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Subject: FOLK SONGS - INDIAN
Matches Found: 9

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BANGLE-SELLERS, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bangle-sellers are we who bear
Last Line: And worships the gods at her husband's side.
Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Love - Marital; Worship; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


HYMN TO INDRA, LORD OF RAIN, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou, who rousest the voice of the thunder
Last Line: Hearken, o lord of rain!
Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Pride; Singing & Singers; Worship; Self-esteem; Self-respect


SLUMBER SONG FOR SUNALINI, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the golden, glowing
Last Line: Sleep, my sunalini, sleep!
Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Folk Songs - Indian; Heaven; Rest; Saints; Death - Babies; Paradise


SONG OF RADHA THE MILKMAID, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I carried my curds to the mathura fair
Last Line: How brightly the river was flowing!
Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Singing & Singers; Worship


SONGS OF MY CITY: 1. IN A LATTICED BALCONY, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How shall I feed thee, beloved?
Last Line: With the delicate silence of love.
Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Love


SONGS OF MY CITY: 2. IN THE BAZAARS OF HYDERABAD, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What do you sell, o ye merchants?
Last Line: To perfume the sleep of the dead.
Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Singing & Singers


SPINNING SONG, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My sisters plucked green leaves at morn
Last Line: For the beauty of your eyes.
Subject(s): Beauty; Festivals; Flowers; Folk Songs - Indian; Music & Musicians; Spring; Fairs; Pageants


THE FESTIVAL OF SERPENTS, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shining ones awake, we seek your chosen temples
Last Line: Where life and death and sorrow and ecstasy are one.
Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Praise; Prayer


VILLAGE SONG, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Full are my pitchers and far to carry
Last Line: Ram re ram! I shall die.
Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Storms; Survival