Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

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

Selected Poems of Nidhou

I did not dream, O love, that I

Would ever have thee back again.

The sunflower drooping hopelessly

Expects no sun to end her pain.

I did not dream my lord would show

Favour to his poor slave-girl more,

That I should mix my eyes as now

With the dear eyes I panted for.

I did not dream my huge desire

Would be filled full and grief be over,

But burning in love’s bitter fire

With hopeless longing for my lover,

One thought alone possessed thy slave,

“Lord of my life, where art thou gone?

Wilt thou not come that life to save?”

Dumbly this thought and this alone.