Rabindranath Tagore poem

Lover’s Gifts XIX: It Is Written in the Book

It is written in the book that Man, when fifty, must leave thenoisy world, to go to the forest seclusion.…

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Lover’s Gifts XIII: Last Night in the Garden

Last night in the garden I offered you my youth's foaming wine. Youlifted the cup to your lips, you shut…

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Lover’s Gifts V: I Would Ask For Still More

I would ask for still more, if I had the sky with all its stars,and the world with its endless…

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Lover’s Gifts LVIII: Things Throng and Laugh

Things throng and laugh loud in the sky; the sands and dust danceand whirl like children. Man's mind is aroused…

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Lover’s Gifts LIV: In the Beginning of Time

In the beginning of time, there rose from the churning of God'sdream two women. One is the dancer at the…

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Lover’s Gifts IV: She Is Near to My Heart

She is near to my heart as the meadow-flower to the earth; she issweet to me as sleep is to…

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Lotus

On the day when the lotus bloomed, alas, my mind was straying,and I knew it not. My basket was empty…

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Lost Star

When the creation was new and all the stars shone in their firstsplendor, the gods held their assembly in the…

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Little Of Me

Let only that little be left of mewhereby I may name thee my all.Let only that little be left of…

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Light

Light, my light, the world-filling light,the eye-kissing light,heart-sweetening light!Ah, the light dances, my darling, at the center of my life;the…

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