Living
Stray Birds 270: The night's flower was late when the morning
Translated by Rabindranath Tagore (1916) · From Stray Birds (1916)
Living
The night's flower was late when the morning kissed her, she shivered and sighed and dropped to the ground.
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Tagore, Rabindranath. “Stray Birds 270: The night's flower was late when the morning.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/457/.
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Tagore, Rabindranath. “Stray Birds 270: The night's flower was late when the morning.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/457/.
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