Among these were The Golden Boat (Sonar Tari) and the well known Khanika. Then, in between 1893 and the beginning of the 1890s, he published a total of seven volumes of poetry. He later collected a large selection of folklore and local legands from the area now known as Bangladesh. Tagore wrote his first collection of poems at the age of 17, and it was published by one of his friends as a surprise gift. By 1883, he had married and had three daughters and two sons, all from his only wife, Mrinalini Devi Raichaudhuri. His earliest education was provided by tutors, followed then by a variety of schools including one year at a college in London. Tagore, the youngest of his family, began composing poetry at the young age of eight. His family were pioneers within the Bengal Renaissance, making great efforts to combine their traditional culture from India with those of the Western. Sarada Devi, his mother, died when he was just a young boy - when her body was carried out through the courtyard and then burned, was when he first realized that his mother would never return. His Brahman family was wealthy and prominent his father, Maharishi Debendranath Tagore, was a scholar and religious reformer. Rabindranath Tagore was born in 1861 in the vast city of Calcutta. The Gardener XXXVIII: My Love, Once upon a Time.The Gardener XXVIII: Your Questioning Eyes.The Gardener XXVI: What Comes From Your Willing Hands.The Gardener XXIV: Do Not Keep to Yourself.The Gardener XXII: When She Passed by Me.The Gardener XXCIII: She Dwelt on the Hillside.The Gardener XX: Day After Day He Comes.The Gardener XLIV: Reverend Sir, Forgive.The Gardener XLII: O Mad, Superbly Drunk.The Gardener XIV: I Was Walking by the Road.The Gardener X: Let Your Work Be, Bride.The Gardener LXXXI: Why Do You Whisper So Faintly.

The Gardener LXVIII: None Lives For Ever, Brother.

The Gardener LXIX: I Hunt for the Golden Stag.

The Gardener LVII: I Plucked Your Flower.

The Gardener LI: Then Finish the Last Song.The Gardener IX: When I Go Alone at Night.Lover's Gifts XXII: I Shall Gladly Suffer.Lover's Gifts XVI: She Dwelt Here by the Pool.Lover's Gifts XLVIII: I Travelled the Old Road.Lover's Gifts XLIII: Dying, You Have Left Behind.Lover's Gifts XLII: Are You a Mere Picture.Lover's Gifts XIX: It Is Written in the Book.Lover's Gifts XIL: There Is a Looker-On.Lover's Gifts XIII: Last Night in the Garden.Lover's Gifts VIII: There Is Room for You.Lover's Gifts V: I Would Ask For Still More.Lover's Gifts LXX: Take Back Your Coins.

Lover's Gifts LVIII: Things Throng and Laugh.

Lover's Gifts LVI: The Evening Was Lonely.

Lover's Gifts LIV: In the Beginning of Time.

Lover's Gifts IV: She Is Near to My Heart.

Lover's Gifts II: Come to My Garden Walk.

Tagore poems