by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
Translation by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
My songs are like bees Matches original text
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.
Composition:
- Set to music by Karim Adam Al-Zand (b. 1970), "My songs are like bees", 2004 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Tagore Love Songs, no. 7
Text Authorship:
- by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in The Fugitive and Other Poems, first published 1921
Based on:
- a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) [text unavailable]
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This text was added to the website: 2010-11-07
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Word count: 61