The Poet's Love-Song by Sarojini Naidu.

IN noon-tide hours,

O Love, secure and strong,
⁠I need thee not; mad dreams are mine to bind
⁠The world to my desire, and hold the wind
A voiceless captive to my conquering song.
⁠I need thee not, I am content with these:
⁠Keep silence in thy soul, beyond the seas!

But in the desolate hour of midnight, when
⁠An ecstasy of starry silence sleeps
⁠On the still mountains and the soundless deeps,
And my soul hungers for thy voice, O then,
⁠Love, like the magic of wild melodies,
⁠Let thy soul answer mine across the seas!