Songs of Love
With an Introduction by Edmund Gosse
Sarojini Naidu
- 84 pages
- English
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Songs of Love
With an Introduction by Edmund Gosse
Sarojini Naidu
About This Book
"Songs of Love" is a beautiful collection of some of Naidu's most moving poetry not to be missed by fans and collectors of her work. Contents include: "The Poet's Love-Song", "Song Of A Dream", "Ecstasy", "Humayun To Zobeida", "The Bird Of Time", "An Indian Love Song", "Love And Death", "The Dance Of Love", "A Love Son", "A Rajput Love Song", "A Persian Love Song", "To Love", etc.Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949) was an Indian political activist and poet. She was a staunch proponent of women's emancipation, civil rights, and anti-imperialistic ideas, playing an important role in India's struggle for independence from colonial rule. Her work as a poet includes both children's poems and others with more mature themes including patriotism, romance, and tragedy, earning her the sobriquet "Nightingale of India". Her most famous work is "In the Bazaars of Hyderabad" (1912), which remains widely read to this day. Read & Co. is publishing this brand new poetry collection complete with an introduction by Edmund Gosse.
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III. THE SANCTUARY
1.
THE FEAR OF LOVE
A shield for you from envious lips and eyes
That desecrate the sweetness of your days
With tumults of their praise!
A secret, sealed, invulnerable shrine
To hide you, happy and inviolate,
From covetous Time and Fate.
Lest the uncounted avarice of the year
Add to the triumph of all garnered grace
The rapture of your face!
Lest the far-journeying winds and sunbeams bear
Bright rumours of your luring brows and breath
Unto the groves of Death.
Whose very love of you is sacrilege?
O I would save you from the ravening fire
Of my own heart's desire!
2.
THE ILLUSION OF LOVE
Only a transient spark
Only a common shell
Only a hapless thing
3.
THE WORSHIP OF LOVE
4.
LOVE TRIUMPHANT
Your dear hands stained with fierce blood-guiltiness,
Or your sweet flesh fell rotting from the bone,
Should not my deep unchanging love atone
And shield you from the sore decree of Fat...