Living

Stray Birds 18: What you are you do not see

by Rabindranath Tagore 1861–1941

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

Living

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

MLA

Tagore, Rabindranath. “Stray Birds 18: What you are you do not see.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/205/.

Chicago

Tagore, Rabindranath. “Stray Birds 18: What you are you do not see.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/205/.

Read this poem with the Codex →

More by Rabindranath Tagore