Fruit Gathering
Rabindranath Tagore
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Description
Rabindranath Tagore, writing in his own English from Bengali, offers short poems that treat a life like fruit ripening on a branch. Early verses speak of youth as a flower that drops a petal or two without loss, while later ones speak of age as fruit that holds nothing back. The garden, the river, and the evening wind run through the whole set.
Each poem is brief, yet it carries a full turn of feeling, from longing and loss to quiet surrender and joy. Tagore keeps the images plain and close to hand, so the sense lands at once rather than through hard thought. Fruit-Gathering reads as a small book of songs for the late season of a life.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Rabindranath Tagore |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 72 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |