Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

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

Selected Poems of Nidhou

9

Cease, clouds of autumn, cease to roll;

Your thunders slay a poor girl’s soul.

Love of my heart, in distant lands thou roamest.

The musical rich sound of rain

But touching me, ah, turns to pain.

Love of my heart, in distant lands thou roamest.

The pleasant daylight brings delay

Of added infelicity

Because of one face far away,

Grief of heart where joy should be.

Love of my heart, in distant lands thou roamest.

The glorious lightning as it burns

Goes shuddering through my body faint

And my sad eyes remembrance turns

Into moist fountains of complaint.

Love of my heart, in distant lands thou roamest.

Cease, clouds of autumn, cease to roll;

Your thunders slay a poor girl’s soul.

Love of my heart, in distant lands thou roamest.