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Rabindranath Tagore

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A collection of 40 poems translated from Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore, and first published in 1913. Contains 8 colour illustrations. The poems include: The Unheeded Pageant; On The Seashore; The Flower-School; The Wicked Postman; The Beginning; The Little Big Man, and more.

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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

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Table of Contents

 

The Home

The Source

Baby's Way

The Unheeded Pageant

Sleep-Stealer

The Beginning

Baby's World

When And Why

Defamation

The Judge

Playthings

The Astronomer

Clouds And Waves

The Champa Flower

Fairyland

The Land Of The Exile

The Rainy Day

Paper Boats

The Sailor

The Further Bank

The Flower-School

The Merchant

Sympathy

Vocation

Superior

The Little Big Man

Twelve O'clock

Authorship

The Wicked Postman

The Hero

The End

The Recall

The First Jasmines

The Banyan Tree

Benediction

The Gift

My Song

The Child-Angel

The Last Bargain

 

THE CRESCENT MOON

BY

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

1913

The Home

The Home--from a drawing by Nandalall Bose

I paced alone on the road across the field while the sunset was hiding its last gold like a miser.

The daylight sank deeper and deeper into the darkness, and the widowed land, whose harvest had been reaped, lay silent.

Suddenly a boy's shrill voice rose into the sky. He traversed the dark unseen, leaving the track of his song across the hush of the evening.

His village home lay there at the end of the waste land, beyond the sugar-cane field, hidden among the shadows of the banana and the slender areca palm, the cocoa-nut and the dark green jack-fruit trees.

I stopped for a moment in my lonely way under the starlight, and saw spread before me the darkened earth surrounding with her arms countless homes furnished with cradles and beds, mothers' hearts and evening lamps, and young lives glad with a gladness that knows nothing of its value for the world.

On The Seashore

On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.

The infinite sky is motionless overhead and the restless water is boisterous. On the seashore of endless worlds the children meet with shouts and dances.

They build their houses with sand, and they play with empty shells. With withered leaves they weave their boats and smilingly float them on the vast deep. Children have their play on the seashore of worlds.

They know not how to swim, they know not how to cast nets. Pearl-fishers dive for pearls, merchants sail in their ships, while children gather pebbles and scatter them again. They seek not for hidden treasures, they know not how to cast nets.

The sea surges up with laughter, and pale gleams the smile of the sea-beach. Death-dealing waves sing meaningless ballads to the children, even like a mother while rocking her baby's cradle. The sea plays with children, and pale gleams the smile of the sea-beach.

On the seashore of endless worlds children meet. Tempest roams in the pathless sky, ships are wrecked in the trackless water, death is abroad and children play. On the seashore of endless worlds is the great meeting of children.