Tagore, a collection of birds in English poetry

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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 sign.

Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away.

Yellow leaves in autumn

No songs

With a sigh, falling there.

2

Troupe of little vagrants of the world, please leave your footprints in my words.

A troupe of little vagrants in the world.

Leave your footprints in my words.

three

The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover.

It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.

The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover.

It's like a song

It's like an eternal kiss.

four

It is the tears of the earth that keep her smile in bloom.

It is the tears of the earth that keep these flowers in bloom.

five

The boundless desert is burning for the love of a blade of grass who shakes her head and laughs and flies away. ?

The boundless desert is burning for the love of a blade of grass who shakes her head and laughs and flies away.

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six

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you will also miss the stars.

If you shed tears because you missed the sun

You also missed the stars.

seven

The sands in your way beg for your song and your movement, dancing water. Are you willing to bear the burden of lameness? The sands in your way beg for your song and your movement.

Dancing water.

Are you willing to bear the burden of lameness?

eight

Her eager face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.

Her eager face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.

nine

Once, we dreamed that everyone was a stranger.

When we wake up, we know that we love each other.

Once we dreamed that we were strangers.

We woke up and found that we were dear to each other.

10

Sorrow is hushed into peace in my heart, like the evening arrival in the silent forest.

Sorrow is hushed into peace in my heart, like the evening arrival in the silent forest.