Religion

Fruit-Gathering 1: Bid me and I shall gather my fruits

by Rabindranath Tagore 1861–1941

Translated by Rabindranath Tagore (1916) · From Fruit-Gathering (1916)

Religion

Bid me and I shall gather my fruits to bring them in full baskets into your courtyard, though some are lost and some not ripe.

For the season grows heavy with its fulness, and there is a plaintive shepherd's pipe in the shade.

Bid me and I shall set sail on the river.

The March wind is fretful, fretting the languid waves into murmurs.

The garden has yielded its all, and in the weary hour of evening the call comes from your house on the shore in the sunset.

MLA

Tagore, Rabindranath. “Fruit-Gathering 1: Bid me and I shall gather my fruits.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/514/.

Chicago

Tagore, Rabindranath. “Fruit-Gathering 1: Bid me and I shall gather my fruits.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/514/.

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