{"id":3256,"date":"2013-07-13T01:46:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=3256"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:46:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:46:59","slug":"02-selected-poems-of-nidhu-babu-vol-poems-from-bengali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/02-other-editions\/poems-from-bengali\/02-selected-poems-of-nidhu-babu-vol-poems-from-bengali","title":{"rendered":"-02_Selected Poems of Nidhu Babu.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;line-height:150%\">\n<b><i><font size=\"5\">Selected Poems<\/font><\/i><font size=\"5\"> <\/font><\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;line-height:150%\">\n<b><i><font size=\"5\">of<\/font><\/i><font size=\"5\"> <\/font><\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;line-height:150%\">\n<b><font size=\"5\">NIDHU BABU<br \/>\n<\/font><\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\n<hr>\n<div align=\"center\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-02_Other Editions\/Poems From Bengali\/_images\/S2.jpg\" width=\"314\" height=\"192\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\nI<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">EYES of the hind, you are my jailors, sweetest;\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">My heart with the hind&#8217;s frightened motion fleetest\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">In terror strange would flee.\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">But find no issue, sweet; for thy quick smiling,\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Thy tresses like a net with threads beguiling\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Detain it utterly.\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">I am afraid of thy great eyes and well-like,\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">I am afraid of thy small ears and shell-like,\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">And everything in thee.\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Comfort my fainting heart with soft assurance\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">And soon it will grow tame and love its durance,\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Hearing such melody.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-2<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-3<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div align=\"center\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-02_Other Editions\/Poems From Bengali\/_images\/S3.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"148\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\nII\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">LINE not with these dark rings thy bright eyes ever!\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Such keen shafts arc enough to slay unaided;\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">To tip the barbs with venom why endeavour?\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">O then no heart could live thy glance invaded.\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Why any live wouldst thou have explanation?\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Three powers have thine eyes of grievous passion.\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">The first is poison making them death&#8217;s portal,\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">The second wine of strong intoxication;\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">The third is nectar that makes gods immortal.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-4<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-5<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: 10pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-02_Other Editions\/Poems From Bengali\/_images\/S4.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"210\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\nIII\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">IF the heart&#8217;s hope were never satisfied,\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Then no man could for long his life retain.\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">The cloud to which the impatient rain-lark cried\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Contents at last the suffering bird with rain\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0 25px;text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;text-indent:25px\">And bids him not to thirst forever.\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0 25px;text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;text-indent:25px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">And see the lamp with the moth flitting near it;\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">A little forward and he swells the fire.\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">But he invites that end and does not fear it,\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Gladly he burns himself at love&#8217;s desire.\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0 25px;text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;text-indent:25px\">In bliss to die is his endeavour.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-6<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-7<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-02_Other Editions\/Poems From Bengali\/_images\/Selected9.jpg\" width=\"209\" height=\"128\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\nIV\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">WHAT else have I to give thee? I have yielded &quot;\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">My heart at thy discretion,\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">And is there than the heart a closer-shielded\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Reluctant sweet possession?\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Dear, if thou know of such as yet ungiven,\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">I will not grudge but yielding think if heaven.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-8<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-9<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: 10pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-02_Other Editions\/Poems From Bengali\/_images\/Selected11.jpg\" width=\"242\" height=\"122\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\nV<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">MY eyes arc lost in thine as in great rivers,\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">My soul is in their depths of beauty drowned.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Love in thine eyes three sacred streams delivers,\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Whose waves with crests of rushing speed are crowned.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">The wind of love has stirred thy fluttering lashes,\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">The tide of love heaves in thy sweet emotion;\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">My beating heart feels as it seaward washes\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Billows of passion rush a stormy ocean.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-10<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-11<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-02_Other Editions\/Poems From Bengali\/_images\/Selected13.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"153\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\nVI\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">S<span class=\"font1\">WEET, gaze not always on thine own face in the mirror,<br \/>\n\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">\n\t<span class=\"font1\">Lest <\/span>looking<span class=\"font1\"> so on thine own wondrous<br \/>\nbeauty, <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">\n\t<span class=\"font1\">Thou lose <\/span>the<span class=\"font1\"> habit of thy queenly<br \/>\nduty <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0 25px;text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;text-indent:25px\">\n\t<span class=\"font1\">And thy poor subject quite forget. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0 25px;text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;text-indent:25px\">\n\t<span class=\"font1\">Well may I fear such fatal error, <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">\n\t<span class=\"font1\">Since they who always on their own wealth look <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">\n\t<span class=\"font1\">Grow misers and to spend it cannot brook. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\n\t<span class=\"font1\">Lest thou like these grow miser of thy beauty, sweet.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-12<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-13<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-02_Other Editions\/Poems From Bengali\/_images\/Selected15.jpg\" width=\"215\" height=\"130\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<span class=\"font1\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\nVII<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">WHY gazing in the glass I stand nor move\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">As rapt in bliss, hast thou not then divined?\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Because thy home is in my eyes, dear love\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">And gazing there I gaze on thee enshrined.\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">And therefore must my face seen in the glass\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">In beauty my own former face surpass.\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Thane own eyes, sweet suspecter, long have known\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">I love my beauty for their sake alone.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-14<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-15<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-02_Other Editions\/Poems From Bengali\/_images\/Selected17.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"145\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\nVIII\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">THE whom I woo makes with me no abiding;\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">He<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"font1\">whom<\/span> I shun<sup>1<\/sup> parts not for all my chiding.\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Absence I quite contemn; he loves nor loves me;\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Union my life is; ever he deceives me.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-16<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-17<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-02_Other Editions\/Poems From Bengali\/_images\/Selected19.jpg\" width=\"316\" height=\"124\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<span class=\"font1\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\nIX\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">CEASE, clouds of autumn, cease to roll;\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Your<br \/>\n<\/span>thunders<span class=\"font1\"> slay a poor girl&#8217;s soul. