Love

The Gardener 32: Tell me if this be all true

by Rabindranath Tagore 1861–1941

Translated by Rabindranath Tagore (1915) · From The Gardener (1915)

Love

Tell me if this be all true, my lover, tell me if this be true.
When these eyes flash their lightning the dark clouds in your breast make stormy answer.
Is it true that my lips are sweet like the opening bud of the first conscious love?
Do the memories of vanished months of May linger in my limbs?
Does the earth, like a harp, shiver into songs with the touch of my feet?
Is it then true that the dewdrops fall from the eyes of night when I am seen, and the morning light is glad when it wraps my body round?
Is it true, is it true, that your love travelled alone through ages and worlds in search of me?
That when you found me at last, your age-long desire found utter peace in my gentle speech and my eyes and lips and flowing hair?
Is it then true that the mystery of the Infinite is written on this little forehead of mine?
Tell me, my lover, if all this be true.

MLA

Tagore, Rabindranath. “The Gardener 32: Tell me if this be all true.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/134/.

Chicago

Tagore, Rabindranath. “The Gardener 32: Tell me if this be all true.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/134/.

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