Tagore’s Lover’s Gift And Crossing Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Lover’s Gift which consisits of sixty prose stanzas
Though is a booklet of love and its feelings
And the poet a lover
Expressing lovefully
The feelings of his heart,
Personalizing or impersonalizing them.

Published in 1918 by Macmillan,
A joint collection,
The first half representing Lover’s Gift
And the second Crossing,
Having gifted the thing,
The lover crossing over to.

The poet as the speaker of Andrew Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress
And Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Maud,
Just imagines in a various mood of his,
The things of his heart coming out
And he saying to his imaginary ladylove
So emotionally.

The poet opening his heart before
And the beloved all silent,
The heart brimming with
And he laying them bare,
Lyrically,
Going sentimental.

Tagore’s Crossing is like Tennyson’s Crossing The Bar
And C.G.Rossetti’s Up-hill
And here the poet preparing mentally to be with
The steersman, the helmsman or the boatman,
Who is none but the God
And the poet praying to humbly to take him across the shore.

Crossing, a collection of some 78 prose-poems, is
A collection of going and meeting,
Sometimes on the roadway all alone,
Taking the name of His and fearing and going
But He seeing it all,
Helping strangely.