Selected Poems

Description

This volume is part of 'The Oxford Tagore Translations' series, a prestigious project undertaken by Oxford University Press in collaboration with Visva-Bharati to publish English translations of a wide range of Tagore's writings including his poetry, non-fiction prose, and fiction.
The 150 poems in this volume, including many new translations, cover the entire span of Tagore's life and illustrate his work in many significant genres and forms. Within the covers of a single volume, they offer a more representative range than ever before in English of Tagore's output in the field of poetry, which was a primary marker of his identity. The volume also includes a detailed introduction and extensive notes.

About the Authors

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Nobel Laureate, is the most eminent modern Indian writer to have appeared on the world literary scene.

Sukanta Chaudhuri is Professor of English at Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

Sankha Ghosh was formerly Professor of Bengali at Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

Table of contents

General Editor's Preface
A Note on the Contributors
Notes on Dates, Text, and Illustrations
Introduction by Sankha Ghosh
The Suicide of the Star

The Spring Wakes from its Dream

Rahu's Love

The Heart's Longings

Song-Writing

Memory

Beyond the Sunset

Brief Infinity

Eternal Day

Ocean Waves

To Ahalya

A Farewell

The Golden Boat

I Won't Let You Go

Swaying

To the Ocean

The Heart's Yamuna

Voyage without End

On a Moonlit Light

Now Turn Me Back

The Various-Pictured

A Plea

Urvashi

The Mirage

The Lord of Life

Beside the Sea

Offering

The Unphilosophical

The Unknown Universe

Affliction

Devoured by the God

Words and Rhythm

After the Burning of Madana

The End of the Year

The Meeting of Karna and Kunti

The Drunkard

How Old Is the Poet?

Compensation

Block Blossom

The Poet

Life

Your Gesture

The Nest and the Sky

Athirst

Change of Era

Where the Mind is without Fear

The Poet's Science

Death-Tryst

Worship

The Crazy Spring

The Afar

Dear Mother

The Children by the Shore

The Incense Longs

Last Ferry

The Holy Hour

Renunciation

Unnecessary

The Coming

The Miser

Song: This Stormy Night

Song: The Suit

Song: When Life has Withered

Song: Your Flute Plays in the Thunder

Pilgrimage to India

The Dishonoured

Song: This is Why your Joy

My

Song has Cast off

The Day I Go

Song: This is No Sweet Game

Song: The Night my Doors were Shattered

Song: The Herds of Light

Song: My Lamp Blown Out

Supreme Farewell

Song: The Cloud says, 'I am Going'

Song: From the Springs of Darkness

The Evening Traveller

The Picture

The Restless One

Repayment

You and I

The Flying Geese

The Storm-Crossing

Release

Being Lost

Dusk and Dawn

One Day

Fulfilment

Footsteps

Gratitude

The Skeleton

Union

The Exchange

Hymn to the Tree

Woman of the Sea

Separation

Woman Empowered

The Incomplete

The Question

The Black Horse

Death-Vanquisher

Contemplation

Flute-Music

Beauty

Death

The Indifferent

The Victor

The Ancient Old man

The End

Earth

I

Last Night

On the Open path

Identity

Africa

Depletion

When the Ravelled Thread of Dreams

This is Freedom

I Saw in the Twilight

The Day my Consciousness was Freed

On Every Side, She-Snakes

Why?

Sound

A Decayed House, a Deserted Mansion

The Drummers

The Peacock's Gaze

This Side and That

Remnant

Song: Ahead, the Sea of Peace

The Romantic

Gifts

Comings and Goings

Aquatic

The First Force

Sudden Death

Impossible

I Imagine

Letter from Kalimpong

In this Universe

In the Grey Twilight Wedding-Hour

When I do not See You

Concord

The Pall of the Self

In the Vast Field of Creation

They Work

Sweet is this Heaven

Song: The Supreme Man Now Comes

On the Banks of the Rupnarayan

The First Day's Sun

Sorrow's Dark Night

The Path of Your Creation

Notes