Poetry Codex

Indian

Rabindranath Tagore

1861–1941

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) was a Bengali poet, songwriter, playwright, novelist and educator, born into a prominent family in Calcutta. He wrote chiefly in Bengali, founded a school at Santiniketan, and in 1913 became the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The poems here are his own English prose renderings of his Bengali verse: Gitanjali (Song Offerings, 1912), the devotional poems that W. B. Yeats introduced to English readers, and The Gardener (1915), a gathering of love lyrics and poems of youth and life. Tagore translated them himself, and the English is often freer than the Bengali, abridging or paraphrasing as he saw fit. Two further books of 1916 are also gathered here: Stray Birds, his book of short aphoristic poems, and Fruit-Gathering, a further collection of lyrics. The Crescent Moon (1913), his book of poems about children and their mothers, is gathered here too.

Poems (640)

  1. Gitanjali 1: Thou hast made me endless
  2. Gitanjali 2: When thou commandest me to sing it seems
  3. Gitanjali 3: I know not how thou singest
  4. Gitanjali 4: Life of my life
  5. Gitanjali 5: I ask for a moment’s indulgence to sit
  6. Gitanjali 6: Pluck this little flower and take it
  7. Gitanjali 7: My song has put off her adornments
  8. Gitanjali 8: The child who is decked with prince’s robes
  9. Gitanjali 9: O Fool, try to carry thyself
  10. Gitanjali 10: Here is thy footstool and there rest
  11. Gitanjali 11: Leave this chanting and singing and telling
  12. Gitanjali 12: The time that my journey takes is long
  13. Gitanjali 13: The song that I came to sing remains
  14. Gitanjali 14: My desires are many and my cry
  15. Gitanjali 15: I am here to sing thee songs
  16. Gitanjali 16: I have had my invitation to this world
  17. Gitanjali 17: I am only waiting for love to give
  18. Gitanjali 18: Clouds heap upon clouds and it darkens
  19. Gitanjali 19: If thou speakest not I will fill
  20. Gitanjali 20: On the day when the lotus bloomed
  21. Gitanjali 21: I must launch out my boat
  22. Gitanjali 22: In the deep shadows of the rainy July
  23. Gitanjali 23: Art thou abroad on this stormy night
  24. Gitanjali 24: If the day is done
  25. Gitanjali 25: In the night of weariness let me give
  26. Gitanjali 26: He came and sat by my side
  27. Gitanjali 27: Light, oh where is the light
  28. Gitanjali 28: Obstinate are the trammels
  29. Gitanjali 29: He whom I enclose with my name
  30. Gitanjali 30: I came out alone on my way
  31. Gitanjali 31: Prisoner, tell me
  32. Gitanjali 32: By all means they try to hold
  33. Gitanjali 33: When it was day they came
  34. Gitanjali 34: Let only that little be left
  35. Gitanjali 35: Where the mind is without fear
  36. Gitanjali 36: This is my prayer to thee
  37. Gitanjali 37: I thought that my voyage had come
  38. Gitanjali 38: That I want thee
  39. Gitanjali 39: When the heart is hard and parched up
  40. Gitanjali 40: The rain has held back for days
  41. Gitanjali 41: Where dost thou stand behind them all
  42. Gitanjali 42: Early in the day it was whispered
  43. Gitanjali 43: The day was when I did not keep
  44. Gitanjali 44: This is my delight
  45. Gitanjali 45: Have you not heard his silent steps
  46. Gitanjali 46: I know not from what distant time
  47. Gitanjali 47: The night is nearly spent waiting for him
  48. Gitanjali 48: The morning sea of silence broke into ripples
  49. Gitanjali 49: You came down from your throne and stood
  50. Gitanjali 50: I had gone a-begging from door to door
  51. Gitanjali 51: The night darkened
  52. Gitanjali 52: I thought I should ask of thee
  53. Gitanjali 53: Beautiful is thy wristlet
  54. Gitanjali 54: I asked nothing from thee
  55. Gitanjali 55: Languor is upon your heart and the slumber
  56. Gitanjali 56: Thus it is that thy joy
  57. Gitanjali 57: Light, my light
  58. Gitanjali 58: Let all the strains of joy mingle
  59. Gitanjali 59: Yes, I know
  60. Gitanjali 60: On the seashore of endless worlds children meet
  61. Gitanjali 61: The sleep that flits on baby’s eyes
  62. Gitanjali 62: When I bring to you coloured toys
  63. Gitanjali 63: Thou hast made me known to friends
  64. Gitanjali 64: On the slope of the desolate river
  65. Gitanjali 65: What divine drink wouldst thou have
  66. Gitanjali 66: She who ever had remained in the depth
  67. Gitanjali 67: Thou art the sky and thou art
  68. Gitanjali 68: Thy sunbeam comes upon this earth of mine
  69. Gitanjali 69: The same stream of life that runs through
