My Desire

Fate has given me many a gift

To which men most aspire,

Lovely, precious and costly things,

But not my heart’s desire.

Many a man has a secret dream

Of where his soul would be,

Mine is a low verandah’d house

In a tope beside the sea.

Over the roof tall palms should wave,

Swaying from side to side,

Every night we should fall asleep

To the rhythm of the tide.

The dawn should be gay with song of birds,

And the stir of fluttering wings.

Surely the joy of life is hid

In simple and tender things!

At eve the waves would shimmer with gold

In the rosy sunset rays,

Emerald velvet flats of rice

Would rest the landward gaze.

A boat must rock at the laterite steps

In a reef-protected pool,

For we should sail through the starlit night

When the winds were calm and cool.

I am so tired of all this world,

Its folly and fret and care.

Find me a little scented home

Amongst thy loosened hair.

Give me a soft and secret place

Against thine amber breast,

Where, hidden away from all mankind,

My soul may come to rest.

Many a man has a secret dream

Of where his life might be;

Mine is a lovely, lonely place

With sunshine and the sea.

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Poems in English 

• The Song of the Women by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Song of the Sons by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Song of the Old Guard by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Song of the Little Hunter by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Song of the Dead by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Song of the Cities by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Song of Seven Cities by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Settler by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Servant When He Reigneth by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Sergeant’s Weddin’ by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Secret of the Machines by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Second Voyage by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Sea-Wife by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Sea And the Hills by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Sacrifice of Er-Heb by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal’vin by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Rowers by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Rhyme of the Three Sealers by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Rhyme of the Three Captains by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Return by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling

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