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Sarojini Naidu's Poetry, by first line

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  • Cradle Song
    From groves of spice,
    O'er fields of rice,
    18 lines, 3 comments
  • Suttee
    LAMP of my life, the lips of Death
    Hath blown thee out with their sudden breath;
    12 lines
  • Humayun To Zobeida (From the Urdu)
    You flaunt your beauty in the rose, your glory in the dawn,
    Your sweetness in the nightingale, your white- ness in the swan.
    10 lines
  • To My Fairy Fancies
    NAY, no longer I may hold you,
    In my spirit's soft caresses,
    14 lines, 4 comments
  • The Poet's Love Song
    IN noon-tide hours, O Love, secure and strong,
    I need thee not; mad dreams are mine to bind
    12 lines
  • The Song Of Princess Zeb-Un-Nissa In Praise Of Her Own Beauty
    WHEN from my cheek I lift my veil,
    The roses turn with envy pale,
    12 lines
  • The Queen's Rival
    QUEEN GULNAAR sat on her ivory bed,
    Around her countless treasures were spread;
    57 lines, 1 comment
  • The Poet To Death
    TARRY a while, O Death, I cannot die
    While yet my sweet life burgeons with its spring;
    12 lines
  • To My Children
    GOLDEN sun of victory, born
    In my life's unclouded morn,
    36 lines
  • The Pardah Nashin
    HER life is a revolving dream
    Of languid and sequestered ease;
    18 lines
  • To India
    O YOUNG through all thy immemorial years!
    Rise, Mother, rise, regenerate from thy gloom,
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • To A Buddha Seated On A Lotus
    LORD BUDDHA, on thy Lotus-throne,
    With praying eyes and hands elate,
    30 lines
  • Indian Love Song
    LIKE a serpent to the calling voice of flutes,
    Glides my heart into thy fingers, O my Love!
    14 lines
  • Harvest Hymn
    LORD of the lotus, lord of the harvest,
    Bright and munificent lord of the morn!
    35 lines
  • Wandering Singers
    WHERE the voice of the wind calls our wandering feet,
    Through echoing forest and echoing street,
    12 lines
  • Transience
    Nay, do not grieve tho' life be full of sadness,
    Dawn will not veil her spleandor for your grief,
    12 lines, 3 comments
  • Autumn Song
    Like a joy on the heart of a sorrow,
       The sunset hangs on a cloud;
    10 lines, 6 comments
  • In Praise Of Henna
    A KOKILA called from a henna-spray:
    Lira! liree! Lira! liree!
    16 lines
  • Ecstasy
    Cover mine eyes, O my Love!
    Mine eyes that are weary of bliss
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • Village Song
    HONEY, child, honey, child, whither are you going?
    Would you cast your jewels all to the breezes blowing?
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • Corn Grinders
    O little mouse, why dost thou cry
    While merry stars laugh in the sky?
    27 lines
  • The Snake Charmer
    WHITHER dost thou hide from the magic of my flute-call?
    In what moonlight-tangled meshes of perfume,
    12 lines
  • Indian Weavers
    WEAVERS, weaving at break of day,
    Why do you weave a garment so gay? . . .
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • Leili
    To tangled paths where shy gazelles are straying,
    And parrot-plumes outshine the dying day.
    0 lines, 1 comment
  • In The Forest
    But soon we must rise, O my heart, we must wander again
    Into the war of the world and the strife of the throng;
    0 lines, 5 comments
  • Life
    And thirst with passionate longing for the things
    That burn your brows with blood-red sufferings
    0 lines, 1 comment
  • My Dead Dream
    Go back to your grave, O my Dream, under forests of snow,
    Where a heart-riven child hid you once, seven eons ago
    12 lines
  • To Youth
    I give thee back thy false, ephemeral vow;
    But, O beloved comrade, ere we part
    12 lines
  • The Soul's Prayer
            In childhood's pride I said to Thee: 
            "O Thou, who mad'st me of Thy
    34 lines
  • A Rajput Love Song
    (Parvati at her lattice)
    O Love! were you a basil-wreath to twine
    42 lines, 3 comments
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