Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

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

Selected Poems of Nidhou

How much thou didst entreat! with what sweet wooing

Thou hast bewitched my soul to love thee!

Now when I’ve loved thee to my own undoing,

O marvel! all my piteous tears and suing

To bless me with thy presence cannot move thee.

Would I, if I had known ere all was over,

Have given my heart for thy sole pleasure?

So sweet thy words, I fell in love with loving

And gave my heart, the very roots removing.

How could I know that thy love had a measure?