Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

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

Selected Poems of Nidhou

11

Ere I had taken half my will of joy,

Why hast thou, Night, with cruel swiftness ceased?

To slay a woman’s heart with sad annoy,

O ruddy Dawn, thou openest in the east.

The whispering world begins in dawn’s red shining,

Nor will Night stay one hour for lovers’ pining.

Ere love is done, must Dawn our love discover?

Ah why should lovers’ blissful meeting

Mix so soon with parting’s sorrow?

On happy night come heavy morrow?

Night will not stay for love’s entreating.

Ere love was done, ah me! the night was over.