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Stray Birds

Rabindranath Tagore

  • Poetry
  • Book language: English
  • 3 pages

Stray Birds is a collection of short prose poems and aphorisms by Rabindranath Tagore, translated by the author from Bengali. The pieces reflect on nature, love, longing, and the divine, offering brief moments of quiet observation and insight. It is worth listening to for its contemplative, lyrical voice and its gentle attention to the world.

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Opening of the book

Stray Birds
By Rabindranath Tagore
[translated from Bengali to English by the
author]
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916
[Frontispiece in color by Willy Pogány]
To
T. HARA
of
Yokohama
[Birds, falling leaves outside
window]
1
STRAY birds of summer come to my
window to sing and fly away.
And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no
songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.
2
O TROUPE of little vagrants of the world, leave
your footprints in my words.
3
THE world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover.
It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the
eternal.

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Contents

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