  70. Gitanjali 70: Is it beyond thee to be glad
  71. Gitanjali 71: That I should make much of myself
  72. Gitanjali 72: He it is
  73. Gitanjali 73: Deliverance is not for me in renunciation
  74. Gitanjali 74: The day is no more
  75. Gitanjali 75: Thy gifts to us mortals fulfil
  76. Gitanjali 76: Day after day
  77. Gitanjali 77: I know thee as my God
  78. Gitanjali 78: When the creation was new
  79. Gitanjali 79: If it is not my portion to meet
  80. Gitanjali 80: I am like a remnant of a cloud
  81. Gitanjali 81: On many an idle day have I grieved
  82. Gitanjali 82: Time is endless in thy hands
  83. Gitanjali 83: Mother, I shall weave a chain of pearls
  84. Gitanjali 84: It is the pang of separation that spreads
  85. Gitanjali 85: When the warriors came out first
  86. Gitanjali 86: Death, thy servant
  87. Gitanjali 87: In desperate hope I go and search
  88. Gitanjali 88: Deity of the ruined temple
  89. Gitanjali 89: No more noisy
  90. Gitanjali 90: On the day when death will knock
  91. Gitanjali 91: O thou the last fulfilment of life
  92. Gitanjali 92: I know that the day will come
  93. Gitanjali 93: I have got my leave
  94. Gitanjali 94: At this time of my parting
  95. Gitanjali 95: I was not aware of the moment
  96. Gitanjali 96: When I go from hence
  97. Gitanjali 97: When my play was with thee I never
  98. Gitanjali 98: I will deck thee with trophies
  99. Gitanjali 99: When I give up the helm I know
  100. Gitanjali 100: I dive down into the depth
  101. Gitanjali 101: Ever in my life have I sought thee
  102. Gitanjali 102: I boasted among men that I had known
  103. Gitanjali 103: In one salutation to thee
  104. The Gardener 1: Have mercy upon your servant
  105. The Gardener 2: Ah, poet, the evening draws near
  106. The Gardener 3: In the morning I cast my net
  107. The Gardener 4: Ah me, why did they build my house
  108. The Gardener 5: I am restless
  109. The Gardener 6: The tame bird was in a cage
  110. The Gardener 7: O mother, the young Prince is to pass
  111. The Gardener 8: When the lamp went out by my bed
  112. The Gardener 9: When I go alone at night
  113. The Gardener 10: Let your work be
  114. The Gardener 11: Come as you are
  115. The Gardener 12: If you would be busy and fill
  116. The Gardener 13: I asked nothing
  117. The Gardener 14: I was walking by the road
  118. The Gardener 15: I run as a musk-deer runs
  119. The Gardener 16: Hands cling to hands and eyes linger
  120. The Gardener 17: The yellow bird sings in their tree
  121. The Gardener 18: When the two sisters go to fetch water
  122. The Gardener 19: You walked by the riverside path
  123. The Gardener 20: Day after day he comes and goes away
  124. The Gardener 21: Why did he choose to come
  125. The Gardener 22: When she passed by me with quick steps
  126. The Gardener 23: Why do you sit there and jingle
  127. The Gardener 24: Do not keep to yourself the secret
  128. The Gardener 25: Come to us
  129. The Gardener 26: What comes from your willing hands I take
  130. The Gardener 27: Trust love even if it brings sorrow
  131. The Gardener 28: Your questioning eyes are sad
  132. The Gardener 29: Speak to me
  133. The Gardener 30: You are the evening cloud floating
  134. The Gardener 31: My heart, the bird of the wilderness
  135. The Gardener 32: Tell me if this be all true
  136. The Gardener 33: I love you
  137. The Gardener 34: Do not go
  138. The Gardener 35: Lest I should know you too easily
  139. The Gardener 36: He whispered, My love
  140. The Gardener 37: Would you put your wreath of fresh flowers
  141. The Gardener 38: My love, once upon a time your poet
  142. The Gardener 39: I try to weave a wreath
  143. The Gardener 40: An unbelieving smile flits on your eyes
  144. The Gardener 41: I long to speak the deepest words
  145. The Gardener 42: O mad, superbly drunk
  146. The Gardener 43: No, my friends
  147. The Gardener 44: Reverend sir, forgive this pair of sinners
  148. The Gardener 45: To the guests that must go
  149. The Gardener 46: You left me and went on your way
  150. The Gardener 47: If you would have it so
  151. The Gardener 48: Free me from the bonds of your sweetness
  152. The Gardener 49: I hold her hands and press
  153. The Gardener 50: Love, my heart longs day and night
  154. The Gardener 51: Then finish the last song and let us
  155. The Gardener 52: Why did the lamp go out
  156. The Gardener 53: Why do you put me to shame
  157. The Gardener 54: Where do you hurry with your basket
