Tagore’s Lover’s Gift And Crossing

Lover’s Gift which consisits of sixty prose stanzas Though is a booklet of love and its feelings And the poet a lover Expressing lovefully The feelings of his heart, Personalizing or impersonalizing them. Published in 1918 by Macmillan, A joint collection, The first half representing Lover’s Gift And the second Crossing, Having gifted the thing, The lover crossing over to. The poet as the speaker of Andrew Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress And Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Maud, Just imagines in a various mood of his, The things of his heart coming out And he saying to his imaginary ladylove So emotionally. The poet opening his heart before And the beloved all silent, The heart brimming with And he laying them bare, Lyrically, Going sentimental. Tagore’s Crossing is like Tennyson’s Crossing The Bar And C.G.Rossetti’s Up-hill And here the poet preparing mentally to be with The steersman, the helmsman or the boatman, Who is none but the God And the poet praying to humbly to take him across the shore. Crossing, a collection of some 78 prose-poems, is A collection of going and meeting, Sometimes on the roadway all alone, Taking the name of His and fearing and going But He seeing it all, Helping strangely.