The Gardener 1915 is a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore Translated into English by Tagore and dedicated to Irish poet W B Yeats The Gardener is a collection of earlier poems republished following his ascension to international fame with the 1912 Nobel Prize in Literature When Yeats discovered Tagores work in translation he felt an intense kinship with a man whose work was similarly grounded in spirituality and opposition to the British Empire For the Irish poet Tagores poems were at once deeply personal and essentially universal like a secret kept by all and shared regardless Whether or not we admit it his words never fail to remind us to be human is to be vulnerable quotIn the morning I cast my net into the sea I dragged up from the dark abyss things of strange aspect and strange beautysome shone like a smile some glistened like tears and some were flushed like the cheeks of a bride Then the whole night through I flung them one by one into the street In the morning travellers came they picked them up and carried them into far countriesquot In his landmark collection Gitanjali Tagore explored the realm of the spirit paring down language to its clearest purest form In...
