The poem ruminates on the journey of life which for most embodies a cyclical story of an endless wait.
The poem intends to expose the hollowness of Goddess worship in a society that disrespects women daily.
Sweet malida. A mix of water-softened flattened rice, sugar, dried fruits and nuts, was a dish made
The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument.
The poems urge beauty to reproduce, warn against vanity, and reflect on time, aging, memory, and legacy through human generations.
Three poems by Sarojini Naidu from 'The Golden Threshold' published in 1905. Naidu is one of the first major female poets in Indian-English literature.
My grandmother has a box/Filled with dolls/Dirty, broken dolls/That were once whole/Friends for my mother/My mother was once a little girl
18 May is celebrated worldwide as International Museum Day. Thomas Hardy's poem celebrates the British Museum.
You were there when that little child fell,/She bruised her leg and cried./ You felt for her, rustled your leaves,/Until her eyes dried.
The night’s a complete washout/ The eyes can’t hold the ocean/Flooding the parched soil/And does its own thing/with the mascara, the eyeliner
They say forgetting will render you free,/But that's not the case with you and me./I like to believe that I have known you long,/But truth
The one who sets in motion strange, impossible/Works, that once begun/ will stretch forth into space and time,/towards a history yet unborn,
Read a poem by young author Isha Maiti.
Significance is something we tie so much to/But from up here/All I see are flickering lights/And ants crawling by
Two poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the most oft-quoted Romantic poet. He was considered a spontaneous and radical poet in his lifetime and
Poems by Victorian author Emily Bronte. Emily wrote poems under the pen name Ellis Bell.
