Stray Birds
Rabindranath Tagore
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Description
Rabindranath Tagore's Stray Birds, printed at New York by the Macmillan Company in 1916, is a book of short poems that Tagore himself translated from Bengali into English. A color frontispiece by Willy Pogany faces the title page, and the book is dedicated to T. Hara of Yokohama.
The poems are brief, numbered flights of thought. The first sees stray birds of summer come to a window to sing and fly away, while autumn leaves fall with a sigh. Others speak of tears keeping the earth's smiles in bloom, of missing the stars by weeping for the sun, and of a blade of grass laughing at the desert. Each piece stands alone like a proverb.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Rabindranath Tagore |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |