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This author exclaims, “your feet are rosy-red with the glow of my heart’s desire!” in a poem that inspired Pablo Neruda’s “In My Sky At Twilight.” Zenobia Camprubí and Juan Ramón Jiménez introduced this poet to Spain (15[1])with their translation of his book Crescent Moon. This author of the collection The Gardener imagined cutting paddies on a riverbank in a poem whose narrator hears a woman sing in the title (*) vessel. A poem by this author ends, “into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake,” (10[1])after describing a place “where the mind is without fear.” This poet described “a frail vessel thou emptiest again and again” in the first poem of a collection with a preface by W. B. Yeats. For 10 points, name this poet who wrote, “thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure” in his collection Gitanjali. ■END■

ANSWER: Rabindranath Tagore (The poem in the third sentence is “The Golden Boat.”)
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