy victorious tide
Death's ravaged secret and life's ruined pride,
Shall thy great deeps prevail, O conquering Sea,
O'er Love's relentless tides of memory?
Sweet Earth, though in thy lustrous bowl doth shine
The limpid flame of hope's perennial wine,
Thou art too narrow and too frail to bear
The harsh, wild vintage of my heart's despair.
O valiant skies, so eager to uphold
High laughing burdens of sidereal gold,
Swift would your brave brows perish to sustain
The radiant silence of my sleepless pain.
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