In Desperate Hope
Rabindranath Tagore
1861 to 1941
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In desperate hope I go and search for her
in all the corners of my room; I find not.
My house is small and what once has from it
can never be regained.
But infinite thy mansion, my lord,
and seeking her I to come to thy door.
I stand under the canopy of thine evening sky
and I lift my eyes to thy face.
I have come to the of eternity
from which nothing can vanish --
hope, no happiness,
no vision of a face through tears.
Oh, dip my emptied life into that ocean,
plunge it into the deepest fullness.
Let for once feel
that lost sweet touch in allness of the universe.