Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

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

Selected Poems of Horo Thacoor

7

(The soul longs for reunion with God, without whom the sweetnesses of love and life are vain.)

All day and night in lonely anguish wasting

The heart’s wish to the lips unceasing comes,–

“O that I had a bird’s wings to go hasting

Where that dark wanderer roams!

I should behold the flute on loved lips resting.”

Where shall I find him, joy in his sweet kisses?

How shall I hope my love’s feet to embrace?

O void is home and vain affection’s bliss is

Without the one loved face.

Crishna who has nor home nor kindred misses.