Lover's Gift

by Rabindranath Tagore

Lover's Gift consists of 60 poems was first published in 1918 alongwith Crossing. Mostly written in the first person, it lights up the different aspects of love

Genres: Poetry

50 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1917

About the author

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."

Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla.

The complete works of Rabindranath Tagore (রবীন্দ্র রচনাবলী) in the original Bengali are now available at these third-party websites:
http://www.tagoreweb.in/
http://www.rabindra-rachanabali.nltr....

Reviews

[Ola Al-Najres · Rating 4 out of 5]

رأيي في الشعر المترجم كان ولا زال ثابت ، أنّه يُقرأ بالقلب ، و بالقلب فقط ...
و ما شعر طاغور إلى لمسات موزونة على أوتار القلوب .

القراءة الأولى من قراءات عديدة لاحقة 💚


سوف أطمع بالمزيد
و لو امتلكت السماء بكلّ نجومها
و العالم بثروته التي لا تنضب
و لكنني سأكون قانعاً
بالزاوية الأصغر على هذه الأرض
لو كانت حبيبتي وحدها معي

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قدته إلى الضفة المُعشبة
و نشفت جسده بطرف عباءتي الحريرية الناعمة
ثمّ جففت قدميه
بشعري المرسل و أنا جاثية على الأرض
حين رفعت رأسي و نظرت في عينيه
خلت أنني أحسست
بقبلة العالم الأولى للمرأة الأولى
مقدسةٌ أنا
مقدسٌ هو الله الذي خلقني امرأة

[Thùy Tiên · Rating 4 out of 5]

Những tác giả Ấn độ luôn mang một màu sắc huyền bí như chính đất nước này vậy. Tác giả viết quyển này lúc ông đang ở Hy mã Lạp Sơn, quyển sách đúng là mang màu tâm linh, là hội tụ vẻ đẹp tự nhiên của xứ này và tính huyền bí, hướng về trời đất của chính vùng đất này.

[Greg · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the short collection of poems, “Lover’s Gift”. Again, Tagore, returns to familiar themes from his other poetry. My favorite of the collection is:

“LVIII”

Things throng and laugh loud in the sky; the sands and dust dance and whirl like children. Man’s mind is aroused by their shouts; his thoughts long to be the playmates of things.
Our dreams, drifting in the stream of the vague, stretch their arms to clutch the earth,--their efforts stiffen into bricks and stones, and thus the city of man is built.
Voices come swarming from the past,--seeking answers from the living moments. Beats of their wings fill the air with tremulous shadows, and sleepless thoughts in our minds leave their nests to take flight across the desert of dimness, in the passionate thirst for forms. They are lampless pilgrims, seeking the shore of light, to find themselves in things. They will be lured into poets’ rhymes, they will be housed in the towers of the town not yet planned, they have their call to arms from the battlefields of the future, they are bidden to join hands in the strifes of peace yet to come.

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[Peculiarblend · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wondered how many still have the access of a classics like this one and it's my pleasure to let you know that I have 1918 print of this book.

It was such a wonderful experience to read this book under the full moonlit sky with a dash of nostalgia. I smiled, cried, laughed and wondered how can someone write so beautifully.

Come fall in love with life all over again. A must for all age.