In The Bazaars of Hyderabad (Sarojini Naidu Poems)
What do you sell O ye merchants ?Richly your wares are displayed.Turbans of crimson and silver,Tunics of purple brocade,Mirrors with ...
What do you sell O ye merchants ?Richly your wares are displayed.Turbans of crimson and silver,Tunics of purple brocade,Mirrors with ...
LIKE this alabaster box whose art Is frail as a cassia-flower, is my heart, Carven with delicate dreams and wrought ...
WEAVERS, weaving at break of day, Why do you weave a garment so gay? . . . Blue as the ...
WHEN from my cheek I lift my veil, The roses turn with envy pale, And from their pierced hearts, rich ...
He Lift up the veils that darken the delicate moon of thy glory and grace, Withhold not, O love, from ...
THE serpents are asleep among the poppies, The fireflies light the soundless panther's way To tangled paths where shy gazelles ...
LORD BUDDHA, on thy Lotus-throne, With praying eyes and hands elate, What mystic rapture dost thou own, Immutable and ultimate? ...
Like a joy on the heart of a sorrow, The sunset hangs on a cloud; A golden storm of glittering ...
CHILDREN, ye have not lived, to you it seems Life is a lovely stalactite of dreams, Or carnival of careless ...
O YOUNG through all thy immemorial years! Rise, Mother, rise, regenerate from thy gloom, And, like a bride high-mated with ...
O little mouse, why dost thou cry While merry stars laugh in the sky? Alas! alas! my lord is dead! ...
HAVE YOU found me, at last, O my Dream? Seven eons ago You died and I buried you deep under ...
Jaya Surya GOLDEN sun of victory, born In my life's unclouded morn, In my lambent sky of love, May your ...
Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to the morning light, The wind lies asleep in the arms of the ...
SEE how the speckled sky burns like a pigeon's throat, Jewelled with embers of opal and peridote. See the white ...
NAY, no longer I may hold you, In my spirit's soft caresses, Nor like lotus-leaves enfold you In the tangles ...
FROM groves of spice, O'er fields of rice, Athwart the lotus-stream, I bring for you, Aglint with dew A little ...
DEIGN, Prince, my tribute to receive, This lyric offering to your name, Who round your jewelled scepter bind The lilies ...
UNWILLING priestess in thy cruel fane, Long hast thou held me, pitiless god of Pain, Bound to thy worship by ...
SHALT thou be conquered of a human fate My liege, my lover, whose imperial head Hath never bent in sorrow ...
Lightly, O lightly we bear her along, She sways like a flower in the wind of our song; She skims ...
Nay, do not grieve tho' life be full of sadness, Dawn will not veil her spleandor for your grief, Nor ...
Cover mine eyes, O my Love! Mine eyes that are weary of bliss As of light that is poignant and ...
The new hath come and now the old retires: And so the past becomes a mountain-cell, Where lone, apart, old ...
HONEY, child, honey, child, whither are you going? Would you cast your jewels all to the breezes blowing? Would you ...
Mens Voices: LORD of the lotus, lord of the harvest, Bright and munificent lord of the morn! Thine is the ...
ONCE in the dream of a night I stood Lone in the light of a magical wood, Soul-deep in visions ...
WHERE the voice of the wind calls our wandering feet, Through echoing forest and echoing street, With lutes in our ...
You flaunt your beauty in the rose, your glory in the dawn, Your sweetness in the nightingale, your white- ness ...
WHEN dawn's first cymbals beat upon the sky, Rousing the world to labour's various cry, To tend the flock, to ...
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