8 POEMS ON LOVE BY- RABINDRANATH TAGORE
"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf." - TAGORE
1. Unending Love
From "The Gardener"
"I seem to have loved you in numberless forms,
Numberless times…
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever."
2. The First Flower
From "Lover’s Gift and Crossing"
"She who ever had remained in the depth of my being,
In the twilight of gleams and the odour of flowers,
Now stands like a lotus in the open light,
And I know her and salute her and name her my own."
3. Love’s Question
From "Gitanjali"
"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
But to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain,
But for the heart to conquer it.
Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,
But for the patience to win my freedom."
4. The Gift
From "The Crescent Moon"
"I want to give you something, my child,
For we are drifting in the stream of the world.
Our lives will be carried apart,
And my voice will not reach you.
I leave you my love, keep it like a flame."
5. The Boat
From "Gitanjali"
"I am like a remnant of a cloud of autumn,
Uselessly roaming in the sky.
O my sun ever-glorious!
Thy touch has not yet melted my vapor,
Making me one with thy light."
6. The Gardener’s Song
From "The Gardener"
"If you would be busy and fill your pitcher, come,
O come to my lake!
If your heart is a rose and its perfume the truth,
Come, let us whisper together."
7. The Borderland
From "Fruit-Gathering"
"I thought I had something to say to you,
But when I came near,
My words vanished.
I only stammered,
And you smiled."
8. The Farewell
From "The Fugitive"
"When I go from hence,
Let this be my parting word,
That what I have seen is unsurpassable.
I have tasted of the hidden honey of this lotus
That expands on the ocean of light."
