The Essential Works of Tagore. Rabindranath Tagore

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      The sun has his simple robe of light. The clouds are decked with gorgeousness.

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      The hills are like shouts of children who raise their arms, trying to catch stars.

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      The road is lonely in its crowd for it is not loved.

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      The power that boasts of its mischiefs is laughed at by the yellow leaves that fall, and clouds that pass by.

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      The earth hums to me to-day in the sun, like a woman at her spinning, some ballad of the ancient time in a forgotten tongue.

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      The grass-blade is worthy of the great world where it grows.

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      Dream is a wife who must talk.

       Sleep is a husband who silently suffers.

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      The night kisses the fading day whispering to his ear, "I am death, your mother. I am to give you fresh birth."

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      I fell thy beauty, dark night, like that of the loved woman when she has put out the lamp.

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      I carry in my world that flourishes the worlds that have failed.

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      Dear friend, I feel the silence of your great thoughts of many a deepening eventide on this beach when I listen to these waves.

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      The bird thinks it is an act of kindness to give the fish a lift in the air.

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      "In the moon thou sendest thy love letters to me," said the night to the sun. "I leave my answers in tears upon the grass."

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      The Great is a born child ; when he dies he gives his great childhood to the world.

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      Not hammer strokes, but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.

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      Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave.

       The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.

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      To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

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      Asks the Possible to the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling place?"

       "In the dreams of the impotent," comes the answer.

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      If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.

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      I hear some rustle of things behind my sadness of heart,—I cannot see them

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      Leisure in its activity is work.

       The stillness of the sea stirs in waves.

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      The leaf becomes flower when it doves.

       The flower becomes fruit when it worships.

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      The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

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      This rainy evening the wind is restless.

       I look at the swaying branches and ponder over the greatness of all things

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      Storm of midnight, like a giant child awakened in the untimely dark, has begun to play and shout.

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      Thou raisest thy waves vainly to follow thy lover, O sea, thou lonely bride of the storm.

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      "I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work.

       "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word.

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      Time is the wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

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      Truth in her dress finds facts too tight.

       In fiction she moves with ease.

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      When I travelled to here and to there, I was tired of thee, O Road, but now when thou leadest me to everywhere I am wedded to thee in love.

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      Let me think that there is one among those stars that guides my life through the dark unknown.

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      Woman, with the grace of your fingers you touched my things and order came out like music.

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      One sad voice has its nest among the ruins of the years. It sings to me in the night,—"I loved you."

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      The flaming fire warns me off by its own glow. Save me from the dying embers, hidden under ashes.

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      I have my stars in the sky, But oh for my little lamp unlit in my house.

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      The dust of the dead words clings to thee.

       Wash thy soul with silence.

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      Gaps are left in life through which comes the sad music of death.

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      The world has opened its heart of light in the morning.

       Come out, my heart, with thy love to meet it.

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      My thoughts shimmer with these shimmering leaves and my heart sings with the СКАЧАТЬ