  158. The Gardener 55: It was mid-day when you went away
  159. The Gardener 56: I was one among many women busy
  160. The Gardener 57: I plucked your flower
  161. The Gardener 58: One morning in the flower garden a blind
  162. The Gardener 59: O woman, you are not merely the handiwork
  163. The Gardener 60: Amidst the rush and roar of life
  164. The Gardener 61: Peace, my heart
  165. The Gardener 62: In the dusky path of a dream
  166. The Gardener 63: Traveller, must you go
  167. The Gardener 64: I spent my day on the scorching hot
  168. The Gardener 65: Is that your call again
  169. The Gardener 66: A wandering madman was seeking the touchstone
  170. The Gardener 67: Though the evening comes with slow steps
  171. The Gardener 68: None lives for ever
  172. The Gardener 69: I hunt for the golden stag
  173. The Gardener 70: I remember a day in my childhood
  174. The Gardener 71: The day is not yet done
  175. The Gardener 72: With days of hard travail I raised
  176. The Gardener 73: Infinite wealth is not yours
  177. The Gardener 74: In the world's audience hall
  178. The Gardener 75: At midnight the would-be ascetic announced
  179. The Gardener 76: The fair was on before the temple
  180. The Gardener 77: The workman and his wife from the west
  181. The Gardener 78: It was in May
  182. The Gardener 79: I often wonder where lie hidden the boundaries
  183. The Gardener 80: With a glance of your eyes you could
  184. The Gardener 81: Why do you whisper so faintly
  185. The Gardener 82: We are to play the game of death
  186. The Gardener 83: She dwelt on the hillside by the edge
  187. The Gardener 84: Over the green and yellow rice-fields sweep
  188. The Gardener 85: Who are you
  189. Stray Birds 1: Stray birds of summer come to my window
  190. Stray Birds 2: O troupe of little vagrants of the world
  191. Stray Birds 3: The world puts off its mask of vastness
  192. Stray Birds 4: It is the tears of the earth that
  193. Stray Birds 5: The mighty desert is burning for the love
  194. Stray Birds 6: If you shed tears when you miss the
  195. Stray Birds 7: The sands in your way beg for your
  196. Stray Birds 8: Her wistful face haunts my dreams like the
  197. Stray Birds 9: Once we dreamt that we were strangers
  198. Stray Birds 10: Sorrow is hushed into peace in my heart
  199. Stray Birds 11: Some unseen fingers
  200. Stray Birds 12: "What language is thine
  201. Stray Birds 13: Listen
  202. Stray Birds 14: The mystery of creation is like the darkness
  203. Stray Birds 15: Do not seat your love upon a precipice
  204. Stray Birds 16: I sit at my window this morning where
  205. Stray Birds 17: These little thoughts are the rustle of leaves
  206. Stray Birds 18: What you are you do not see
  207. Stray Birds 19: My wishes are fools
  208. Stray Birds 20: I cannot choose the best
  209. Stray Birds 21: They throw their shadows before them who carry
  210. Stray Birds 22: That I exist is a perpetual surprise which
  211. Stray Birds 23: "We
  212. Stray Birds 24: Rest belongs to the work as the eyelids
  213. Stray Birds 25: Man is a born child
  214. Stray Birds 26: God expects answers for the flowers he sends
  215. Stray Birds 27: The light that plays
  216. Stray Birds 28: O Beauty
  217. Stray Birds 29: My heart beats her waves at the shore
  218. Stray Birds 30: "Moon
  219. Stray Birds 31: The trees come up to my window like
  220. Stray Birds 32: His own mornings are new surprises to God
  221. Stray Birds 33: Life finds its wealth by the claims of
  222. Stray Birds 34: The dry river-bed finds no thanks for its
  223. Stray Birds 35: The bird wishes it were a cloud
  224. Stray Birds 36: The waterfall sings
  225. Stray Birds 37: I cannot tell why this heart languishes in
  226. Stray Birds 38: Woman
  227. Stray Birds 39: The sun goes to cross the Western sea
  228. Stray Birds 40: Do not blame your food because you have
  229. Stray Birds 41: The trees
  230. Stray Birds 42: You smiled and talked to me of nothing
  231. Stray Birds 43: The fish in the water is silent
  232. Stray Birds 44: The world rushes on over the strings of
  233. Stray Birds 45: He has made his weapons his gods
  234. Stray Birds 46: God finds himself by creating
  235. Stray Birds 47: Shadow
  236. Stray Birds 48: The stars are not afraid to appear like
  237. Stray Birds 49: I thank thee that I am none of
  238. Stray Birds 50: The mind
  239. Stray Birds 51: Your idol is shattered in the dust to
  240. Stray Birds 52: Man does not reveal himself in his history
  241. Stray Birds 53: While the glass lamp rebukes the earthen for
