Bengali modernism

Gitanjali 17: I am only waiting for love to give myself up a

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I am only waiting for love to give myself up at last into his hands.

That is why it is so late and why I have been guilty of such omissions.


They come with their laws and their codes to bind me fast; but I evade

them ever, for I am only waiting for love to give myself up at last

into his hands.


People blame me and call me heedless; I doubt not they are right in

their blame.


The market day is over and work is all done for the busy. Those who

came to call me in vain have gone back in anger. I am only waiting for

love to give myself up at last into his hands.