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The Golden Threshold includes the lovely ‘Indian Love-Song’, along with several other poignant poems. Every poem offers a sense of comprehension into the thoughts and feelings of this widely foremost and inspirational woman. The verses are divided into three classes: Folk Songs, Songs for Music and Poems.FOLK SONGS: Palanquin-Bearers, Wandering Singers, Indian Weavers, Coromandel Fishers, The Snake-Charmer, Corn-Grinders, Village-Song, In Praise of Henna, Harvest Hymn, Indian Love-Song, Cradle-Song, Suttee. SONGS FOR MUSIC: Song of a Dream, Humayun to Zobeida, Autumn Song Alabaster, Ecstasy, To my Fairy Fancies. POEMS: Ode to H. H. the Nizam of Hyderabad, In the Forest, Past and Future Life, The Poet’s Love-Song, To the God of Pain, The Song of Princess Zeb-un-nissa, Indian Dancers, My Dead Dream, Damayante to Nala in the Hour of Exile, The Queen’s Rival, The Poet to Death, The Indian Gipsy, To my Children, The Pardah Nashin, To Youth, Nightfall in the City of Hyderabad, Street Cries, To India, The Royal Tombs of Golconda, To a Buddha seated on a Lotus. Sarojini Naidu was an advocate of liberation and poet of contemporary India. She was born in a Bengali family at Hyderabad and studied at Chennai, London and Cambridge. She tied the knot with Dr. Govindarajulu Naidu and lived in Hyderabad. She participated in the National Movement, was a believer of Gandhiji or Mahatma Gandhi and challenged for the acquisition of Swaraj. She came to be the President of Indian National Congress and afterward she was designated the Governor of the United Provinces, recently Uttar Pradesh. Described as the ‘Nightingale of India’, she was also a notable poet. The theme of her poetry are mostly about for kids, nature, nationalism, and romance and demise.
Product ID: 9781776743117
Sku: XY-7795-YLQH