  242. Stray Birds 54: Like the meeting of the seagulls and the
  243. Stray Birds 55: My day is done
  244. Stray Birds 56: Life is given to us
  245. Stray Birds 57: We come nearest to the great when we
  246. Stray Birds 58: The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at
  247. Stray Birds 59: Never be afraid of the moments
  248. Stray Birds 60: The hurricane seeks the shortest road by the
  249. Stray Birds 61: Take my wine in my own cup
  250. Stray Birds 62: The Perfect decks itself in beauty for the
  251. Stray Birds 63: God says to man
  252. Stray Birds 64: Thank the flame for its light
  253. Stray Birds 65: Tiny grass
  254. Stray Birds 66: The infant flower opens its bud and cries
  255. Stray Birds 67: God grows weary of great kingdoms
  256. Stray Birds 68: Wrong cannot afford defeat but Right can
  257. Stray Birds 69: "I give my whole water in joy," sings
  258. Stray Birds 70: Where is the fountain that throws up these
  259. Stray Birds 71: The woodcutter's axe begged for its handle from
  260. Stray Birds 72: In my solitude of heart I feel the
  261. Stray Birds 73: Chastity is a wealth that comes from abundance
  262. Stray Birds 74: The mist
  263. Stray Birds 75: We read the world wrong and say that
  264. Stray Birds 76: The poet wind is out over the sea
  265. Stray Birds 77: Every child comes with the message that God
  266. Stray Birds 78: The grass seeks her crowd in the earth
  267. Stray Birds 79: Man barricades against himself
  268. Stray Birds 80: Your voice
  269. Stray Birds 81: What is this unseen flame of darkness whose
  270. Stray Birds 82: Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and
  271. Stray Birds 83: He who wants to do good knocks at
  272. Stray Birds 84: In death the many becomes one
  273. Stray Birds 85: The artist is the lover of Nature
  274. Stray Birds 86: "How far are you from me
  275. Stray Birds 87: This longing is for the one who is
  276. Stray Birds 88: "You are the big drop of dew under
  277. Stray Birds 89: The scabbard is content to be dull when
  278. Stray Birds 90: In darkness the One appears as uniform
  279. Stray Birds 91: The great earth makes herself hospitable with the
  280. Stray Birds 92: The birth and death of the leaves are
  281. Stray Birds 93: Power said to the world
  282. Stray Birds 94: The mist is like the earth's desire
  283. Stray Birds 95: Be still
  284. Stray Birds 96: The noise of the moment scoffs at the
  285. Stray Birds 97: I think of other ages that floated upon
  286. Stray Birds 98: The sadness of my soul is her bride's
  287. Stray Birds 99: Death's stamp gives value to the coin of
  288. Stray Birds 100: The cloud stood humbly in a corner of
  289. Stray Birds 101: The dust receives insult and in return offers
  290. Stray Birds 102: Do not linger to gather flowers to keep
  291. Stray Birds 103: Roots are the branches down in the earth
  292. Stray Birds 104: The music of the far-away summer flutters around
  293. Stray Birds 105: Do not insult your friend by lending him
  294. Stray Birds 106: The touch of the nameless days clings to
  295. Stray Birds 107: The echo mocks her origin to prove she
  296. Stray Birds 108: God is ashamed when the prosperous boasts of
  297. Stray Birds 109: I cast my own shadow upon my path
  298. Stray Birds 110: Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown
  299. Stray Birds 111: That which ends in exhaustion is death
  300. Stray Birds 112: The sun has his simple robe of light
  301. Stray Birds 113: The hills are like shouts of children who
  302. Stray Birds 114: The road is lonely in its crowd for
  303. Stray Birds 115: The power that boasts of its mischiefs is
  304. Stray Birds 116: The earth hums to me to-day in the
  305. Stray Birds 117: The grass-blade is worth of the great world
  306. Stray Birds 118: Dream is a wife who must talk
  307. Stray Birds 119: The night kisses the fading day whispering to
  308. Stray Birds 120: I feel
  309. Stray Birds 121: I carry in my world that flourishes the
  310. Stray Birds 122: Dear friend
  311. Stray Birds 123: The bird thinks it is an act of
  312. Stray Birds 124: "In the moon thou sendest thy love letters
  313. Stray Birds 125: The Great is a born child
  314. Stray Birds 126: Not hammerstrokes
  315. Stray Birds 127: Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their
  316. Stray Birds 128: To be outspoken is easy when you do
  317. Stray Birds 129: Asks the Possible to the Impossible
  318. Stray Birds 130: If you shut your door to all errors
