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A series of lyrical poems and short prose pieces offering intimate devotional reflections on the speaker's relationship with the divine. Everyday details—gardens, rivers, songs, and domestic scenes—are fused with metaphors of love, separation, mortality, and spiritual longing. Tone shifts between joyful praise, humble petition, and serene surrender, and musical, image-rich language repeatedly locates the sacred within ordinary life, suggesting a continuous conversation between human feeling and transcendence.

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Title: Gitanjali

Author: Rabindranath Tagore

Author of introduction, etc.: W. B. Yeats

Release date: December 1, 2004 [eBook #7164]
Most recently updated: December 10, 2023

Language: English

Credits: John B. Hare, Chetan Jain, Viswas G and Anand Rao

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Gitanjali

Song Offerings

by Rabindranath Tagore

A collection of prose translations made by the author from the original Bengali

With an introduction by
W. B. YEATS