by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
Translation by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
My songs are like bees; they follow...
Language: English  after the Bangla (Bengali)
My songs are like bees; they follow through the air some fragrant trace -- some memory -- of you, to hum around your shyness, eager for its hidden store. When the freshness of dawn droops in the sun, when in the noon the air hangs low with heaviness and the forest is silent, my songs return home, their languid wings dusted with gold.
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Authorship:
- by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in The Fugitive and Other Poems, first published 1921 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Karim Adam Al-Zand (b. 1970), "My songs are like bees", 2004 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Tagore Love Songs, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Karim Adam Al-Zand (b. 1970), "My songs are like bees", 2004 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from The Secret of your Heart, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2010-11-07
Line count: 7
Word count: 61