Death
O
thou
the
last
fulfilment
of
life,
Death,
my
death,
come
and
whisper
to
me!
Day
after
day
I
have
kept
watch
for
thee;
for
thee
have
I
borne
the
joys
and
pangs
of
life.
All
that
I
am,
that
I
have,
that
I
hope
and
all
my
love
have
ever
flowed
towards
thee
in
depth
of
secrecy.
One
final
glance
from
thine
eyes
and
my
life
will
be
ever
thine
own.
The
flowers
have
been
woven
and
the
garland
is
ready
for
the
bridegroom.
After
the
wedding
the
bride
shall
leave
her
home
and
meet
her
lord
alone
in
the
solitude
of
night.
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.