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Rabindranath Tagore's Poetry, by title

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  • At The Last Watch
    Pity, in place of love,
        That pettiest of gifts,
    64 lines, 3 comments
  • Authorship
    You say that father write a lot of books, but what he writes I don't
    understand.
    28 lines, 2 comments
  • Baby's Way
    If baby only wanted to, he could fly up to heaven this moment.
    It is not for nothing that he does not leave us.
    26 lines, 2 comments
  • Baby's World
    I wish I could take a quiet corner in the heart of my baby's very
    own world.
    13 lines, 6 comments
  • Beggarly Heart
    When the heart is hard and parched up,
    come upon me with a shower of mercy.
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • Benediction
    Bless this little heart, this white soul that has won the kiss of
    heaven for our earth.
    17 lines, 2 comments
  • Brahmā, Vişņu, Śiva
    I  THE DARK
    In a worldless timeless lightless great emptiness
    139 lines
  • Brink Of Eternity
    In desperate hope I go and search for her
    in all the corners of my room;
    15 lines, 5 comments
  • 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
  • Chain Of Pearls
    Mother, I shall weave a chain of pearls for thy neck
    with my tears of sorrow.
    9 lines, 1 comment
  • Closed Path
    I thought that my voyage had come to its end
    at the last limit of my power,---that the path before me was closed,
    9 lines
  • Clouds And Waves
    Mother, the folk who live up in the clouds call out to me-
        "We play from the time we wake till the day ends.
    26 lines, 2 comments
  • Colored Toys
    When I bring to you colored toys, my child,
    I understand why there is such a play of colors on clouds, on water,
    18 lines, 4 comments
  • Death
    O thou the last fulfilment of life,
    Death, my death, come and whisper to me!
    12 lines
  • Defamation
    Where are those tears in your eyes, my child?
    How horrid of them to be always scolding you for nothing!
    17 lines
  • Distant Time
    I know not from what distant time
    thou art ever coming nearer to meet me.
    9 lines
  • Dungeon
    He whom I enclose with my name is weeping in this dungeon.
    I am ever busy building this wall all around; and as this wall goes up into
    6 lines, 3 comments
  • Endless Time
    Time is endless in thy hands, my lord.
    There is none to count thy minutes.
    13 lines, 1 comment
  • Face To Face
    Day after day, O lord of my life,
    shall I stand before thee face to face.
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • Fairyland
    If people came to know where my king's palace is, it would vanish
    into the air.
    28 lines, 1 comment
  • Farewell
    I have got my leave. Bid me farewell, my brothers!
    I bow to you all and take my departure.
    10 lines
  • Fireflies
    I touch God in my song
    as the hill touches the far-away sea
    661 lines
  • Flower
    Pluck this little flower and take it, delay not! I fear lest it
    droop and drop into the dust.
    8 lines
  • Fool
    O Fool, try to carry thyself upon thy own shoulders!
    O beggar, to come beg at thy own door!
    8 lines
  • Free Love
    By all means they try to hold me secure who love me in this world.
    But it is otherwise with thy love which is greater than theirs,
    7 lines, 1 comment
  • Freedom
    Freedom from fear is the freedom
    I claim for you my motherland!
    17 lines, 9 comments
  • Friend
    Art thou abroad on this stormy night
    on thy journey of love, my friend?
    14 lines
  • From Afar
    The 'I' that floats along the wave of time,
    From a distance I watch him.
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • Gitanjali
    Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.
    1096 lines, 2 comments
  • Give Me Strength
    This is my prayer to thee, my lord---strike,
    strike at the root of penury in my heart.
    7 lines
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