Gitanjali Song Offerings Author:Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali is a collection of "song offerings to the Creator". Tagore uses the images common to classical Indian love poetry to symbolize his yearning to merge with God. So the mud-stained traveler, the parched earth in summer, the bride awaiting in the empty house for the return of her lord, the first monsoon shower, the flowers and rivers and c... more »onch shells are images which gain a mystical depth in these poems.
Included in this edition is W. B. Yeats introduction to the first edition of Tagore's English rendering of this collection.« less