Visualization of the poem Song of a Dream by Sarojini Naidu

2. SAROJINI NAIDU
Born: 13 February, 1879
Place of Birth: Hyderabad
Famous as : Nightingale of India
Education: University of Madras; King's College,
London; Girton College, Cambridge
Associations: Indian National Congress
Publications: The Golden Threshold (1905); The Bird of
Time (1912); The Broken Wing (1917); The Sceptred Flute
(1928); The Feather of the Dawn (1961)
Famous poems :Palanquin Bearers, Coromandel Fishers
,Autumn Song.
Passed Away: 2 March, 1949

3. SONG OF A DREAM

4. Once in the dream of a night I stood
Lone in the light of a magical wood,
Soul-deep in visions that poppy-like sprang;
And spirits of Truth were the birds that sang,
And spirits of Love were the stars that glowed,
And spirits of Peace were the streams that flowed
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
Lone in the light of that magical grove,
I felt the stars of the spirits of Love
Gather and gleam round my delicate youth,
And I heard the song of the spirits of Truth;
To quench my longing I bent me low
By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.

5. Once in the dream of a night I stood

6. Lone in the light of a magical wood,

7. Soul-deep in visions that
poppy-like sprang

8. And spirits of Truth were the birds that sang,

9. And spirits of Love were the stars that glowed,

10. And spirits of Peace were
the streams that flowed

11. In that magical wood in the land of sleep.

12. Lone in the light of that magical grove,

13. I felt the stars of the spirits of Love

14. Gather and gleam round my delicate youth,

15. And I heard the song of the spirits of Truth;

16. To quench my longing I bent me low

17. By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow

18. In that magical wood in the land of sleep.