1914
On the Day When Death Will Knock
Composed by 
John Alden Carpenter
John Alden Carpenter Text by 
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali: Song Offerings Song Collection
"On the Day When Death Will Knock at Thy Door" is the second song in John Alden Carpenter's song cycle Gitanjali: Song Offerings based on the Nobel-Prize winning poetry of Rabindranath Tagore.
Text
On the Day When Death Will Knock at Thy Door
by Rabindranath Tagore
On the day when death will knock at thy door,
what wilt thou offer to him?
Oh, I will set before my guest the full vessel of my life;
I will never let him go with empty hands.
All the sweet vintage of all my autumn days and summer nights,
all the earnings and gleanings of my busy life,
will I place before him at the close of my days
when death will knock at my door.
Related Information
Nobelprize.org
nobelprize.org/search/?query=Rabindranath+Tagore
Sheet Music
Gitanjali
John Alden Carpenter
1. When I Bring to You Colour'd Toys
2. On the Day When Death Will Knock
3. The Sleep That Flits on Baby's Eyes
4. I Am Like a Remnant of a Cloud of Autumn
5. On the Seashore of Endless Worlds
6. Light, My Light
2. On the Day When Death Will Knock
3. The Sleep That Flits on Baby's Eyes
4. I Am Like a Remnant of a Cloud of Autumn
5. On the Seashore of Endless Worlds
6. Light, My Light