"Gitanjali 35" by Rabindranath Tagore

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend December 31, 2017   Gitanjali 35   Rabindranath Tagore

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;      Where knowledge is free;      Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow              domestic walls;      Where words come out from the depth of truth;      Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;      Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the                          dreary desert sand of dead habit;      Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening                                thought and action—      Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.            This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   "Gitanjali 35" was published in Gitanjali (Song Offerings) (Macmillan, 1913).   Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta, now Kolkata, in India, in 1861. His book Gitanjali (Song Offerings) (Macmillan, 1913) received the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in 1941. Poetry by Tagore   Gitanjali (Song Offerings) (Martino Fine Books, 2015)   "Of the Irresolubleness of Diamonds" by Monica Ferrell "Prayer at Sunrise" by James Weldon Johnson "Time to be the fine line of light" by Carrie Fountain Help Support Poem-a-Day This Holiday Season   If you value Poem-a-Day, please consider a tax-deductible monthly donation or one-time gift to help make it possible. As the year comes to a close, we are raising funds to support this one-of-a-kind free series, which showcases hundreds of poems by today's poets, as well as classic poems. Thank you! Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038