item: #1 of 6 id: 6519 author: Kabir title: Songs of Kabir date: None words: 16956 flesch: 83 summary: Creation, he says again and again, is full of music: it _is_ music. _pânî vic mîn piyâsî_ I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty: You do not see that the Real is in your home, and you wander from forest to forest listlessly! keywords: ascetic; beautiful; beauty; beloved; benares; bird; bliss; body; brahma; brother; city; common; consciousness; constant; creation; dance; day; dear; death; deep; delight; detachment; disciple; divine; ears; earth; eternal; expression; eyes; fakir; fear; feet; fire; flowers; footnote; form; formless; friend; god; good; great; guru; hai; hand; head; heart; hidden; hindu; hold; holy; home; house; human; husband; iii; infinite; joy; kabîr; knowledge; land; left; life; light; living; lord; lotus; love; lxxvi; man; master; melody; men; mere; millions; mind; mohammedan; moon; music; mystical; nature; near; nectar; need; nos; ocean; open; pain; personal; philosophy; place; play; pleasure; poems; poet; pure; rain; reality; religion; religious; renunciation; rest; rhythm; root; ruysbroeck; râmânanda; sadhu; secret; seed; seeker; self; sense; servant; shore; simple; sky; sleep; songs; soul; source; spirit; spiritual; sport; streams; sun; supreme; swan; swing; symbols; sâdho; sûfî; temple; thee; things; thirst; thou; thought; time; tree; true; truth; unconditioned; union; universe; unstruck; vessel; vision; water; waves; wide; wise; words; work; world; worship cache: 6519.txt plain text: 6519.txt item: #2 of 6 id: 6520 author: None title: The Crescent Moon date: None words: 8875 flesch: 91 summary: Ah, these jasmines Ah, who was it coloured that little frock Bless this little heart Child, how happy you are sitting in the dust Come and hire me Day by day I float my paper boats I am small because I am a little child If baby only wanted to, he could fly If I were only a little puppy If people came to know where my king's palace is I long to go over there Imagine, mother I only said, When in the evening I paced alone It is time for me to go, mother I want to give you something, my child I wish I could take a quiet corner Mother, I do want to leave off my lessons Mother, let us imagine we are travelling Mother, the folk who live up in the clouds Mother, the light has grown grey Mother, your baby is silly On the seashore of endless worlds When mother came back she found baby travelling the room over on all fours. keywords: arms; away; baby; bank; big; boats; boy; child; children; clouds; coloured; corner; cross; dark; day; dear; desert; drawing; dâdâ; earth; evening; eyes; face; fairy; father; flower; gold; hands; heart; home; illustration; jasmines; king; kiss; land; life; little; love; moon; morning; mother; night; paper; play; river; road; seashore; shadow; sky; sleep; smile; song; stars; sweet; time; tiny; tree; village; water; waves; white; wind; window; world cache: 6520.txt plain text: 6520.txt item: #3 of 6 id: 6524 author: Tagore, Rabindranath title: Stray Birds date: None words: 5963 flesch: 96 summary: 72 In my solitude of heart I feel the sigh of this widowed evening veiled with mist and rain. 67 God grows weary of great kingdoms, but never of little flowers. keywords: air; beauty; bird; child; dark; day; death; dust; earth; evening; flowers; friend; god; grass; great; heart; lamp; leaves; life; little; love; man; morning; mother; music; night; power; sea; silence; silent; sky; songs; soul; stars; sun; thee; things; thou; thoughts; thy; truth; voice; water; waves; woman; words; world cache: 6524.txt plain text: 6524.txt item: #4 of 6 id: 6686 author: Tagore, Rabindranath title: The Gardener date: None words: 14120 flesch: 96 summary: We are face to face and heart to heart, my bride and I. 83 If you do not care for merry meetings, if you must have peace, weary heart, we shall put our lamps out and silence our harps. keywords: away; beloved; bird; breast; bride; brother; cage; chain; clouds; come; dark; day; days; death; door; dreams; dust; end; evening; eyes; face; fear; feet; flowers; forest; free; fresh; friend; garden; god; hair; hands; heart; home; house; lamp; leave; left; life; lips; long; look; lost; love; mind; moment; moon; morning; mother; near; night; open; pain; path; pitcher; queen; river; road; secret; servant; shadow; shame; silent; simple; sky; smile; songs; spring; stars; steps; sun; sweet; tears; temple; time; touch; traveller; trees; true; veil; village; water; wind; wings; words; work; world; young cache: 6686.txt plain text: 6686.txt item: #5 of 6 id: 7164 author: Tagore, Rabindranath title: Gitanjali date: None words: 14621 flesch: 88 summary: I am uneasy at heart when I have to leave my accustomed shelter; I forget that there abides the old in the new, and that there also thou abidest. These verses will not lie in little well-printed books upon ladies' tables, who turn the pages with indolent hands that they may sigh over a life without meaning, which is yet all they can know of life, or be carried by students at the university to be laid aside when the work of life begins, but, as the generations pass, travellers will hum them on the highway and men rowing upon the rivers. keywords: air; away; beggar; break; children; clouds; corner; country; cry; dark; darkness; day; days; death; deep; delight; door; dreams; dust; earth; end; endless; evening; eyes; face; fear; feet; flowers; friend; gloom; god; golden; great; hall; hands; heart; hidden; home; hours; house; journey; joy; king; lamp; leave; left; life; light; like; literature; little; long; lord; lost; love; master; mind; moment; morning; music; open; pain; path; play; pleasure; poet; power; pride; rabindranath; read; river; sea; seat; shadow; shame; silence; silent; sky; sleep; smile; songs; sorrow; star; strength; sudden; sweet; tagore; tears; thee; thine; things; thou; thought; thy; time; touch; vain; voice; water; waves; wind; words; work; world; worship cache: 7164.txt plain text: 7164.txt item: #6 of 6 id: 7971 author: Tagore, Rabindranath title: The Fugitive date: None words: 20032 flesch: 87 summary: Your words I hear, but cannot take to heart. Then I, who in my wisdom had soared far above all weakness of heart and to whom emotions were illusory, went myself to the apartment where, with their arms, women fenced the child like a flower surrounded by the menacing branches of a tree. keywords: air; ama; answer; arms; bank; beauty; bed; best; boat; body; boy; break; breast; child; clouds; come; coming; cry; dark; darkness; daughter; dawn; day; days; dead; death; delight; devayani; dhritarashtra; door; duryodhana; dust; earth; evening; eyes; face; far; father; feet; fire; flowers; forest; friend; fruit; gandhari; girl; god; gods; grass; great; hands; head; heart; heaven; home; hours; house; husband; jivaji; joy; kacha; karna; king; kunti; land; leave; left; life; like; little; long; lost; love; master; mind; moment; moon; morning; mother; music; near; new; night; open; pain; pandavas; paradise; path; place; power; prince; queen; question; rain; rama; ritvik; river; road; room; round; sea; secret; seek; shadows; shame; silence; silent; sky; small; smile; somaka; son; songs; sorrow; soul; spring; stars; storm; strange; sudden; summer; sun; tears; things; thought; time; touch; trees; true; vain; village; vinayaka; voice; water; waves; way; whisper; wind; window; woman; words; work; world; youth cache: 7971.txt plain text: 7971.txt