Humayun To Zobeida (From the Urdu) (Sarojini Naidu Poems)
You flaunt your beauty in the rose, your glory in the dawn, Your sweetness in the nightingale, your white- ness ...
You flaunt your beauty in the rose, your glory in the dawn, Your sweetness in the nightingale, your white- ness ...
HERE, O my heart, let us burn the dear dreams that are dead, Here in this wood let us fashion ...
CHILDREN, ye have not lived, to you it seems Life is a lovely stalactite of dreams, Or carnival of careless ...
WHEN dawn's first cymbals beat upon the sky, Rousing the world to labour's various cry, To tend the flock, to ...
LAMP of my life, the lips of Death Hath blown thee out with their sudden breath; Naught shall revive thy ...
IN tattered robes that hoard a glittering trace Of bygone colours, broidered to the knee, Behold her, daughter of a ...
HER life is a revolving dream Of languid and sequestered ease; Her girdles and her fillets gleam Like changing fires ...
LORD BUDDHA, on thy Lotus-throne, With praying eyes and hands elate, What mystic rapture dost thou own, Immutable and ultimate? ...
NAY, no longer I may hold you, In my spirit's soft caresses, Nor like lotus-leaves enfold you In the tangles ...
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