Gitanjali (Song Offerings)

by Rabindranath Tagore A collection of prose translations made by the author from t with an introduction by W. B. Yeatse original Bengali

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913"because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which,with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in hisown English words, a part of the literature of the West"

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Contents

Introduction ......................................................................................................... viii Gitanjali: 1 ............................................................................................................ 15Gitanjali: 2 ............................................................................................................ 16Gitanjali: 3 ............................................................................................................ 17 Gitanjali: 4 ............................................................................................................ 18Gitanjali: 5 ............................................................................................................ 19Gitanjali: 6 ............................................................................................................ 20Gitanjali: 7 ............................................................................................................ 22Gitanjali: 8 ............................................................................................................ 24Gitanjali: 9 ............................................................................................................ 25Gitanjali: 10 .......................................................................................................... 26Gitanjali: 11 .......................................................................................................... 27 Gitanjali: 12 .......................................................................................................... 28Gitanjali: 13 .......................................................................................................... 29Gitanjali: 14 .......................................................................................................... 30Gitanjali: 15 .......................................................................................................... 31Gitanjali: 16 .......................................................................................................... 32Gitanjali: 17 .......................................................................................................... 33Gitanjali: 18 .......................................................................................................... 34Gitanjali: 19 .......................................................................................................... 35Gitanjali: 20 .......................................................................................................... 36Gitanjali: 21 .......................................................................................................... 37 Gitanjali: 22 .......................................................................................................... 38