Rabindranath Tagore (Songs of Awakening)

Contents Preface vii 1 Your White New Conchshell Blows All Through the Sky 1 2 In the Eastern Part of the Sky 2 3 Awake, My Mind, in the World of Goodness 3 4 When Have You Come at Dawn and Touched with a Smile 4 5 Even Now Your Numbness Does Not Slip Away, Eyes Do Not Open Up 5 6 Who Awakes Today in the Fearlessly Asleep World? 7 7 The Night Dawned, the Path Ended 8 8 O the Dream at Night Removed, O Just Removed, the Strings Cut Off 9 9 My Void of Many Days Would Have to be Filled In 10 10 O the Ever New, Today in This First Song 11 11 The Life of Life is Awaking in Your Very Life 13 12 Awake in Eyes Distinct on the Other Shore of Night 14 13 If Thou Dost Shatter the Dream at the Dawn of Night 16 14 Play On, O Poet, Your Pleasant Music 17 15 O Enchanter of Mind, at the End of Dense Night 18 16 Traveller, Why With Idle Limbs Even Now! 19 17 Who Called O Lord, on the Night of Sorrow! 20 18 Call on Me Tonight at Dead Hours 21 19 Awake in Joy, O Awake with Him 22 20 O Awake in Pure Joy 23 21 All Make Merriments 24 22 Awake Me with the Touch of Thy Drink Thyself 25 23 Friend of My Heart, Give New Life in Today's Auspicious Morning 26 24 Listen to His Pleasing Message on the Auspicious Moment in a Calm Heart 27 25 Day and Night Look at His Countenance 28 26 Awake O Awake -the Morning Passes in Vain! 29 27 Who Has Sat Today on the Seat of the Heart, Lord, the God of the Earth! 30 28 Spreading a Seat on the Two Hearts, Be Seated, O Lord 31 29 The Calm Evening Came, the Tired Sun Went Down the Setting Horizon 32 30 From Fear to Thy Fearlessness, O Deliver Me to Birth Anew! 33 31 In Thy Name Do I Today Open My Eyes in the Auspicious Morning 34 32 Lord, Saluting You, Shall I Go On with Worldly Work 35 33 In Deep Sorrow Did I Awake, the Night Dense and Gloomy 36 34 Why Sleep is Not There in Your Eyes Alone 37 35 When Tears Trickled Down with the Rains of Sorrow 38 36 The Bee Came Inside the Room Humming 39 37 Day and Night Sans Happiness in Yoke, You are Wandering With a Poor Life 41 38 Who Knew That You Would Call on Me! I was Immersed in Slumber 42 39 Arise and Let Us Go, the Good Day Arrived, the Fragrance of Joy Overflowed 44 40 Lord, If You Awaken Me Today 45 41 More Strike I Would Bear, I, Too, Would Bear 46 42 Give in the Heart Thy Pure Juice of the Touch, Thy Cool Calm Virtuous Hands 47 43 O Wherefrom Rings the Pain of Love! 48 44 The Dark Night Dawned, in Joy Was the World Filled 49 45 In the Sea of Nactar Do I Immerse, the World Do I Forget 51 46 Let Me Receive Thy Kindness in My Heart 52 47 Awake, O Rude, Awake! 54 48 This Course of Test Came to An End 55 49 Awake, Awake O Awake Songs, Make the Sky of the Mind Wavy 56 50 Eyes Floated in Water 57 51 Victory, O Poet, to Thy Diverse Joy! 58 52 Where the God of the Silent Heart Awakes Alone 59 53 The Lord Awakes in the Moonlit Night 60 54 When the World is Rapt in Slumber and the Sky is Dark 61 55 That She Came and Sat Beside Me, Yet I did Not Awake 62 56 When I Came out Singing Your Song 63 57 In Thunder Your Flute Plays on. Is That a Simple Song? 65 58 My Massage Touches My Heart 66 59 O We Would Have to Awake! 67 60 Amidst the Awakening Noise of the Universe 68 61 To Break the Doors in the Retreat of the Demons of Dry Heat 69 62 What Massage of the Very Spring Did the Yonder Full Moon Bring Forth! 70 63 In Drizzles Drops the Fountain of Colours 71 64 With Whose Letter Did the Full Moon Come! 72 65 O My Moonlight, Today in the Evening of the Early Spring 73 66 The House of Play Have I Started Building Amidst the Mind 74 67 The Heart of Midnight 75 68 Moon, Who Will Give You the Swing! 76 69 Slowly, Slowly, Blow Slowly, O Restless Wind! 77 70 How Would He Remain Secret by Hiding the Seized Heart! 78 71 That Thou Hast Come to My Residence, the Sound is Surging all Thro' the World 79 72 In the Full Moon Tonight Everyone Has Gone to the Forest 80 73 This Flower of the First Moment of My Morning 81 74 Become One in Unison, Place the Head at the Feet of One 82 75 Adorning the Sail With Your Open Wind by Cutting Off the Rope 83 76 O My Mind, When You Awoke Not 84 77 In the Heart You were Awake 85 78 Wherefrom I As If Listen 86 79 With What Affection the Spring Goes on Writing Its Song on the Dust! 87 80 The Last Star of Night, in Secret Half-Slumber 88 81 My Lamp is Put Out in the Wind at Midnight 89 82 Would Your Work Be Finished By Stringing Wires 90 83 Let Victory, Victory Be to New Sunrise 91 84 With the Very Beginning of the Early Spring, All Dry Leaves that Dropped Down 92 85 Come O Come, the Water for Quenching Thirst 94 86 From His Eternal World of Goodness 96 87 Plays On, O Plays On, the Drum Plays On Amid the Heart, Amid the Heart 98 88 I Know Not When With the Touch of Rains 99 89 Giving, Taking and Returning Between You and ME 100 90 My Heart, Perhaps Yonder Your Early Summer Storm Arrives 101 91 Yonder in the Blue Horizon the Fire of Flowers Caught 102 92 Today the Inner Words of the Sky in Drizzles Ring 103 93 What a Poignant Massage Came Along the Shade of Dense Cloud 105 94 Slowly is Plunging the Dense Night in My Life 106 95 Sing Shall I with Thy Tune, Give Me that Veena 107 96 Sorrow There is, Death is There, the Pangs of Separation Ache 109 97 Take, Take the Silent Veena Up 110 98 The Wind Touches the Sail of Songs 112 99 The Permanent Words That You Have Strung in the Global Tune 113 100 Look At Me Not, Knowing Me Old 114