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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 with their translation of his book Crescent Moon. This author of the collection The Gardener imagined cutting paddies on a riverbank in a poem (15[1])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,” after (10[1])describing a place “where the mind is without fear.” This poet described “a frail vessel thou emptiest (10[1])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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