# Rabindranath Tagore | Mother, If You Agree: 20 Classic Poems - Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2019/12/03/rabindranath-tagore-mother-if-you-agree-20-classic-poems/ - Published: 2019-12-03T02:10:03+00:00 - Author: shuktara Rate this post **Translator:** Prabir Chaudhury[](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Mother-If-You-Agree-scaled-1.jpeg) ** Pages:** 72 **Year of Publication:** 2019 **Price:** Rs 200 **ISBN:** 978-81-941819- 5-8 (9788194181958) _**About the Translator**_ Prabir Chaudhury was born in 1956 and educated in Christian missionary schools in eastern India, and the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. A statistician by training, he has contributed papers on household survey methodology to national and international journals. However, he has not published his Tagore translations anywhere before. He can be contacted at . _**About the Book**_ This book comprises translations of selected poems by Tagore from his _Shishu, Sphulinga, Lekhan, Swadesh, Shishu Bholānāth, Sonār Tari, Kshanikā, Prabhāt Sangit, Kalpanā_ and _Kathā o Kāhini_. _**Contents**_ _Introduction_ / 9 Failure / 13 Three Poems from _Lekhan_ / 14 Happy Birth / 15 _Tāl_ Tree / 16 On the Shore of the World-Ocean / 18 The Beginning / 20 The Voyage / 22 The Two Birds/ 24 Goodbye / 26 The Paper Boat / 28 The Clouds and the Rain-Song / 31 The Boatman/ 33 Her Name Is Ranjana / 35 To Them Give Your Blessings / 37 The Baby / 39 The Pleasure of Gazing / 41 Nightfall / 44 The Worshipper / 46 The Head Sale / 50 The Invention of the Shoe / 54 _Translator’s Notes_ / 59 _Source Poems_ / 70