  319. Stray Birds 131: I hear some rustle of things behind my
  320. Stray Birds 132: Leisure in its activity is work
  321. Stray Birds 133: The leaf becomes flower when it loves
  322. Stray Birds 134: The roots below the earth claim no rewards
  323. Stray Birds 135: This rainy evening the wind is restless
  324. Stray Birds 136: Storm of midnight
  325. Stray Birds 137: Thou raisest thy waves vainly to follow thy
  326. Stray Birds 138: "I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the
  327. Stray Birds 139: Time is the wealth of change
  328. Stray Birds 140: Truth in her dress finds facts too tight
  329. Stray Birds 141: When I travelled to here and to there
  330. Stray Birds 142: Let me think that there is one among
  331. Stray Birds 143: Woman
  332. Stray Birds 144: One sad voice has its nest among the
  333. Stray Birds 145: The flaming fire warns me off by its
  334. Stray Birds 146: I have my stars in the sky
  335. Stray Birds 147: The dust of the dead words clings to
  336. Stray Birds 148: Gaps are left in life through which comes
  337. Stray Birds 149: The world has opened its heart of light
  338. Stray Birds 150: My thoughts shimmer with these shimmering leaves and
  339. Stray Birds 151: God's great power is in the gentle breeze
  340. Stray Birds 152: This is a dream in which things are
  341. Stray Birds 153: "Who is there to take up my duties?"
  342. Stray Birds 154: By plucking her petals you do not gather
  343. Stray Birds 155: Silence will carry your voice like the nest
  344. Stray Birds 156: The Great walks with the Small without fear
  345. Stray Birds 157: The night opens the flowers in secret and
  346. Stray Birds 158: Power takes as ingratitude the writhings of its
  347. Stray Birds 159: When we rejoice in our fulness
  348. Stray Birds 160: The raindrops kissed the earth and whispered
  349. Stray Birds 161: The cobweb pretends to catch dew-drops and catches
  350. Stray Birds 162: Love
  351. Stray Birds 163: "The learned say that your lights will one
  352. Stray Birds 164: In the dusk of the evening the bird
  353. Stray Birds 165: Thoughts pass in my mind like flocks of
  354. Stray Birds 166: The canal loves to think that rivers exist
  355. Stray Birds 167: The world has kissed my soul with its
  356. Stray Birds 168: That which oppresses me
  357. Stray Birds 169: Thought feeds itself with its own words and
  358. Stray Birds 170: I have dipped the vessel of my heart
  359. Stray Birds 171: Either you have work or you have not
  360. Stray Birds 172: The sunflower blushed to own the nameless flower
  361. Stray Birds 173: "Who drives me forward like fate?" "The Myself
  362. Stray Birds 174: The clouds fill the watercups of the river
  363. Stray Birds 175: I spill water from my water jar as
  364. Stray Birds 176: The water in a vessel is sparkling
  365. Stray Birds 177: Your smile was the flowers of your own
  366. Stray Birds 178: It is the little things that I leave
  367. Stray Birds 179: Woman
  368. Stray Birds 180: The sunshine greets me with a smile
  369. Stray Birds 181: My flower of the day dropped its petals
  370. Stray Birds 182: I am like the road in the night
  371. Stray Birds 183: The evening sky to me is like a
  372. Stray Birds 184: He who is too busy doing good finds
  373. Stray Birds 185: I am the autumn cloud
  374. Stray Birds 186: They hated and killed and men praised them
  375. Stray Birds 187: Toes are the fingers that have forsaken their
  376. Stray Birds 188: Darkness travels towards light
  377. Stray Birds 189: The pet dog suspects the universe for scheming
  378. Stray Birds 190: Sit still my heart
  379. Stray Birds 191: The bow whispers to the arrow before it
  380. Stray Birds 192: Woman
  381. Stray Birds 193: A mind all logic is like a knife
  382. Stray Birds 194: God loves man's lamp lights better than his
  383. Stray Birds 195: This world is the world of wild storms
  384. Stray Birds 196: "My heart is like the golden casket of
  385. Stray Birds 197: By touching you may kill
  386. Stray Birds 198: The cricket's chirp and the patter of rain
  387. Stray Birds 199: "I have lost my dewdrop," cries the flower
  388. Stray Birds 200: The burning log bursts in flame and cries
  389. Stray Birds 201: The wasp thinks that the honey-hive of the
  390. Stray Birds 202: "I cannot keep your waves," says the bank
  391. Stray Birds 203: The day
  392. Stray Birds 204: The song feels the infinite in the air
  393. Stray Birds 205: When the sun goes down to the West
  394. Stray Birds 206: Let me not put myself wrongly to my
