One poem in this collection compares the "bondage of finery" to a "child...decked with prince's robes". This collection's speaker wonders "who is this that follows me in the silent dark?" and is "ashamed" to find that it is his "little self" with a "loud voice." This collection contains a discussion with a prisoner who is bound in his own treasure-house and a woman who has gone "to join the carnival of lamps." One line in this collection describes a place "where the mind is without fear" into which the speaker prays his (*) country will awake. An essay included in this collection quotes a poem about children playing on a seashore and describes how its poems "stirred my blood as nothing has for years." The first poem
One poem in this collection compares the "bondage of finery" to a "child...decked with prince's robes". This collection's speaker wonders "who is this that follows me in the silent dark?" and is "ashamed" to find that it is his "little self" with a "loud voice." This collection contains a discussion with a prisoner who is bound in his own treasure-house and a woman who has gone "to join the carnival of lamps." One line in this collection describes a place "where the mind is without fear" into which the speaker prays his (*) country will awake. An essay included in this collection quotes a poem about children playing on a seashore and describes how its poems "stirred my blood as nothing has for years." The first poem in this collection opens "thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure," and it contains an introduction by W. B. Yeats. For 10 points, name this collection of "song offerings" written by Rabindranath (ruh-BIN-druh-nath) Tagore (tuh-GORE).
One poem in this collection compares the "bondage of finery" to a "child...decked with prince's robes".
Gitanjali [accept Song Offerings until "song" is read]