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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

The Gardener: 58

One morning in the flower garden a blind girl came to offer me a flower chain in the cover of a lotus leaf.
I put it round my neck, and tears came to my eyes.
I kissed her and said, “You are blind even as the flowers are.
You yourself know not how beautiful is your gift.”

Other works by Rabindranath Tagore...
Stray Birds 51 - 60

51 YOUR idol is shattered in the du… to prove that God’s dust is greate… your idol. 52
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The Gardener: 44

Reverend sir, forgive this pair of sinners. Spring winds to-day are blowing in wild eddies, driving dust and dead leaves away, For we have made truce with death for once, and only for...
Still Heart

When I give up the helm I know that the time has come for… What there is to do will be instan… Vain is this struggle. Then take away your hands
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Lover's Gifts XIII: Last Night in the Garden

Last night in the garden I offere… lifted the cup to your lips, you s… I raised your veil, unbound your t… breast your face sweet with its si… dream overflowed the world of slum…
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Keep Me Fully Glad

Keep me fully glad with nothing. Only take my hand in your hand. In the gloom of the deepening night take up my heart and play with it as you list. Bind me close to you with nothing. ...
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Defamation

Whey are those tears in your eyes,… How horrid of them to be always sc… You have stained your fingers and… is that why they call you dirty? O, fie! Would they dare to call t…
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The Gardener: 61

Peace, my heart, let the time for… Let it not be a death but complete… Let love melt into memory and pain… Let the flight through the sky end… Let the last touch of your hands b…
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Romeo and Juliet on the balcony, by Julius Kronberg
The Gardener: 16

Hands cling to hands and eyes ling… It is the moonlit night of March;… This love between you and me is si… Your veil of the saffron colour ma… The jasmine wreath that you wove m…
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Authorship

You say that father write a lot of… understand. He was reading to you all the even… make out what he meant? What nice stores, mother, you can…
 1
Sleep

In the night of weariness let me give myself up to sleep wit… resting my trust upon thee. Let me not force my flagging spiri… It is thou who drawest the veil of…
 6
(“I found a few old letters...”)

I found a few old letters of mine carefully hidden in thy box—a few small toys for thy memory to play with. With a timorous heart thou didst try to steal these trifles from the...
Pandora, by William Bouguereau
(“Come as you are...”)

Come as you are, tarry not over yo… If your braiding has come loose, i… Come as you are, tarry not over yo… Come with quick steps over the gra… If your feet are pale with the dew…
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Last Curtain

I know that the day will come when my sight of this earth shall… and life will take its leave in si… drawing the last curtain over my e… Yet stars will watch at night,
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Deer Running in the Snow, by Gustave Courbet
The Gardener: 15

I run as a musk-deer runs in the s… The night is the night of mid-May… I lose my way and I wander, I see… From my heart comes out and dances… The gleaming vision flits on.
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Stray Birds 41 - 50

41 THE trees, like the longings of the earth, stand a—tiptoe to peep at the heav… 42
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