Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 2. THE FEAST, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poet's Biography First Line: Bring no fragrant sandal-paste Last Line: All the secret of your tears. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory; Old Age | ||||||||
BRING no fragrant sandal-paste, Let me gather, Love, instead The entranced and flowering dust You have honoured with your tread For mine eyelids and mine head. Bring no scented lotus-wreath Moon-awakened, dew-caressed; Love, thro' memory's age-long dream Sweeter shall my wild heart rest With your foot-prints on my breast. Bring no pearls from ravished seas, Gems from rifled hemispheres; Grant me, Love, in priceless boon All the sorrow of your years, All the secret of your tears. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT EIGHTY I CHANGE MY VIEW by DAVID IGNATOW FAWN'S FOSTER-MOTHER by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE DEER LAY DOWN THEIR BONES by ROBINSON JEFFERS OLD BLACK MEN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A WINTER ODE TO THE OLD MEN OF LUMMUS PARK, / MIAMI, FLORIDA by DONALD JUSTICE AFTER A LINE BY JOHN PEALE BISHOP by DONALD JUSTICE TO HER BODY, AGAINST TIME by ROBERT KELLY SONG FROM A COUNTRY FAIR by LEONIE ADAMS A CHALLENGE TO FATE by SAROJINI NAIDU |
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