The Golden Threshold

Sarojini Naidu, The Golden Threshold, London: William Heinemann, 1905

pp.98; later contemporary decorative cloth binding with gilted leather title ticket pasted on the front board and the spine along with frontis portrait of Author, reproduced from a drawing by J B Yeats
7.6 x 5.4 x 0.8 in (19 x 13.5 x 2 cm)

The Golden Threshold is the first collection of Sarojini Naidu's poetry published in 1905 and it 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, introduced here by Arthur Symons, who promoted their publication after first hearing her read the earliest of them in 1896. 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, Leili, 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.

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