Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

Part Two. Translations from Bengali
Section One. Vaishnava Devotional Poetry

Selected Poems of Bidyapati

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Season of honey when sweets combine,

Honey-bees line upon line,

From sweet blossoms honied feet,

Honied blossoms and honey sweet.

O sweet is Brindabun today

And sweeter than these our Lord of May,

His maiden-train the sweets of earth,

Honey-girls with laughter and mirth,

Sports of love and dear delight

When instruments honey-sweet unite

Their sounds soul-moving, and sweet, O sweet

The smitten hands and the pacing feet.

Sweet the swaying dancer whirls,

Honied the movement of dancing girls,

And sweet as honey the love-song rings –

Sweet Bidyapati honey sings.