Rabindra Jayanti

Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941)

was a Bengali poet, novelist, musician, painter and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music. He was also a prominent freedom fighter and social reformer. As author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he was the first non-European who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.

Durga Puja Dallas 2011

Rabindranath Tagore 150th birth anniversary

I thought that my voyage had come to its end
At the last limit of my power,
That the path before me was closed,
That provisions were exhausted
And the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity.

But I find that thy will knows no end in me.
And when old words die out on the tongue,
New melodies break forth from the heart;
And where the old tracks are lost,
New country is revealed with its wonders.

My song has put off her adornments.
She has no pride of dress and decoration.
Ornaments would mar our union;
they would come between thee and me;
their jingling would drown thy whispers.


My poet's vanity dies in shame before thy sight.
O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet.
Only let me make my life simple and straight,
like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.

Durga Puja Dallas 2011