Living
Stray Birds 181: My flower of the day dropped its petals
Translated by Rabindranath Tagore (1916) · From Stray Birds (1916)
Living
My flower of the day dropped its petals forgotten.
In the evening it ripens into a golden fruit of memory.
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MLA
Tagore, Rabindranath. “Stray Birds 181: My flower of the day dropped its petals.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/368/.
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Tagore, Rabindranath. “Stray Birds 181: My flower of the day dropped its petals.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/368/.
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