Living
Stray Birds 251: The night's silence
Translated by Rabindranath Tagore (1916) · From Stray Birds (1916)
Living
The night's silence, like a deep lamp, is burning with the light of its milky way.
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MLA
Tagore, Rabindranath. “Stray Birds 251: The night's silence.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/438/.
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Tagore, Rabindranath. “Stray Birds 251: The night's silence.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/438/.
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