Perfect for expressing your feelings towards a loved one this Valentine’s Day, ‘If You Call Me’ is a beautiful love poem by Indian writer Sarojini Naidu.
Sarojini Naidu was an Indian activist and feminist poet nicknamed ‘The Nightingale of India’ for her contribution to poetry. She was also the first Indian woman to be president of the Indian National Congress. Her poem If You Call Me is a short love song describing her intense feeling of adoration and her complete devotion to her lover.
If you call me I will come
Swifter, O my Love,
Than a trembling forest deer
Or a panting dove,
Swifter than 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
Swifter than desire,
Swifter than the lightning’s feet
Shod with plumes of fire.
Life’s dark tides may roll between,
Or Death’s deep chasms divide —
If you call me I will come
Fearless what betide.
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