Sonnet Poem by Toru Dutt

Sonnet

Rating: 4.8


A sea of foliage girds our garden round,
But not a sea of dull unvaried green,
Sharp contrasts of all colors here are seen;
The light-green graceful tamarinds abound
Amid the mango clumps of green profound,
And palms arise, like pillars gray, between;
And o'er the quiet pools the seemuls lean,
Red-red, and startling like a trumpet's sound.
But nothing can be lovelier than the ranges
Of bamboos to the eastward, when the moon
Looks through their gaps, and the white lotus changes
Into a cup of silver. One might swoon
Drunken with beauty then, or gaze and gaze
On a primeval Eden, in amaze.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Allemagne Roßmann 30 September 2012

One of the best sonnet i have ever read

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M Asim Nehal 20 January 2016

Nice imagery and beautiful poem.

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* Sunprincess * 20 January 2016

......a poem of most exquisite beauty... .i feel an artist could not have painted the scene more beautiful ★

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Manonton Dalan 20 January 2016

so beautiful she's like describing where I grow up...thanks

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Gangadharan Nair Pulingat 20 January 2016

A best poem that I reads here.

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Chinedu Dike 28 November 2022

An insightful poem with vivid imagery

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Sylvia Frances Chan 26 November 2022

Beautiful Sonnet, to my Favorites

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Sylvia Frances Chan 26 November 2022

CONGRATULATIONS to the family of the late great young poetess TORU DUTT, so young so much fame and so very young died. True amazing personality of a Great Poetess

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Calcutta / India
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