“Our Love has slowly slipped away,Our Love has seen its better day”

2008, Youth Day Vigil (19 July 2008)

Source: Shantaram

Source: The Shape of Time, 1982, p. 18; as cited in Lee (2001, p. 47)

Trees and Other Poems (1914), Delicatessen

Sādhanā : The Realisation of Life http://www.spiritualbee.com/spiritual-book-by-tagore/ (1916) <br class="br">Context: In love all the contradictions of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and duality not at variance. Love must be one and two at the same time.<br>Only love is motion and rest in one. Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest. But this rest itself is an intense form of activity where utter quiescence and unceasing energy meet at the same point in love.<br>In love, loss and gain are harmonised. In its balance-sheet, credit and debit accounts are in the same column, and gifts are added to gains. In this wonderful festival of creation, this great ceremony of self-sacrifice of God, the lover constantly gives himself up to gain himself in love. Indeed, love is what brings together and inseparably connects both the act of abandoning and that of receiving.

I Am the Only Being (1836)
Source: Wuthering Heights
Context: I am the only being whose doom
No tongue would ask no eye would mourn
I never caused a thought of gloom
A smile of joy since I was born
In secret pleasure — secret tears
This changeful life has slipped away
As friendless after eighteen years
As lone as on my natal day

"Fra Lippo Lippi, line 54.
Men and Women (1855)
Variant: Without love, our earth is a tomb

Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)

Pt. I, lines 33–34.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)