Stray Birds 91 - 99

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



THE great earth makes herself hospitable
with the help of the grass.

92

THE birth and death of the leaves
are the rapid whirls of the eddy
whose wider circles
move slowly among stars.

93

POWER said to the world, 'You are mine.
The world kept it prisoner on her throne.
Love said to the world, 'I am thine.'
The world gave it the freedom of her house.

94

THE mist is like the earth's desire.
It hides the sun for whom she cries.

95

BE still,
my heart,
these great trees are prayers.

96

THE noise of the moment
scoffs at the music of the Eternal.

97

I THINK of other ages
that floated upon the stream of life
and love and death and are forgotten,
and I feel the freedom of passing away.

98

THE sadness of my soul is her bride's veil.
It waits to be lifted in the night.

99

DEATH'S stamp gives value to the coin of life;
making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AX XXXX BXBX XX XXX XA XCXX XX CX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 874
Words 177
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 4, 4, 2, 3, 2, 4, 2, 2

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS was an Indian polymath—poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. more…

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