Stray Birds 11- 20

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



11
SOME unseen fingers, like idle breeze,
are playing upon my heart the music of the ripples.

12

'WHAT language is thine, O sea?'
'The language of eternal question.'
'What language is thy answer, O sky?
'The language of eternal silence.'

13

LISTEN,
my heart,
to the whispers of the world
with which it makes love to you.

14

THE mystery of creation
is like the darkness of night--
it is great.

Delusions of knowledge are like
the fog of the morning.

15

DO not seat your love upon a precipice because it is high.
16

I SIT at my window this morning
where the world like a passer-by stops for a moment,
nods to me and goes.

17

THESE little thoughts are the rustle of leaves;
they have their whisper of
joy in my mind.

18

WHAT you are you do not see,
what you see is your shadow.

19

MY wishes are fools, they shout across thy songs, my Master.
Let me but listen.

20

I CANNOT choose the best.
The best chooses me.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 19, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXX BCDX CXXX CXX XE DA EXX XXX BX XC XB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 899
Words 181
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 4, 3, 2, 2, 3, 3, 2, 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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