The First Jasmines

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



Ah, these jasmines, these white jasmines!
    I seem to remember the first day when I filled my hands with
these jasmines, these white jasmines.
    I have loved the sunlight, the sky and the green earth;
    I have heard the liquid murmur of the river thorough the
darkness of midnight;
    Autumn sunsets have come to me at the bend of a road in the
lonely waste, like a bride raising her veil to accept her lover.
    Yet my memory is still sweet with the first white jasmines
that I held in my hands when I was a child.
    Many a glad day has come in my life, and I have laughed with
merrymakers on festival nights.
    On grey mornings of rain I have crooned many an idle song.
    I have worn round my neck the evening wreath of bakulas woven
by the hand of love.
    Yet my heart is sweet with the memory of the first fresh
jasmines that filled my hands when I was a child.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 07, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABACDEDFAGBAHIJKG
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 873
Words 168
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 17

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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