"Why did the flower fade?
I clutched it to my heart in excess of feeling and crushed it.
Why did the lamp go out?
I shielded it to my heart in my cloak and it got no air."
2007-03-28 06:15:34 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Is it from Gitanjali? or maybe The Gardener? I've got a bunch of his stuff... I'll keep looking.
It's from The Gardener. I only have an excerpt in Tagore: An Anthology, edited by Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson. You can find the full text (not sure of the translation quality) at the following links:
http://www.online-literature.com/tagore-rabindranath/2955/
or http://www.terebess.hu/english/tagore3.html
The passage you asked about is in verse 52... but you've got the two questions switched: "Why did the lamp go out?" comes first.
2007-03-28 06:27:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's from "The Gardener," at the following website:
http://www.terebess.hu/english/tagore3.html
At that website, scroll down to Verse 52.
2007-03-28 13:34:08 · answer #2 · answered by yahoohoo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ravindranath tagore
2007-03-31 04:47:41 · answer #3 · answered by chakrapani p 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Better go to some library....
2007-03-28 13:19:27 · answer #4 · answered by Wanderer 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