  395. Stray Birds 207: Praise shames me
  396. Stray Birds 208: Let my doing nothing when I have nothing
  397. Stray Birds 209: Maiden
  398. Stray Birds 210: The best does not come alone
  399. Stray Birds 211: God's right hand is gentle
  400. Stray Birds 212: My evening came among the alien trees and
  401. Stray Birds 213: Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with
  402. Stray Birds 214: Our desire lends the colours of the rainbow
  403. Stray Birds 215: God waits to win back his own flowers
  404. Stray Birds 216: My sad thoughts tease me asking me their
  405. Stray Birds 217: The service of the fruit is precious
  406. Stray Birds 218: My heart has spread its sails to the
  407. Stray Birds 219: Men are cruel
  408. Stray Birds 220: Make me thy cup and let my fulness
  409. Stray Birds 221: The storm is like the cry of some
  410. Stray Birds 222: The world does not leak because death is
  411. Stray Birds 223: Life has become richer by the love that
  412. Stray Birds 224: My friend
  413. Stray Birds 225: The fountain of death makes the still water
  414. Stray Birds 226: Those who have everything but thee
  415. Stray Birds 227: The movement of life has its rest in
  416. Stray Birds 228: Kicks only raise dust and not crops from
  417. Stray Birds 229: Our names are the light that glows on
  418. Stray Birds 230: Let him only see the thorns who has
  419. Stray Birds 231: Set bird's wings with gold and it will
  420. Stray Birds 232: The same lotus of our clime blooms here
  421. Stray Birds 233: In heart's perspective the distance looms large
  422. Stray Birds 234: The moon has her light all over the
  423. Stray Birds 235: Do not say
  424. Stray Birds 236: Smoke boasts to the sky
  425. Stray Birds 237: The raindrop whispered to the jasmine
  426. Stray Birds 238: Timid thoughts
  427. Stray Birds 239: The dim silence of my mind seems filled
  428. Stray Birds 240: Rockets
  429. Stray Birds 241: Thou hast led me through my crowded travels
  430. Stray Birds 242: This life is the crossing of a sea
  431. Stray Birds 243: The stream of truth flows through its channels
  432. Stray Birds 244: My heart is homesick to-day for the one
  433. Stray Birds 245: The bird-song is the echo of the morning
  434. Stray Birds 246: "Are you too proud to kiss me?" the
  435. Stray Birds 247: "How may I sing to thee and worship
  436. Stray Birds 248: Man is worse than an animal when he
  437. Stray Birds 249: Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by
  438. Stray Birds 250: Let not the sword-blade mock its handle for
  439. Stray Birds 251: The night's silence
  440. Stray Birds 252: Around the sunny island of Life swells day
  441. Stray Birds 253: Is not this mountain like a flower
  442. Stray Birds 254: The real with its meaning read wrong and
  443. Stray Birds 255: Find your beauty
  444. Stray Birds 256: The eyes are not proud of their sight
  445. Stray Birds 257: I live in this little world of mine
  446. Stray Birds 258: The false can never grow into truth by
  447. Stray Birds 259: My heart
  448. Stray Birds 260: Wayside grass
  449. Stray Birds 261: Let your music
  450. Stray Birds 262: The trembling leaves of this tree touch my
  451. Stray Birds 263: This sadness of my soul is her bride's
  452. Stray Birds 264: The little flower lies in the dust
  453. Stray Birds 265: I am in the world of the roads
  454. Stray Birds 266: I have sung the songs of thy day
  455. Stray Birds 267: I do not ask thee into the house
  456. Stray Birds 268: Death belongs to life as birth does
  457. Stray Birds 269: I have learnt the simple meaning of thy
  458. Stray Birds 270: The night's flower was late when the morning
  459. Stray Birds 271: Through the sadness of all things I hear
  460. Stray Birds 272: I came to your shore as a stranger
  461. Stray Birds 273: Let my thoughts come to you
  462. Stray Birds 274: Light in my heart the evening star of
  463. Stray Birds 275: I am a child in the dark
  464. Stray Birds 276: The day of work is done
  465. Stray Birds 277: The lamp of meeting burns long
  466. Stray Birds 278: One word keep for me in thy silence
  467. Stray Birds 279: We live in this world when we love
  468. Stray Birds 280: Let the dead have the immortality of fame
  469. Stray Birds 281: I have seen thee as the half-awakened child
  470. Stray Birds 282: I shall die again and again to know
  471. Stray Birds 283: While I was passing with the crowd in
  472. Stray Birds 284: Love is life in its fulness like the
