Living
Stray Birds 5: The mighty desert is burning for the love
Translated by Rabindranath Tagore (1916) · From Stray Birds (1916)
Living
The mighty desert is burning for the love of a blade of grass who shakes her head and laughs and flies away.
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MLA
Tagore, Rabindranath. “Stray Birds 5: The mighty desert is burning for the love.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/192/.
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Tagore, Rabindranath. “Stray Birds 5: The mighty desert is burning for the love.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/192/.
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