{"id":3211,"date":"2019-10-08T00:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T04:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2019-10-08T11:05:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T15:05:19","slug":"i-ask-for-a-moment-to-sit-by-thy-side-rabindranath-tagore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2019\/10\/08\/i-ask-for-a-moment-to-sit-by-thy-side-rabindranath-tagore\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201dI ask for a moment . . . to sit by thy side\u201d  Rabindranath Tagore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 8, 2019<\/p>\n<p>From Monday,\u00a0October 7 to Monday, October 14, I will be making my annual retreat in New England. \u00a0I will occasional check emails to catch important messages, but for the most part stillness wants my attention.<\/p>\n<p>Time to breathe in and out slowly, almost like reading an 8 day long poem.<\/p>\n<p>Have a blest week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>john st sj<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post \u00a0 Rabindranath Tagore \u00a0Gitanjali # 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I ask for a moment\u2019s indulgence to sit by thy side. The works<br \/>\nthat I have in hand I will finish afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Away from the sight of thy face my heart knows no rest nor respite,<br \/>\nand my work becomes an endless toil in a shoreless sea of toil.<\/p>\n<p>Today the summer has come at my window with its sighs and murmurs; and<br \/>\nthe bees are plying their minstrelsy at the court of the flowering grove.<\/p>\n<p>Now it is time to sit quite, face to face with thee, and to sing<br \/>\ndedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.<\/p>\n<p>Tagore, \u00a0Gitanjali # 5<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/04\/Tagore.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-445\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/04\/Tagore-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/04\/Tagore-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/04\/Tagore.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913<br \/>\n<\/strong>Rabindranath Tagore<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 8, 2019 From Monday,\u00a0October 7 to Monday, October 14, I will be making my annual retreat in New England. \u00a0I will occasional check emails to catch important messages, but for the most part stillness wants my attention. Time to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2019\/10\/08\/i-ask-for-a-moment-to-sit-by-thy-side-rabindranath-tagore\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3214,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions\/3214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}