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Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is hailed as ‗the Eurasian, poet, teacher and journalist‘ by Thomas Edwards and ‗a forgotten Anglo-Indian‘ by Bradley Brit. He deserves to be acknowledged as the India‘s first ‗national‘ poet a much desired tribute to this truly son of Indian soil. He was born on 18th April in 1809 and died after a brief life on 26th December 1831.As a profounder of ‗Young Bengal, he had a fiery spirit for social change. So he is resituated in the canon of Indian Writing in English by recent advances of literary scholarship. His rational and national zeal is best expressed through his poems like To India –My Native Land, The Harp of India and To the Pupils of Hindu College. The poem in question here aims to rediscover the melody as was aimed by Derozio in reviving the lost glory of India in the past. The way he wants to go out of the way to ‗strike the strain of the harp‘ of India which is in a devastating state. So an attempt is made to explore those horizons of melodious notes of poetry which Derozio wanted to touch for the revival of the lost glory of subjugated India under British imperialism.