All These I Loved: English Translation
All
these
I
loved
This
dancing
of
the
light
on
the
leaves
This
playing
of
the
wild
winds
Among
the
sal
groves
They
have
all
maddened
my
mind
Along
this
red-earth
road
That
man
going
to
the
village
market
The
little
girl
sitting
on
the
dust
Playing
alone
with
her
tray
of
toys
Whatever
I
see
before
me
They
all
make
music
in
my
eyes.
Mine
is
only
a
bamboo
flute
And
I
play
only
rustic
tunes
An
earthly
bond
of
this
dusty
earth
Has
bound
my
mind
I
have
borrowed
my
view
From
the
views
of
those
boys
I
have
set
my
tunes
To
the
tunes
of
those
boys
Who
have
drunk
the
lights
Flowing
from
the
blue
of
the
skies.
Whenever
I
want
to
go
to
a
far
away
place
They
crowd
around
me
to
dissuade
The
village
sky
waving
rustic
flowers
Beckons
me
back
I
am
yet
to
exhaust
whatever
is
near
And
whatever
is
sweet
So
I
don’t
hanker
after
Whatever
is
far
All
these
titbits
I
am
yet
to
find
Their
farthest
limits
I
am
yet
to
finish
my
songs
Of
these
ordinary
things.
So
wherever
I
go
This
only
I
sing
How
much
they
have
pleased
How
they
have
held
me
in
a
spell
Day
and
night
I
have
no
time
To
do
anything
else
My
eyes
are
drowned
Drowned
is
my
mind
Don’t
call
me
It’s
of
no
use
–
Let
others
aim
something
big
Let
them
gather
more
and
more
Let
me
rove
Let
me
sing
I
don’t
want
to
be
someone
big.
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (born May 7, 1861, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India—died August 7, 1941, Calcutta) Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter who introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He was highly influential in introducing Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and he is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of early 20th-century India. In 1913 he became the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.