Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

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

Selected Poems of Nidhou

1

Eyes of the hind, you are my jailors, sweetest;

My heart with the hind’s frightened motion fleetest

In terror strange would flee,

But find no issue, sweet; for thy quick smiling,

Thy tresses like a net with threads beguiling

Detain it utterly.

I am afraid of thy great eyes and well-like,

I am afraid of thy small ears and shell-like,

And everything in thee.

Comfort my fainting heart with soft assurance

And soon it will grow tame and love its durance,

Hearing such melody.