HERE is thy footstool and there rest thy feet where live the poorest, and lowliest, and lost. When I try to bow to thee, my obeisance cannot reach down to the depth where thy feet rest among the poorest, lowliest, and lost. Pride can never approach to... Rabindranath Tagore: The Man and His Poetry - Page 154by Basanta Koomar Roy - 1915 - 223 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ramananda Chatterjee - 1913 - 422 pages
...Indian classics and in the Vaishnava literature of medieval Bengal. Even such a poem as that beginning 'Here is thy footstool and there rest thy feet where live the poorest, and lowliest, and lost', which is so wholly Christian in spirit, may be found, symbolically expressed, in a hundred passages... | |
| George Harris - 1914 - 292 pages
...expressed in the meditation of Tagore, a modern Hindu, in one of his " Song Offerings " to God in the "Gitanjali." Here is thy foot-stool, and there rest...the depth where thy feet rest, among the poorest and the lowliest and lost. Pride can never approach to where thou walkest in the clothes of the humble... | |
| Edwin Herbert Lewis - 1917 - 40 pages
...depth, but you forget it when Tagore says to God: Here is thy footstool and there rest thy feet vrhere live the poorest, and lowliest, and lost. When I try...feet rest among the poorest, and lowliest, and lost. 1 1 Gitanjali, poem 10. w estera pantnetsn and pHi |a f^Mjn>»in entign are rarely personal. To Spinoza... | |
| William Edward Sladen Holland - 1918 - 280 pages
...not dead in India, we have only to turn to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet of to-day : — " Here is thy footstool and there rest thy feet where...lowliest, and lost. Pride can never approach to where ihou walkest in the clothes of the humble among the poorest, and lowliest, and lost. My heart can never... | |
| Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan - 1918 - 322 pages
...and the naked ; for does not God live in them all? Is not a child born in the slum God's creation ? " Here is thy footstool and there rest thy feet where live the poorest, and lowliest, and lost." * VI The liberated soul of the true saint does not wish to escape from this world but tries to improve... | |
| Caroline Miles Hill - 1923 - 888 pages
...Glory to Man in the highest! for Man is the master of things. From GITANJALI RABINDRANATH TAGORE 10 Here is thy footstool and there rest thy feet where live the poorest, and lowliest, and best. When I try to bow to thee, my obeisance cannot reach down to the depth where thy feet rest among... | |
| E. Stevinson - 1923 - 110 pages
...is Thy footstool, and here rest Thy feet where live the poorest, the lowliest and the lost. When I bow to Thee my obeisance cannot reach down to the depth where Thy feet rest amongst the poorest, the lowliest and the lost. — RABINDRANATH TAGORE. THE children of our slum areas... | |
| Caroline Miles Hill - 1928 - 888 pages
...Man in the highest! for Man is the master of things. From GITANJALI RABINDRANATH TAGORE 10 Here ts thy footstool and there rest thy feet where live the poorest, and lowliest, and best. When I try to bow to thee, my obeisance cannot reach down to the depth where thy feet rest among... | |
| Dr. S. Radhakrishnan - 1992 - 532 pages
...of men. Our love should go to every creature, the naked and the hungry, the sick and the stranger. Here is thy footstool and there rest thy feet where live the poorest, and lowliest, and lost.1 Again When they had struck thee and thou were pierced it pained me to the quick. Rabindranath... | |
| Jung Young Lee - 1995 - 222 pages
...A long time ago, East Indian Rabindranath Tagore wrote a beautiful poem that seems to depict Jesus: Here is thy footstool and there rest thy feet where...to the depth where thy feet rest among the poorest, lowliest, and lost. Pride can never approach to where thou walkest in the clothes of the humble among... | |
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