The Gardener XXVI: What Comes From Your Willing Hands

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



"What comes from your willing
hands I take. I beg for nothing
more."
    "Yes, yes, I know you, modest
mendicant, you ask for all that one
has."
    "If there be a stray flower for me
I will wear it in my heart."
    "But if there be thorns?"
    "I will endure them."
    "Yes, yes, I know you, modest
mendicant, you ask for all that one
has."
    "If but once you should raise your
loving eyes to my face it would make
my life sweet beyond death."
    "But if there be only cruel
glances?"
    "I will keep them piercing my
heart."
    "Yes, yes, I know you, modest
mendicant, you ask for all that one
has."

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme aabCDEfghiCDEbjklmngCDE
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 597
Words 125
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 23

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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