  473. Stray Birds 285: They light their own lamps and sing their
  474. Stray Birds 286: Lead me in the centre of thy silence
  475. Stray Birds 287: Let them live who choose in their own
  476. Stray Birds 288: Love's pain sang round my life like the
  477. Stray Birds 289: Put out the lamp when thou wishest
  478. Stray Birds 290: When I stand before thee at the day's
  479. Stray Birds 291: Some day I shall sing to thee in
  480. Stray Birds 292: Clouds come floating into my life from other
  481. Stray Birds 293: Truth raises against itself the storm that scatters
  482. Stray Birds 294: The storm of the last night has crowned
  483. Stray Birds 295: Truth seems to come with its final word
  484. Stray Birds 296: Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine
  485. Stray Birds 297: Sweetness of thy name fills my heart when
  486. Stray Birds 298: The silent night has the beauty of the
  487. Stray Birds 299: The world loved man when he smiled
  488. Stray Birds 300: God waits for man to regain his childhood
  489. Stray Birds 301: Let me feel this world as thy love
  490. Stray Birds 302: Thy sunshine smiles upon the winter days of
  491. Stray Birds 303: God kisses the finite in his love and
  492. Stray Birds 304: Thou crossest desert lands of barren years to
  493. Stray Birds 305: God's silence ripens man's thoughts into speech
  494. Stray Birds 306: Thou wilt find
  495. Stray Birds 307: Let me not shame thee
  496. Stray Birds 308: Cheerless is the day
  497. Stray Birds 309: To-night there is a stir among the palm
  498. Stray Birds 310: I dream of a star
  499. Stray Birds 311: The smell of the wet earth in the
  500. Stray Birds 312: That love can ever lose is a fact
  501. Stray Birds 313: We shall know some day that death can
  502. Stray Birds 314: God comes to me in the dusk of
  503. Stray Birds 315: When all the strings of my life will
  504. Stray Birds 316: Let me live truly
  505. Stray Birds 317: Man's history is waiting in patience for the
  506. Stray Birds 318: I feel thy gaze upon my heart this
  507. Stray Birds 319: I long for the Island of Songs across
  508. Stray Birds 320: The prelude of the night is commenced in
  509. Stray Birds 321: I have scaled the peak and found no
  510. Stray Birds 322: Things look phantastic in this dimness of the
  511. Stray Birds 323: I have suffered and despaired and known death
  512. Stray Birds 324: There are tracts in my life that are
  513. Stray Birds 325: Release me from my unfulfilled past clinging to
  514. Stray Birds 326: Let this be my last word
  515. Fruit-Gathering 1: Bid me and I shall gather my fruits
  516. Fruit-Gathering 2: My life when young was like a flower
  517. Fruit-Gathering 3: Is summer's festival only for fresh blossoms and
  518. Fruit-Gathering 4: I woke and found his letter with the
  519. Fruit-Gathering 5: A handful of dust could hide your signal
  520. Fruit-Gathering 6: Where roads are made I lose my way
  521. Fruit-Gathering 7: Alas
  522. Fruit-Gathering 8: Be ready to launch forth
  523. Fruit-Gathering 9: When I lingered among my hoarded treasure I
  524. Fruit-Gathering 10: You took my hand and drew me to
  525. Fruit-Gathering 11: It decks me only to mock me
  526. Fruit-Gathering 12: Far below flowed the Jumna
  527. Fruit-Gathering 13: To move is to meet you every moment
  528. Fruit-Gathering 14: My portion of the best in this world
  529. Fruit-Gathering 15: Your speech is simple
  530. Fruit-Gathering 16: They knew the way and went to seek
  531. Fruit-Gathering 17: I brought out my earthen lamp from my
  532. Fruit-Gathering 18: No
  533. Fruit-Gathering 19: Sudâs
  534. Fruit-Gathering 20: Make me thy poet
  535. Fruit-Gathering 21: I will meet one day the Life within
  536. Fruit-Gathering 22: This autumn morning is tired with excess of
  537. Fruit-Gathering 23: The poet's mind floats and dances on the
  538. Fruit-Gathering 24: The night is dark and your slumber is
  539. Fruit-Gathering 25: The bird of the morning sings
  540. Fruit-Gathering 26: The beggar in me lifted his lean hands
  541. Fruit-Gathering 27: Sanâtan was telling his beads by the Ganges
  542. Fruit-Gathering 28: Time after time I came to your gate
  543. Fruit-Gathering 29: You have set me among those who are
  544. Fruit-Gathering 30: A smile of mirth spread over the sky
  545. Fruit-Gathering 31: "Who among you will take up the duty
  546. Fruit-Gathering 32: My king was unknown to me
  547. Fruit-Gathering 33: When I thought I would mould you
  548. Fruit-Gathering 34: "Sire," announced the servant to the King
