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    The Golden Threshold
    The Golden Threshold
    The Golden Threshold
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    The Golden Threshold

    By Sarojini Naidu and Arthur Symons

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    Release dateJun 1, 2004
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    Sarojini Naidu

    Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949) was an Indian poet and political activist. Born in Hyderabad to a Bengali Brahmin family, she graduated from the University of Madras at twelve before journeying to England to study at King’s College London and Cambridge. At nineteen, she married physician Paidipati Govindarajulu Naidu, with whom she would raise five children. Following the partition of Bengal in 1905, Naidu became involved with the Indian independence movement. A close ally of Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi, she travelled across India to speak on social issues such as welfare and the emancipation of women, as well as to advocate for the end of colonial rule. After travelling to London to work alongside Annie Besant, Naidu devoted herself to Gandhi’s Satyagraha movement, braving arrest during the Salt March of 1930 and promoting the principles of civil disobedience across the globe. As one of the most respected poets of twentieth century India, she published such collections as The Golden Threshold (1905), The Bird of Time (1912), and The Broken Wing (1917).

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      The Golden Threshold - Sarojini Naidu

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Golden Threshold, by Sarojini Naidu

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: The Golden Threshold

      Author: Sarojini Naidu

      Posting Date: August 30, 2008 [EBook #680] Release Date: October, 1996

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD ***

      Produced by Judith Boss.

      THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD

      BY

      SAROJINI NAIDU

      WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ARTHUR SYMONS

      DEDICATED TO EDMUND GOSSE WHO FIRST SHOWED ME THE WAY TO THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD

      London, 1896 Hyderabad, 1905

      CONTENTS

      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

      INTRODUCTION

      It is at my persuasion that these poems are now published. The earliest of them were read to me in London in 1896, when the writer was seventeen; the later ones were sent to me from India in 1904, when she was twenty-five; and they belong, I think, almost wholly to those two periods. As they seemed to me to have an individual beauty of their own, I thought they ought to be published. The writer hesitated. Your letter made me very proud and very sad, she wrote. Is it possible that I have written verses that are 'filled with beauty,' and is it possible that you really think them worthy of being given to the world? You know how high my ideal of Art is; and to me my poor casual little poems seem to be less than beautiful—I mean with that final enduring beauty that I desire. And, in another letter, she writes: I am not a poet really. I have the vision and the desire, but not the voice. If I could write just one poem full of beauty and the spirit of greatness, I should be exultantly silent for ever; but I sing just as the birds do, and my songs are as ephemeral. It is for this bird-like quality of song, it seems to me, that they are to be valued. They hint, in a sort of delicately evasive way, at a rare temperament, the temperament of a woman of the East, finding expression through a Western language and under partly Western influences. They do not express the whole of that temperament; but they express, I think, its essence; and there is an Eastern magic in them.

      Sarojini Chattopadhyay was born at Hyderabad on February 13, 1879. Her father, Dr. Aghorenath Chattopadhyay, is descended from the ancient family of Chattorajes of Bhramangram, who were noted throughout Eastern

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