Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

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

Selected Poems of Nidhou

Line not with these dark rings thy bright eyes ever!

Such keen shafts are enough to slay unaided;

To tip the barbs with venom why endeavour?

O then no heart could live thy glance invaded.

Why any live wouldst thou have explanation?

Three powers have thine eyes of grievous passion.

The first is poison making them death’s portal,

The second wine of strong intoxication;

The third is nectar that makes gods immortal.