Tuesday October 8<\/p>\n
Sweet sunrise this morning. \u00a0 Here’s another of Tagore’s 100 prayer-poems from \u00a0Gitanjali<\/span>\u00a0 Have a good day.<\/p>\n john st sj<\/p>\n That I want Thee, only thee–let my heart repeat without end.<\/p>\n All desires that distract me, day and night,<\/p>\n are false and empty to the core.<\/p>\n As the night keeps hidden in its gloom the petition for light,<\/p>\n even thus in the depth of my unconsciousness rings the cry–<\/p>\n “I want thee, only thee.”<\/p>\n As the storm still seeks its end in peace when it strikes against<\/p>\n peace with all its might, even thus my rebellion strikes against thy love<\/p>\n and still its cry is–“I want thee, only thee.”<\/p>\n Tagore, Gitanjali<\/span>\u00a0 # 38<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tagore died in the city of his birth, Calcutta, in 1941. \u00a0He vastly influenced poetry, sacred and secular, not only in India but around the world. \u00a0He is the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. \u00a0If you buy Gitanjali,<\/span>\u00a0a book of 100 short sacred poems, prepare yourself to only read one poem at a time so you can sit with it. \u00a0Here is # 1. \u00a0 These poems have no titles, only numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tuesday October 8 Sweet sunrise this morning. \u00a0 Here’s another of Tagore’s 100 prayer-poems from \u00a0Gitanjali\u00a0 Have a good day. john st sj That I want Thee, only thee–let my heart repeat without end. All desires that distract me, day … Continue reading