by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
Translation by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
On the day when death will knock at thy...
Language: English after the Bangla (Bengali)
Available translation(s): GER
On the day when death will knock at thy door, what wilt thou offer to him? Oh, I will set before my guest the full vessel of my life; I will never let him go with empty hands. All the sweet vintage of all my autumn days and summer nights, all the earnings and gleanings of my busy life, will I place before him at the close of my days when death will knock at my door.
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Authorship
- by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in Gitanjali, no. 90, first published 1912 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
- a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in গীতাঞ্জলি (Gitanjali), no. 90 [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 Josef Alexander (1907 - 1992), "On the day", 1973 [soprano, harpsichord, and percussion], from Gitanjali, no. 9 [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by John Alden Carpenter (1876 - 1951), "On the day when death will knock at thy door", published 1914 [voice and piano], from Gitanjali (Song Offerings), no. 2, New York, G. Schirmer [ sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Finnish (Suomi), a translation by Helmi Krohn (1871 - 1967) ENG GER GER GER SWE ; composed by Erkki Gustaf Melartin.
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ENG GER GER GER SWE ; composed by Henri-Pierre Poupard, as Henri Sauguet.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Marie Luise Gothein (1863 - 1931) , first published 1914 ENG SWE ; composed by Stefan Wolpe.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Thomas Schubert (b. 1961) , copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [an adaptation] ENG SWE ; composed by Thomas Schubert.
- Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Nino (Hjalmar) Runeberg (1874 - 1934) ENG GER GER GER ; composed by Erkki Gustaf Melartin.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Thomas Schubert) , copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [an adaptation]
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Geoffrey Wieting
Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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