The poem "My Shadow" by Robert Louis Stevenson describes a young boy and his shadow. The shadow mimics the boy's movements in amusing ways, growing taller or shrinking. One morning the shadow stays in bed while the boy gets up early to see the dew on the buttercups. The shadow is portrayed as lazy and like a companion that sticks close by the boy's side.
The poem "My Shadow" by Robert Louis Stevenson describes a young boy and his shadow. The shadow mimics the boy's movements in amusing ways, growing taller or shrinking. One morning the shadow stays in bed while the boy gets up early to see the dew on the buttercups. The shadow is portrayed as lazy and like a companion that sticks close by the boy's side.
The poem "My Shadow" by Robert Louis Stevenson describes a young boy and his shadow. The shadow mimics the boy's movements in amusing ways, growing taller or shrinking. One morning the shadow stays in bed while the boy gets up early to see the dew on the buttercups. The shadow is portrayed as lazy and like a companion that sticks close by the boy's side.
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.
The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow; For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball, And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all.
He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play, And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way. He stays so close beside me, he's a coward, you can see; I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!
One morning, very early, before the sun was up, I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup; But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
I Can not Remember My Mother
I cannot remember my mother
only sometimes in the midst of my play
a tune seems to hover over my playthings,
the tune of some song that she used to
hum while rocking my cradle.
I cannot remember my mother
but when in the early autumn morning
the smell of the shiuli flowers floats in the air
the scent of the morning service in the temple
comes to me as the scent of my mother.
I cannot remember my mother
only when from my bedroom window I send
my eyes into the blue of the distant sky,
I feel that the stillness of
my mother's gaze on my face
has spread all over the sky.
By Rabindranath Tagore from Sishu Bholanath
Where The Mind Is Without Fear
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit Where the mind is led forward by thee Into ever-widening thought and action Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake