Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

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

Selected Poems of Horo Thacoor

5

(The soul finds that the Eternal is attracted to other than itself and grows jealous.)

O fondly hast thou loved, thyself deceiving,

But he thou lovest truth nor kindness keeps;

His tryst thou servest, disappointed, grieving,–

He on another’s lovelier bosom sleeps.

With Chundra’s sweets he honeys out the hours.

If thou believe not, come and thou wilt find him

In night’s pale close upon a bed of flowers,

Thy Shyama with those alien arms to bind him.

For I have seen her languid swooning charms

And I have seen his burning lovely youth,

Bound breast to breast with close entwining arms

And mouth upon inseparable mouth.