Religion

Gitanjali 19: If thou speakest not I will fill

by Rabindranath Tagore 1861–1941

Translated by Rabindranath Tagore (1912) · From Gitanjali (1912)

Religion

If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like the night with starry vigil and its head bent low with patience.

The morning will surely come, the darkness will vanish, and thy voice pour down in golden streams breaking through the sky.

Then thy words will take wing in songs from every one of my birds’ nests, and thy melodies will break forth in flowers in all my forest groves.

MLA

Tagore, Rabindranath. “Gitanjali 19: If thou speakest not I will fill.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/18/.

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Tagore, Rabindranath. “Gitanjali 19: If thou speakest not I will fill.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/18/.

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