PoemLife
Author / PoetSarojini Naidu
TagsChildren, Dreams, Joys, Life

CHILDREN, ye have not lived, to you it seems
Life is a lovely stalactite of dreams,
Or carnival of careless joys that leap
About your hearts like billows on the deep
In flames of amber and of amethyst.

Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu
13 Feb 1879 - 2 Mar 1949
Region: India, Southern Asia
Period: Modernist

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