Unending Love

A Poem By Rabindranath Tagore

The Author.
Rabindranath Tagore was an Indian poet and philosopher and the first Asian to have won the Novel Prize for Literature (he won it in 1913). He is considered a creative genius. He wrote in the various genres, and used themes that transcended both time and place. He also wrote the national Anthem of Bangladesh. Writing very early, he published his first book when he was 17 years old. After a brief stay in England where he studied law, he came back to India and became most important and popular writer of the colonial era.

He wrote in the various genres primarily in Bengali but translated many of his works into English himself. Readers will find his writing highly imaginative, deeply religious, and imbued with love of nature and his homeland. He was knighted by British King George V in 1915.

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Translate the following phrase into Filipino, paying particular attention to the word.

My spell-bound heart

Ang puso kong nabibighani

Old chronicles of love

Lumang sanaysay ng pagibig

In shapes that renew and renew forever

Sa hugis na binago at binabago magpakailanman

Clad in the light of a polestar

Armas sa liwanag ng isang mataas bituin

Necklace of songs

Kuwintas ng kanta

Piercing the darkness of time

Butasan ang kadiliman ng oras

Ancient tale of being apart

Lumang kuwento ng pag hihiwalay

the love of all man s day

Ang araw ng pag-ibig ng mga tao

Unending Love
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, In life after life, in age after age forever. My spell-bound heart made and re-made the necklace of songs That you take as a gift, wear around your neck in your many forms In life after life, in age after age forever. Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, its age-old pain, Its ancient tale of being apart or together, As I stare on and into the past, in the end you emerge Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time: You become an image of what is remembered forever.

You and I have here on the stream that brings from the fount At the heart of time love of one for another. We have played alongside millions of lovers, shared in the same Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewellOld love, but in shapes that renew and renew forever. Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you, The love of all man s days both past and forever: Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life, The memories of all loves merging with this one love of oursAnd the songs of every poet past and forever.