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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SANCTUARY: 5. LOVE OMNIPOTENT, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poet's Biography
First Line: O love, is there aught I should fail to achieve for your / sake?
Last Line: And rend the cold silence that conquers the lips of the dead.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love
First Line: O love, is there aught I should fail to achieve for your / sake?
Last Line: And rend the cold silence that conquers the lips of the dead.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love
O LOVE, is there aught I should fail to achieve for your sake?
Your need would invest my frail hands with invincible power
To tether the dawn and the darkness, to trample and break
The mountains like sea-shells, and crush the fair moon like a flower,
And drain the wide rivers as dew-drops and pluck from the skies
The sunbeams like arrows, the stars like proud impotent eyes.
O Love, is there aught I should fear to fulfil at your word?
Your will my weak hands with such dauntless delight would endow
To capture and tame the wild tempest to sing like a bird,
And bend the swift lightning to fashion a crown for your brow,
Unfurl the sealed triumph of Time like a foot-cloth outspread,
And rend the cold silence that conquers the lips of the dead.
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