Tagore Poems

The Gardener LXI: Peace, My Heart

Peace, my heart, let the time forthe parting be sweet.Let it not be a death but completeness.Let love melt into…

8 months ago

The Gardener LV: It Was Mid-Day

It was mid-day when you wentaway .The sun was strong in the sky.I had done my work and sat aloneon…

8 months ago

The Gardener LI: Then Finish the Last Song

Then finish the last song and let usleave.Forget this night when the night isno more.Whom do I try to clasp…

8 months ago

The Gardener IV: Ah Me

Ah me, why did they build myhouse by the road to the markettown?They moor their laden boats nearmy trees.They come…

8 months ago

The Flower-School

When storm-clouds rumble in the sky and June showers come down.The moist east wind comes marching over the heath to…

8 months ago

The End

It is time for me to go, mother; I am going.When in the paling darkness of the lonely dawn you…

8 months ago

The Champa Flower

Supposing I became a chanpa flower, just for fun, and grew on abranch high up that tree, and shook in…

8 months ago

The Beginning

"Where have I come from, where did you pick me up?" the baby askedits mother.She answered, half crying, half laughing,…

8 months ago

The Astronomer

I only said, "When in the evening the round full moon getsentangled among the beaches of that Dadam tree, couldn't…

8 months ago

Superior

Mother, your baby is silly! She is so absurdly childish!She does not know the difference between the lights in thestreets…

8 months ago