Love
The Gardener 22: When she passed by me with quick steps
Translated by Rabindranath Tagore (1915) · From The Gardener (1915)
When she passed by me with quick steps, the end of her skirt touched me.
From the unknown island of a heart came a sudden warm breath of spring.
A flutter of a flitting touch brushed me and vanished in a moment, like a torn flower petal blown in the breeze.
It fell upon my heart like a sigh of her body and whisper of her heart.
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Tagore, Rabindranath. “The Gardener 22: When she passed by me with quick steps.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/124/.
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Tagore, Rabindranath. “The Gardener 22: When she passed by me with quick steps.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/124/.
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