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POETRY COLLECTION The Gardener

The Gardener (selections)

Rabindranath Tagore · 19 poems · 40 pages · free to read

Nineteen of the lyrics of love and life that Tagore translated from his own Bengali in 1913.

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Contents

  1. The Gardener 3: In the morning I cast my net into the sea (open in book)
  2. The Gardener 5: I am restless (open in book)
  3. The Gardener 6: The tame bird was in a cage (open in book)
  4. The Gardener 14: I was walking by the road (open in book)
  5. The Gardener 30: You are the evening cloud (open in book)
  6. The Gardener 31: My heart, the bird of the wilderness (open in book)
  7. The Gardener 39: I try to weave a wreath all the morning (open in book)
  8. The Gardener 57: I plucked your flower, O world! (open in book)
  9. The Gardener 60: Amidst the rush and roar of life (open in book)
  10. The Gardener 61: Peace, my heart (open in book)
  11. The Gardener 64: I spent my day on the scorching hot dust of the road (open in book)
  12. The Gardener 67: Though the evening comes with slow steps (open in book)
  13. The Gardener 68: None lives for ever (open in book)
  14. The Gardener 69: I hunt for the golden stag (open in book)
  15. The Gardener 70: I remember a day in my childhood (open in book)
  16. The Gardener 73: Infinite wealth is not yours (open in book)
  17. The Gardener 74: In the world's audience hall (open in book)
  18. The Gardener 84: Over the green and yellow rice-fields (open in book)
  19. The Gardener 85: Who are you, reader (open in book)

Sources

The poems in this collection are in the public domain. This is a reading edition, not a Pagine Original.

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