Gitanjali

Gitanjali is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. The original Bengali collection, comprising more than one hundred poems, was first published on 4 August 1910. Its central theme is devotion, and its motto is "I am here to sing thee songs". Many of its poems were later turned into songs, forming part of the body of work known as Rabindra Sangeet.

In November 1912, the India Society of London published Gitanjali: Song Offerings, an English version of one hundred prose poems. Tagore translated them himself from his Bengali texts and from other works of his. The translations were often free, leaving out or altering large portions of the poems. The edition was widely popular in the West and was translated into many languages. In 1913 Tagore received the Nobel Prize in Literature, chiefly for this book, becoming the first non-European to win it. The work is part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works.