  549. Fruit-Gathering 35: The trumpet lies in the dust
  550. Fruit-Gathering 36: When
  551. Fruit-Gathering 37: Upagupta
  552. Fruit-Gathering 38: This is no mere dallying of love between
  553. Fruit-Gathering 39: The wall breaks asunder
  554. Fruit-Gathering 40: O fire
  555. Fruit-Gathering 41: The Boatman is out crossing the wild sea
  556. Fruit-Gathering 42: I cling to this living raft
  557. Fruit-Gathering 43: Over the relic of Lord Buddha King Bimbisâr
  558. Fruit-Gathering 44: The day that stands between you and me
  559. Fruit-Gathering 45: My night has passed on the bed of
  560. Fruit-Gathering 46: The time is past when I could repay
  561. Fruit-Gathering 47: I found a few old letters of mine
  562. Fruit-Gathering 48: Bring beauty and order into my forlorn life
  563. Fruit-Gathering 49: The pain was great when the strings were
  564. Fruit-Gathering 50: In the lightning flash of a moment I
  565. Fruit-Gathering 51: I know that at the dim end of
  566. Fruit-Gathering 52: What music is that in whose measure the
  567. Fruit-Gathering 53: I have kissed this world with my eyes
  568. Fruit-Gathering 54: The Cloud said to me
  569. Fruit-Gathering 55: Tulsidas
  570. Fruit-Gathering 56: You came for a moment to my side
  571. Fruit-Gathering 57: Who is she who dwells in my heart
  572. Fruit-Gathering 58: Yours is the light that breaks forth from
  573. Fruit-Gathering 59: When the weariness of the road is upon
  574. Fruit-Gathering 60: The odour cries in the bud
  575. Fruit-Gathering 61: She is still a child
  576. Fruit-Gathering 62: "What is there but the sky
  577. Fruit-Gathering 63: Not for me is the love that knows
  578. Fruit-Gathering 64: The sun had set on the western margin
  579. Fruit-Gathering 65: May be there is one house in this
  580. Fruit-Gathering 66: Listen
  581. Fruit-Gathering 67: You always stand alone beyond the stream of
  582. Fruit-Gathering 68: Suddenly the window of my heart flew open
  583. Fruit-Gathering 69: You were in the centre of my heart
  584. Fruit-Gathering 70: When you hold your lamp in the sky
  585. Fruit-Gathering 71: O the waves
  586. Fruit-Gathering 72: The joy ran from all the world to
  587. Fruit-Gathering 73: The spring with its leaves and flowers has
  588. Fruit-Gathering 74: My bonds are cut
  589. Fruit-Gathering 75: It was only the other day that I
  590. Fruit-Gathering 76: Timidly I cowered in the shadow of safety
  591. Fruit-Gathering 77: The world is yours at once and for
  592. Fruit-Gathering 78: To the birds you gave songs
  593. Fruit-Gathering 79: Let me not pray to be sheltered from
  594. Fruit-Gathering 80: You did not know yourself when you dwelt
  595. Fruit-Gathering 81: You
  596. Fruit-Gathering 82: I will utter your name
  597. Fruit-Gathering 83: I I feel that all the stars shine
  598. Fruit-Gathering 84: The Oarsmen
  599. Fruit-Gathering 85: The Song Of The Defeated
  600. Fruit-Gathering 86: Thanksgiving
  601. The Crescent Moon: The Home
  602. The Crescent Moon: On the Seashore
  603. The Crescent Moon: The Source
  604. The Crescent Moon: Baby's Way
  605. The Crescent Moon: The Unheeded Pageant
  606. The Crescent Moon: Sleep-Stealer
  607. The Crescent Moon: The Beginning
  608. The Crescent Moon: Baby's World
  609. The Crescent Moon: When and Why
  610. The Crescent Moon: Defamation
  611. The Crescent Moon: The Judge
  612. The Crescent Moon: Playthings
  613. The Crescent Moon: The Astronomer
  614. The Crescent Moon: Clouds and Waves
  615. The Crescent Moon: The Champa Flower
  616. The Crescent Moon: Fairyland
  617. The Crescent Moon: The Land of the Exile
  618. The Crescent Moon: The Rainy Day
  619. The Crescent Moon: Paper Boats
  620. The Crescent Moon: The Sailor
  621. The Crescent Moon: The Further Bank
  622. The Crescent Moon: The Flower-School
  623. The Crescent Moon: The Merchant
  624. The Crescent Moon: Sympathy
  625. The Crescent Moon: Vocation
  626. The Crescent Moon: Superior
  627. The Crescent Moon: The Little Big Man
  628. The Crescent Moon: Twelve O'clock
  629. The Crescent Moon: Authorship
  630. The Crescent Moon: The Wicked Postman
  631. The Crescent Moon: The Hero
  632. The Crescent Moon: The End
  633. The Crescent Moon: The Recall
  634. The Crescent Moon: The First Jasmines
  635. The Crescent Moon: The Banyan Tree
  636. The Crescent Moon: Benediction
  637. The Crescent Moon: The Gift
  638. The Crescent Moon: My Song
  639. The Crescent Moon: The Child-Angel
  640. The Crescent Moon: The Last Bargain

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