Stray Bird 221-240 Rabindranath Tagore

221 The storm is like the cry of some god in pain whose love the earth refuses.

222 The world does not leak because death is not a crack.

223 Life has become richer by the love that has been lost.

224 My friend, your great heart shone with the sunrise of the East like the snowy summit of a lonely hill in the dawn.

225 The fountain of death makes the still water of life play.

226 Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.

227 The movement of life has its rest in its own music.

228 Kicks only raise dust and not crops from the earth.

229 Our names are the light that glows on the sea waves at night and then dies without leaving its signature.

230 Let him only see the thorns who has eyes to see the rose.

231 Set bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in the sky.

232 The same lotus of our clime blooms here in the alien water with the same sweetness, under another name.

233 In heart's perspective the distance looms large.

234 The moon has her light all over the sky, her dark spots to herself.

235 Do not say, "It is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a new-born child that has no name.

236 Smoke boasts to the sky, and Ashes to the earth, that they are brothers to the fire.

237 The raindrop whispered to the jasmine, "Keep me in your heart for ever."

The jasmine sighed, "Alas," and dropped to the ground.

238 Timid thoughts, do not be afraid of me. I am a poet.

239 The dim silence of my mind seems filled with crickets' chirp--the grey twilight of sound.

240 Rockets, your insult to the stars follows yourself back to the earth.