Sarojini Naidu's The Golden Threshold

The Golden Threshold contains in Some of the remarkably written songs and lyrics To be called poems, Singing like Mahatma's The Nightingale, Warbling, doing madrigals As and when we talk of or chance upon Her poetry Taking to read and enjoy and appreciate Palanquin-Bearers, Wandering Singers, Indian Weavers, Coromandel Fishers, The Snake-Charmer, Corn-Grinders, The Poet's Love-Song, Indian Dancers, The Queen's Rival, The Indian Gipsy, The Pardah Nashin, Street Cries, To India, To a Buddha seated on a Lotus, Enabling us to have the draught of Folk, classical and Provencal And pastoral, idyllic and love poetry, First printed in 1905, But dedicated to Edmund Gosse Her literary mentor.