RABINDRANATH+TAGORE~ANNA+AKHMATOVA

Tagore, Akhmatova

Links http://www.calcuttaweb.com/tagore/paintings.shtml - Pieces of Tagore's art and paintings

http://www.odessit.com/namegal/english/ahmatova.htm

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1

http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/tagore/gitnjali.htm - Gitanjali- poem he won noble prize with

Representative Poems
Anna Akhmatova >
 * The Sentence *
 * The Grey-Eyed King (1910)
 * The Treasure http://www.poetryloverspage.com/yevgeny/akhmatova/treasure.html

The Sentence
And the stone word fell On my still-living breast. Never mind, I was ready. I will manage somehow.

Today I have so much to do: I must kill memory once and for all, I must turn my soul to stone, I must learn to live again—

Unless. . . Summer's ardent rustling Is like a festival outside my window. For a long time I've foreseen this Brilliant day, deserted house.

Rabindranath Tagore
 * A Moments Indulgence
 * The Golden Boat (1894)
 * Song Offerings (1912)

A Moments Indulgence
I ask for a moment's indulgence to sit by thy side. The works that I have in hand I will finish afterwards.

Away from the sight of thy face my heart knows no rest nor respite, and my work becomes an endless toil in a shoreless sea of toil.

Today the summer has come at my window with its sighs and murmurs; and the bees are plying their minstrelsy at the court of the flowering grove.

Now it is time to sit quite, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.