What Is In Sarojini Naidu's The Golden Threshold? (An Introduction) Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

With Introduction
From Arthur Symons,
Dedicating the book to Edmund Gosse,
The collection appears in
1905
With Folk Songs as
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 containing in
Song of a Dream, Humayun to Zobeida,
Autumn Song, Alabaster,
Ecstasy, To my Fairy Fancies

And the section, Poems
Inclusive of
Ode to H.H. the Nizam of Hyderabad, Lelli,
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.

See the pardah nashin going on the road,
Think you about life she leads
Or made to live
Good or bad,
Looking through the latticed widow
With the pardah drawn over
Or hanging on the gate,
Buddha seated on a lotus,
Meditating,
Beaming with joy,
The Kahars taking away
The wooden dolis or palkis
With the girl bride
Unaware of all that to take place,
Singers as wanderers
Wandering and singing
As they in Kamala too,
The Lawrentine gypsies
She tells it about,
The corn grinders
Grinding,
Indian weavers
Weaving.