Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

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

Selected Poems of Nidhou

How could I know that he was waiting only

For an excuse to leave me?

I was so sure he loved me, not one lonely

Suspicion came to grieve me.

But now a small offence his pretext making

He has buried Love and left me;

Blithely has gone, his whole will of me taking,

Having of bliss bereft me.

Too well he knows my grief of heart, not caring

Tho’ it break through his disdain.

I sit forsaken, all my beauty wearing

But as a crown of pain.