Tradition and verse — not medical advice

Indian lullabies and children's verse, public domain

Poems from Rabindranath Tagore's The Crescent Moon (1913), a book he wrote in English himself. Shown in his own words, never a translation we invented, each with our own short plain-language summary clearly marked as ours.

• Baby's Way
• Sleep-Stealer
• The Astronomer
• The Source
• On the Seashore
• The Champa Flower
• The Rainy Day
• The Beginning
• When and Why
• Defamation
• Playthings
• The Little Big Man
• Authorship
• The First Jasmines
• The Gift
• Baby's World
• The Judge

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