Bengali modernism

Gitanjali 23: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy jo

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Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend?

The sky groans like one in despair.


I have no sleep tonight. Ever and again I open my door and look out on

the darkness, my friend!


I can see nothing before me. I wonder where lies thy path!


By what dim shore of the ink-black river, by what far edge of the

frowning forest, through what mazy depth of gloom art thou threading

thy course to come to me, my friend?