Religion
Fruit-Gathering 1: Bid me and I shall gather my fruits
Translated by Rabindranath Tagore (1916) · From Fruit-Gathering (1916)
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.
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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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