Gitanjali 19
If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endureit. I will keep still and wait like the night with starry vigil and itshead bent low with patience.
The morning will surely come, the darkness will vanish, and thy voicepour down in golden streams breaking through the sky.
Then thy words will take wing in songs from every one of my birds’nests, and thy melodies will break forth in flowers in all my forestgroves.
Words in this poem
- starry a.
- Abounding with stars; adorned with stars.
- vigil n.
- Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch. [OE. vigile, L. vigilia, from vigil awake, watchful, probably akin to E. wake: cf. F. vigile. See Wake, v. i., and cf. Reveille, Surveillance, Vedette, Vegetable]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Gitanjali 19 is in the public domain. This text is taken from Gitanjali (Song Offerings), a collection of prose translations made by the author from the original Bengali, with an introduction by W. B. Yeats (India Society, London, 1912), Project Gutenberg ebook #7164; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
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