I Am Restless
I
am
restless.
I
am
athirst
for
far-away
things.
My
soul
goes
out
in
a
longing
to
touch
the
skirt
of
the
dim
distance.
O
Great
Beyond,
O
the
keen
call
of
thy
flute!
I
forget,
I
ever
forget,
that
I
have
no
wings
to
fly,
that
I
am
bound
in
this
spot
evermore.
I
am
eager
and
wakeful,
I
am
a
stranger
in
a
strange
land.
Thy
breath
comes
to
me
whispering
an
impossible
hope.
Thy
tongue
is
known
to
my
heart
as
its
very
own.
O
Far-to-seek,
O
the
keen
call
of
thy
flute!
I
forget,
I
ever
forget,
that
I
know
not
the
way,
that
I
have
not
the
winged
horse.
I
am
listless,
I
am
a
wanderer
in
my
heart.
In
the
sunny
haze
of
the
languid
hours,
what
vast
vision
of
thine
takes
shape
in
the
blue
of
the
sky!
O
Farthest
end,
O
the
keen
call
of
thy
flute!
I
forget,
I
ever
forget,
that
the
gates
are
shut
everywhere
in
the
house
where
I
dwell
alone!
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.