Occasionally, looking back at that classical era, the gifts of love were mostly purely spiritual, for example, contained in the following verses
The love flower of my youth
You can pick whenever you want
Hair in hair
With the pure cinnabar I love
In your eyebrow will be
Red mole depiction
- Tagore, "The Plea"
In "The Plea", Tagore is willing to give his youth as a gift to his lover, allowing her to pick it up at any time. Behind the "supplication" we see the deepness, humility and hopelessness of love.