My love, once upon a time your poet lyrics

My love, once upon a time your poet

launched a great epic in his mind.

Alas, I was not careful,

and it struck your ringing anklets and came to grief.

It broke up into scraps of songs

and lay scattered at your feet.

All my cargo of the stories of old wars

was tossed by the laughing waves

and soaked in tears and sank.

You must make this loss good to me, my love.

If my claims to immortal fame after death are shattered,

make me immortal while I live.

And I will not mourn for my loss nor blame you.

• Artist:Rabindranath Tagore