Living

Stray Birds 1: Stray birds of summer come to my window

by Rabindranath Tagore 1861–1941

Translated by Rabindranath Tagore (1916) · From Stray Birds (1916)

Living

Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away.
And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.

MLA

Tagore, Rabindranath. “Stray Birds 1: Stray birds of summer come to my window.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/188/.

Chicago

Tagore, Rabindranath. “Stray Birds 1: Stray birds of summer come to my window.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/188/.

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