Languor is Upon Your Heart by Rabindranath Tagore (Poem & Summary)

Languor is Upon Your Heart

by Rabindranath Tagore

(Poem & Summary)

This is the 55^th poem of ‘Gitanjali’. In the poem, Tagore is really good at explaining how people feel when they're in love. When two people are in love, it feels like their love is everything in the whole world. Being in love feels much more amazing and happier than going through all the difficult, sad, and tiring steps to be together.

Languor is Upon Your Heart

Languor is upon your heart and the slumber is still on your eyes.

Has not the word come to you that the flower is reigning in splendour among thorns? Wake, oh awaken! Let not the time pass in vain!

At the end of the stony path, in the country of virgin solitude my friend is sitting all alone. Deceive him not. Wake, oh awaken!

What if the sky pants and trembles with the heat of the midday sun - what if the burning sand spreads its mantle of thirst -

Is there no joy in the deep of your heart? At every footfall of yours, will not the harp of the road break out in sweet music of pain?

Summary

In the song, the main idea is about the incredible happiness that comes from being united with a divine being. Even though the path to this divine happiness may be difficult, it is also very enjoyable.

The poet or singer, who is deeply in love with the divine, is feeling lazy and sleepy. Meanwhile, the divine lover is waiting alone at the end of a rocky path. A friend of the poet tells him that his lover is waiting for him there, just like a beautiful flower growing among thorns. The friend urges the poet not to delay, even if the weather is hot and the ground is burning.

The friend convinces the poet that even though the journey towards spiritual bliss may be challenging, the destination is magnificent and brings immense joy. He says that as the poet goes to meet the divine lover, the very road will fill the air with beautiful music. It will be a sweet and melodious music that can only come from enduring the heat and difficulties along the way.

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