Sarojini Naidu is a lyricst of eminence in the entire range of Indo-English poetry. Neither Toru Dutt, nor Aurobindo can match the excellent sonorous melody of her verses. "she sings to us songs of India "(R.Bhatnagar). Her poems have 'bird like quality of a song ' that are about joys of spring, the raptures of love and colourful spectacles of Indian life and milieu.
Her love poems have the very euphony of lyrical tone and temper.(ref. An Indian Love Song, A Persian Love Song, A Rajput Love Song). But the songs of life and death sings of the helplessness of mankind before the formidable presence of fate. The best melodious quality of her lyrics can be discerned in Indian folk songs. Hence comes the soft and delicate music in the Palanquin Bearers;
Lightly, O lightly we bear her along
She sways like a flower in the wind of our song;
She skims like a bird on the foam of a stream,
She floats like a laugh from the lips of a dream.
Gaily O gaily, we glide and we sing
we bear her along like a pearl on a string.
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