by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
Translation by André Gide (1869 - 1951)
Thou hast made me known to friends whom...
Language: English after the Bangla (Bengali)
Our translations: GER
Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not.
Thou hast given me seats in homes not my own.
Thou hast brought the distant near
and made a brother of the stranger.
I am uneasy at heart when I have to leave my accustomed shelter;
I forget that there abides the old in the new,
and that there also thou abidest.
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Text Authorship:
- by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in Gitanjali, no. 63, first published 1912
Based on:
- a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), appears in গীতাঞ্জলি (Gitanjali), no. 63 [text unavailable]
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2010-11-03
Line count: 14
Word count: 138
Language: French (Français) after the English
Tu m’as fait connaître à des amis que je ne connaissais pas.
Tu m’as fait asseoir à des foyers qui n’étaient pas le mien.
Celui qui était loin, tu l’as ramené proche
et tu as fait un frère de l’étranger.
Le cœur me faut quand je dois abandonner ma demeure coutumiére ;
j’oublie alors que là-bas le passé habite encore dans l’avenir
et que là aussi, toi, tu habites.
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Composition:
- Set to music by Henriette Puig-Roget (1910 - 1992), "Là-bas", stanzas 1-2 [ voice and piano ], from Le Temps de la solitude. Douze mélodies sur des poèmes de l'Offrande lyrique de Tagore, no. 7
Text Authorship:
- by André Gide (1869 - 1951), no title, appears in Gitanjali (L'Offrande lyrique), no. 63
Based on:
- a text in English by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in Gitanjali, no. 63, first published 1912
Based on:
- a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), appears in গীতাঞ্জলি (Gitanjali), no. 63 [text unavailable]
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Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2025-03-30
Line count: 14
Word count: 147