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Lover's Gift and Crossing

Rabindranath Tagore · 1918

A book of English poems on love and spiritual themes by Rabindranath Tagore, published in 1918.

Tagore wrote this poetry collection, part of his large body of English-language verse published internationally.

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Rabindranath Tagore, Lover's Gift and Crossing, 1918. Scanned copy, Internet Archive.

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This is a scanned copy of Lover's Gift and Crossing, a poetry collection in English by Rabindranath Tagore, published by Macmillan. The book's opening pages list other works by Tagore, including Gitanjali, The Gardener, The Crescent Moon and several plays, showing how prolific he was as a writer.

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The collection reflects Tagore's exploration of love and spiritual longing in verse, themes found across much of his English-language poetry. The list of his other works on the opening pages shows how widely his writing was published and promoted in English by Macmillan in this period.

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