If you call me
If you call me I will come
Swifter,O my love,
Than a trembling forest deer
Or a painting dove
Swifter them a snake that flies
To the charmer’s thrall…..
If you call me I will come
Fearless what befall.
If you call me, I will come
Swiftless than desire,
Swifter than the lighting’s feet
Shod with plumes of fire.
Life’s dark tides may roll between,
or Death’s deep chasm divide
If you call me I will come
Fearless what betide.
These lines are from the poem ‘If You Call Me’, composed by Sarojini Naidu. Sarojini Naidu is one of the leading Indian-English poetess. It is an exquisite love poem of Mrs Naidu. The theme of love predominates in her poetry. It is a pretty little song conveying through its air the maiden’s Intense eagerness to fly to her lover. Uncalled she would not go: she has her own proud will. All the swiftest things have been assembled in the song the deer, the dove, the snake flying to the charmer’s call. Maiden would outrun all these. The burning intensity of the maiden’s heart is her swiftness.
Sarojini Naidu says that If You Call Me
