Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

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

Selected Poems of Nidhou

Why gazing in the glass I stand nor move

As rapt in bliss, hast thou not then divined?

Because thy home is in my eyes, dear love

And gazing there I gaze on thee enshrined.

And therefore must my face seen in the glass

In beauty my own former face surpass.

Thine own eyes, sweet suspecter, long have known

I love my beauty for their sake alone.