Rabindranath Tagore's Poetry, by popularity

• Broken Song

  Kasinath the new young singer fills the hall with sound:
  The seven notes dance in his throat like seven tame birds.

  82 lines
• Ungrateful Sorrow

  At dawn shey(1) departed
  My mind tried to console me -

  43 lines
• Maran-Milan (Death-Wedding)

  Why do you speak so softly, Death, Death,
  Creep upon me, watch me so stealthily?

  78 lines
• I Cast My Net Into The Sea

  In the morning I cast my net into the sea.
  I dragged up from the dark abyss things of strange aspect and strange beauty -- some shon

  14 lines
• I Found A Few Old Letters

          I found a few old letters of mine carefully hidden in thy box—a few small toys for thy memory to play with

  2 lines, 2 comments
• My Dependence

  I like to be dependent, and so for ever
  with warmth and care of my mother

  18 lines
• Poems On Man

  Man goes into the noisy crowd
  to drown his own clamour of silence.

  24 lines
• I Am Restless

  I am  restless. I am athirst for far-away things.
  My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance.

  14 lines
• Brahmā, Vişņu, Śiva

  I  THE DARK
  In a worldless timeless lightless great emptiness

  139 lines
• The Gardener X: Let Your Work Be, Bride

  Let your work be, bride. Listen, the
  guest has come.

  41 lines
• Keep Me Fully Glad

          Keep me fully glad with nothing. Only take my hand in your hand.
          In the g

  5 lines
• When And Why

  WHEN I bring you coloured toys, my child, I understand why there is such a play of colours on clouds, on water, and why flowers are pain

  6 lines
• The Gardener LXXVI: The Fair Was On

  The fair was on before the temple.
  It had rained from the early morning

  20 lines
• The Gardener XVIII: When Two Sisters

  When the two sisters go to fetch
  water, they come to this spot and

  27 lines
• The Gardener XLII: O Mad, Superbly Drunk

  O mad, superbly drunk;
  If you kick open your doors and

  49 lines
• The Gardener LXXV: At Midnight

  At midnight the would-be ascetic
  announced:

  21 lines
• The Gardener XIV: I Was Walking By The Road

  I was walking by the road, I do not
  know why, when the noonday was past

  41 lines
• The Gardener XLIII: No, My Friends

  No, my friends, I shall never be an
  ascetic, whatever you may say.

  16 lines
• Poems On Beauty

  Beauty is truth's smile
  when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

  9 lines
• The Gardener XLIV: Reverend Sir, Forgive

  Reverend sir, forgive this pair of
  sinners. Spring winds to-day are

  29 lines
• The Gardener LV: It Was Mid-Day

  It was mid-day when you went
  away .

  34 lines
• Poems On Time

  The butterfly counts not months but moments,
  and has time enough.

  16 lines
• The Gardener XX: Day After Day He Comes

  Day after day he comes and goes
  away.

  14 lines
• The Gardener XLV: To The Guests

  To the guests that must go bid
  God's speed and brush away all traces

  14 lines
• Palm Tree

  Palm-tree: single-legged giant,
            topping other trees,

  26 lines
• The Gardener LXXXIII: She Dwelt On The Hillside

  She dwelt on the hillside by edge
  of a maize-field, near the spring that

  58 lines
• The Gardener IX: When I Go Alone At Night

  When I go alone at night to my
  love-tryst, birds do not sing, the wind

  20 lines
• Lover's Gifts LXX: Take Back Your Coins

  Take back your coins, King's Councillor. I am of those women you
  sent to the forest shrine to decoy the young ascetic who had never

  40 lines
• The Gardener LXIV: I Spent My Day

  I spent my day on the scorching
  hot dust of the road.

  31 lines
• Unyielding

  When I called you in your garden
  Mango blooms were rich in fragrance -

  36 lines

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