The Gardener XXXIV: Do Not Go, My Love

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



Do not go, my love, without asking
my leave.
    I have watched all night, and now
my eyes are heavy with sleep.
    I fear lest I lose you when I'm
sleeping.
    Do not go, my love, without asking
my leave.
    I start up and stretch my hands to
touch you. I ask myself, "Is it a
dream?"
    Could I but entangle your feet with
my heart and hold them fast to my
breast!
    Do not go, my love, without asking
my leave.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 28, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABcdeaABfghijkAB
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 413
Words 85
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16

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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