Mohini Gupta reads Renunciation by Dorothy Bonarjee

Indian student Dorothy Bonarjeee won the University College of Wales Eisteddfod in 1914 and continued writing poems for a Welsh publication.

She was secretly engaged to a Welsh student for three years, but then he dropped her.

The man's family said she was very beautiful and intelligent "but Indian".

Her poem Renunciation appears to be a response to this heartbreak.

It includes the words:

So I must give thee up - not with the glow

Of those who losing much yet rather gain.

But losing all. Did never martyr go

Along the bleeding road of useless pain?

Did never one held prisoner by a creed,

Obsessed by stern heroic ghosts, made dumb

By those who answered duty to his need,

With faithless loathing feet to his fate come?