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Gitanjali
Let all my songs gather together their diverse strains into a single current and flow to a sea of silence in one salutation to thee.
Like a flock of homesick cranes flying night and day back to their mountain nests let all my life take its voyage to its eternal home in one salutation to thee.
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These translations are of poems con- tained in three books — Naivedya, Kheyi, and Gitanjali — to be had at the "Visva- Bharati" Office, 6, Dwarkanath Tagore Lane, Calcutta; and of a few poems which have appeared only in periodicals.
INDEX OF FIRST WORDS
No.
Art thou abroad on this stormy night 23 At this time of my parting, wish me good
luck 94
Beautiful is thy wristlet, decked with stars 53
By all means they try to bold me secure 3a
Clouds heap upon clouds 18
Day after day, O lord of my life, shall I stand 76
Death, thy servant, is at my door 86 Deity of the ruined temple/ The broken
strings 88
Deliverance is not for me in renunciation 73
Early in the day it was whispered 4a Ever in my life have I sought thee 101
Have you not beard bis silent steps? 45
He came and sat by my side 26
He it is, the innermost one 7a He whom I enclose with my name is weeping 29
Here is thy footstool 10 119
Index of First Words
1 am here to sing thee songs 15
/ am like a remnant of a cloud of autumn 80
/ am only waiting for love 17
/ ask for a moment's indulgence 5
/ asked nothing from thee; I uttered not 54
/ boasted among men that I had known you 102
/ came out alone on my way 30
/ dive down into the depth of the ocean 100
/ had gone a-begging from door to door 50
/ have got my leave. Bid me farewell 93
/ have had my invitation 16
1 know not from what distant time 46
/ know not how thou srngest, my master! 3 / know that the day will come when my sight 92
7 know thee as my God and stand apart 77
/ must launch out my boat 21 / thought 1 should ask of thee — but I dare
not — 52 7 thought that my voyage had come to its end 37
7 was not aware of the moment 95
7 will deck thee with trophies 98
If it is not my portion to meet thee 79
If the day is done, if birds sing no more 24
If thou speakest not 7 will fill my heart 19
In desperate hope I go and search for her 87
In one salutation to thee, my God 103
772 the deep shadows of the rainy July 22 In the night of weariness let me give myself
up 25
75 it beyond thee to be glad with the gladness 70
It is the pang of separation 84
Languor is upon your heart $$ 120
Index of First Words
Leave this chanting and singing 1 1 Let all the strains of joy mingle in my last
song 58
Let only that little be left of me 34
Life of my life, I shall ever try 4
Light, my light, the world-filling light 57
Light, oh where is the light? 27
Mother, I shall weave a chain of pearls 83
My desires are many and my cry is pitiful 14
My song has put off her adornments 7
No more noisy, loud words from me 89
O fool, to try to carry thyself 9
O Thou the last fulfilment of life 91
Obstinate are the trammels 28
On many an idle day have I grieved 81 On the day when death will knock at thy
door 90
On the day when the lotus bloomed 20 On the seashore of endless worlds children
meet 60 On the slope of the desolate river among tall
grasses 64
Pluck this little flower 6
Prisoner, tell me, who was it 31
She who ever had remained in the depth 66
That I should make much of myself 71
That I want thee, only thee 38
The child who is decked with prince's robes 8 The day is no more, the shadow is upon the
earth 74
The day was when 1 did not keep myself 43 121
Index of First Words
Tbe morning sea of silence broke into ripples 48 The night darkened. Our day's works bad
been done 51
The night is nearly spent looking for bim 47
The rain bos held back for days and days 40 Tbe same stream of life that runs through
my veins 69
The sleep that flits on baby's eyes 61
The song that I came to sing remains unsung 13
The time that my journey takes is long 12
This is my delight, thus to wait and watch 44
This is my prayer to thee, my lord 36
Thou art the sky and thou art tbe nest 67
Tbou bast made me endless 1 Thou bast made me known to friends whom
I knew not 63
Thus it is that thy joy in me is so full 56
Tby gifts to us mortals fulfil all our needs 75
Thy sunbeam comes upon this earth of mine 68
Time is endless in tby bands, my lord 8a
What divine drink wouldst tbou have, my
God 6s
When 1 bring to you coloured toys, my child 62 When I give up tbe helm I know that tbe
time bos come 99 When I go from hence let ibis be my parting
word 96
When it was day they came into my bouse 33 When my play was with thee I never
questioned yj When tbe creation was new and all tbe stars
shone 78 122
Index of First Words
When the heart is hard and parched up 39
When the warriors came out first 85
When thou commandest me to sing 2
Where dost thou stand behind them all 41
Where the mind is without fear 35
Yes, 1 know, this is nothing but thy love 59
You came down from your throne 49
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POETRY/RELIGION
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"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action—
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake."
Rabindranath Tagore, an Indian national figure, was a poet, novelist, and playwright. Before his death in 1941, he was awarded a Nobel prize for literature.
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