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'''''The Bird of Time''''' is a poetry collection book by Indian poet [[Sarojini Naidu]] in 1912. The book consists of four chapters, which contain 47 poems in total. It is Naidu's second book and most strongly nationalist book of poems, published from both [[London]] and [[New York City]]. Inspired by [[Edmund Gosse]] work Naidu's work is steeped in the Romantic tradition while entirely conscious of the political and social strife of India.<ref name="CGG">{{cite web|title=Presentation of Hyderabad in the poetry of Sarojini Naidu|url=https://ccets.cgg.gov.in/Uploads/files/buttonDetails/30383.pdf|pages=4–10|work=Centre for good governance|year=2017|accessdate=27 July 2022|archive-date=17 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230217053301/https://ccets.cgg.gov.in/Uploads/files/buttonDetails/30383.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="N18">{{cite web|title=Sarojini Naidu's 142nd Birth Anniversary: Five facts to Know About the Nightingale of India|url=https://www.news18.com/news/india/sarojini-naidus-142nd-birth-anniversary-five-facts-to-know-about-the-nightingale-of-india-3427079.html|work=[[Network18 Group]]|date=13 February 2021|accessdate=22 July 2022}}<br />
*{{cite web|title=On Hindi Diwas, Here's A List of Revolutionary Hindi Poets Who Changed The World With Their Words|url=https://www.news18.com/news/lifestyle/on-hindi-diwas-heres-a-list-of-revolutionary-hindi-poets-who-changed-the-world-with-their-words-4202444.html|work=[[Network18 Group]]|date=14 September 2021|accessdate=22 July 2022}}</ref><ref name="researchlink">{{cite journal|title=The Indian spirit in the poems of Sarojini Naidu|url=http://researchlink.in/FullIssue/Research%20Link%20107/5%20English%20Literature.pdf|publisher=Research Link|journal=English Literature|volume=XI (12)|last=Sindhu|first=CH|pages=45–7|date=February 2013|issn=0973-1628|access-date=24 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131003143046/http://researchlink.in/FullIssue/Research%20Link%20107/5%20English%20Literature.pdf|archive-date=3 October 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="NYT">{{cite news|title=Poet of India|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/04/27/100615912.pdf|last=Helen|first=Bullis|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=27 April 1913|access-date=29 September 2013}}</ref><br />
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In 2022, a plaque containing the poem "The Hussain Saagar", from the collection, was erected at [[Tank Bund Road]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.siasat.com/sarojini-naidus-poem-hussain-saagar-installed-at-tank-bund-2275071/|title=Sarojini Naidu's poem 'Hussain Saagar' installed at Tank Bund|work=[[The Siasat Daily]]|last=Kirmani|first=Syeda Faiza|date=13 February 2022|accessdate=27 July 2022}}</ref> "[[In the Bazaars of Hyderabad]]" is another poem from ''The Bird of Time''.<ref name="NYT"/><br />
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==Contents==<br />
:''Songs of Love and Death''<br />
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:*The Bird of Time<br />
:*Dirge: In sorrow of her bereavement<br />
:*An Indian Love Song<br />
:*In Remembrance: Violet Clarke<br />
:*Love and Death<br />
:*The Dance of Love<br />
:*A Love Song from the North<br />
:*At Twilight: On the way to Golconda<br />
:*Alone<br />
:*A Rajput Love Song<br />
:*A Persian Love Song<br />
:*To Love<br />
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:''Songs of the Spring time''<br />
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:*Spring<br />
:*A Song in Spring<br />
:*The Joy of the Springtime<br />
:*Vasant Panchami: Lilavati's Lament at the Feast of Spring<br />
:*In a Time of Flowers<br />
:*In Praise of Gulmohur Blossoms<br />
:*Nasturtiums<br />
:*Golden Cassia<br />
:*Champak Blossoms<br />
:*Ecstasy<br />
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:''Indian Folk-Songs'' (''To Indian Tunes'')<br />
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:*Village Song<br />
:*Slumber Song for Sunalini<br />
:''Songs of my City'':<br />
::*In a Latticed Balcony<br />
::*In the Bazaars of Hyderabad<br />
:*Bangle-sellers<br />
:*The Festival of Serpents<br />
:*Song of Radha the Milkmaid<br />
:*Spinning Song<br />
:*Hymn to Indra, Lord of Rain<br />
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:''Songs of Life''<br />
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:*Death and Life<br />
:*The Hussain Saagar<br />
:*The Faery Isle of Janjira<br />
:*The Soul's Prayer<br />
:*Transience<br />
:*The Old Woman<br />
:*In the Night<br />
:*At Dawn<br />
:*An Anthem of Love<br />
:*Solitude<br />
:*A Challenge to Fate<br />
:*The Call to Evening Prayer<br />
:*In Salutation to the Eternal Peace<br />
:*Medley: A Kashmeri Song<br />
:*Farewell<br />
:*Guerdon<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Indian English literature]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* {{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/remembering-indias-nightingale-whose-poetry-presented-princely-hyderabad-to-world/articleshow/89541069.cms|title=Remembering India's nightingale, whose poetry presented princely Hyderabad to world|work=[[Times of India]]|last=Akbdar|first=Syed|date=13 February 2022}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{wikisource-inline|The Bird of Time|''The Bird of Time''|single=true}}<br />
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