Stream of Life

For the 2012 bronze sculpture, see Stream of Life (sculpture).

"Stream of Life" is a Bengali poem written by Indian Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and translated by him into English. It first appeared in the collection Gitanjali, where it is numbered #69 out of the 157 poems; Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for its English translation, Song Offerings.

The poem consists of five sentences, with the first phrase — "The same stream of life..." — providing the English title. Tagore repeats the phrase "the same life" as he likens the life within him (the blood in his veins) to the sap in grass and flowers, to the ebb and flow of "the ocean-cradle," to the rhythms in music and dancing, and to the flowing stream of time.

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