Rabindranath Tagore 
Fruit-Gathering 

‘Fruit-Gathering’ is a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore, a Nobel Prize-winning poet known for his profound sensitivity and beautiful verse. The poems are rather short and more prose-like, remaining untitled except for the Roman numerals that differentiate them from one another. Here’s an excerpt from the first poem in ‘Fruit Gathering’: ‘Bid me and I shall gather my fruits to bring them in full baskets into your courtyard, though some are lost and some not ripe / For the season grows heavy with its fulness, and there is a plaintive shepherd’s pipe in the shade.’