The Gardener 61: Peace, My Heart
The Gardener 61: Peace, My Heart - meaning Summary
Parting as Gentle Completion
Tagore’s short lyric imagines parting as a calm, dignified completion rather than violent loss. The speaker asks for farewell to be sweet and transforming: love turning into memory, pain into song, motion into a returned nest. The poem frames the end as gentle, intimate, and ritualized, requesting silence and a final tender touch. The closing gesture—holding up a lamp—conveys guidance and reverence for what departs.
Read Complete AnalysesPeace, my heart, let the time for the parting be sweet. Let it not be a death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest. Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of the night. Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last words in silence. I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way.
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