"Time after time I came to your gate with raised hands, asking for more and yet more.
You gave and gave, now in slow measure, now in sudden excess.
I took some, and some things I let drop; some lay heavy on my hands; some I made into playthings and broke them when tired; till the wrecks and the hoard of your gifts grew immense, hiding you, and the ceaseless expectation wore my heart out.
Take, oh take--has now become my cry.
Shatter all from this beggar's bowl: put out this lamp of the importunate watcher: hold my hands, raise me from the still-gathering heap of your gifts into the bare infinity of your uncrowded presence."
Really wanting Dresden/Marcone based off of this poem. It feels full of buildup and potential to me, like it could be the sort of good that aches at the end.
Yep. Lovely, lovely work, to where I start looking around for Bengali lessons to get it in the original (which I should not be doing in interests of Other School and Stuff, but--!)
This one, though, out of the Fruit-Gathering collection, is the one I keep going back to over and over again.
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Inspired by a previous prompt --
You gave and gave, now in slow measure, now in sudden excess.
I took some, and some things I let drop; some lay heavy on my hands; some I made into playthings and broke them when tired; till the wrecks and the hoard of your gifts grew immense, hiding you, and the ceaseless expectation wore my heart out.
Take, oh take--has now become my cry.
Shatter all from this beggar's bowl: put out this lamp of the importunate watcher: hold my hands, raise me from the still-gathering heap of your gifts into the bare infinity of your uncrowded presence."
Really wanting Dresden/Marcone based off of this poem. It feels full of buildup and potential to me, like it could be the sort of good that aches at the end.
Re: Inspired by a previous prompt --
(Anonymous) 2011-03-24 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)(was the other tagore prompter)
Re: Inspired by a previous prompt --
This one, though, out of the Fruit-Gathering collection, is the one I keep going back to over and over again.