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Love of my heart, in distant lands thou roamest.\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">The musical rich sound of rain\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">But touching me, ah, turns to pain.\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Love of my heart, in distant lands thou roamest.\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">The pleasant daylight brings delay\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Of added infelicity\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Because of one face far away,\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Grief of heart where joy should be.\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Love of my heart, in distant lands thou roamest.\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">The glorious lightning as it burns\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Goes shuddering through my body faint\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">And my sad eyes remembrance turns\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Into moist fountains of complaint.\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Love of my heart, in distant lands thou roamest.\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Cease, clouds of autumn, cease to roll;\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Your thunders slay a poor girl&#8217;s soul.\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Love of my heart, in distant lands thou roamest.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-18<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-19<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: 10pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-02_Other Editions\/Poems From Bengali\/_images\/Selected21.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"214\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<span class=\"font1\"><br \/>\n\t\t<span class=\"font3\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\n<b>X<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">THE spring is here, sweet friend, the spring is here\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">And<br \/>\n\t\t<\/span>all<span class=\"font3\"> his captains brings to make me moan. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">How many dreadful armed things appear\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">One by<\/span><\/span><span class=\"font3\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"font1\">one. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"font3\"><span class=\"font1\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">The cuckoo of his black bands captain is,\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">The full moon marshals his white companies.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">The nectared moon grown poisonous as a snake,\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">A<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span>venomed<span class=\"font1\"> arrow is the murmuring bee. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">The cuckoo&#8217;s cunning note my heart doth break<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><span class=\"font1\">Utterly<span class=\"font3\">.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-20<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-21<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: 10pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-02_Other Editions\/Poems From Bengali\/_images\/Selected23.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"139\"><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"font3\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\nXI<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">ERE I had taken half my will of joy,\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Why hast<\/span><span class=\"font1\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><span class=\"font3\">thou, Night, with cruel swiftness ceased?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">To slay a woman&#8217;s heart with sad annoy,\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">O ruddy Dawn, thou openest in the cast.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">The whispering world begins in dawn&#8217;s red shining,\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Nor will Night stay one hour for lovers&#8217; pining.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">\n\t\t\t<i>Ere love<\/i> <i>is done, must Dawn our love discover?<\/i> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Ah why should lover&#8217;s blissful meeting\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Mix so<br \/>\n\t\t\t<i>soon<\/i> with parting&#8217;s sorrow? <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">On happy night come heavy morrow?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Night will not<br \/>\n\t\t\t<i>stay<\/i> for love&#8217;s entreating. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Ere love was done, ah me! the night was over.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-22<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-23<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: 10pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-02_Other Editions\/Poems From Bengali\/_images\/Selected25.jpg\" width=\"232\" height=\"145\"><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"font3\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\nXII\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">NAY, though thy absence was a tardy fire,\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Yet in such meeting is a worse derision;\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">For never yet the passionate eyes&#8217; desire\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Drew comfort from such momentary vision.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Who ever heard of great heats soon expended,\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Huge fire with a little burning ended?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-24<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-25<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: 10pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-02_Other Editions\/Poems From Bengali\/_images\/Selected27.jpg\" width=\"223\" height=\"137\"><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"font3\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\nXIII\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">T SAID in anger, &quot;When next time he prays,\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">I will be sullen and repulse his charms.&quot;\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Ah me! but when I saw my lover&#8217;s face,\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">I quite forgot and rushed into his arms.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Mine eyes said, &quot;We will joy in him no longer;\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Vainly let him entreat nor pardon crave.&quot;\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">He came, nor pardon asked; my bonds grew stronger,\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">I am become more utterly<sup>1<\/sup> his slave.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-26<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-27<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\n<b><i>.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-02_Other Editions\/Poems From Bengali\/_images\/Selected29.jpg\" width=\"286\" height=\"131\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\nXIV\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">A<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"font1\">H sweet, thou hast not understood my love,\u2014\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">This is<br \/>\n\t<\/span><span class=\"font3\">my<\/span><span class=\"font1\"> grief, thou hast not understood.\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Else would my heart&#8217;s pain thy compassion move,\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Who in my heart persistest like heart&#8217;s blood\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">When 1 am dead, then wilt thou pity prove\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">And with thy sorrow on deaf ears intrude?\n\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">This is my grief thou hast not understood.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-28<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-29<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-02_Other Editions\/Poems From Bengali\/_images\/Selected31.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"141\"><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"font1\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\nXV\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">HOW much thou didst entreat! with what sweet wooing\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Thou hast bewitched my soul to love thee!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Now when I&#8217;ve loved thee to my own undoing,\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">O marvel! all my piteous tears and suing\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">To bless me with thy presence cannot move thee.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Would I, if I had known ere all was over,\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Have given my heart for thy sole pleasure?\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">So sweet thy words, I fell in love with loving\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">And gave my heart, the very roots removing.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">How could I know that thy love had a measure?\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-31<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-02_Other Editions\/Poems From Bengali\/_images\/Selected33.jpg\" width=\"276\" height=\"175\"><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"font1\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\nXVI\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">HOW could I know that he was waiting only\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">For an excuse to leave me?\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">I was so sure he loved me, not one lonely\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Suspicion came to grieve me.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">But now a small offence his pretext making\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">He has buried Love and left me;\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Blithely has gone, his whole will of me taking,\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Having of bliss bereft me.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Too well he knows my grief of heart, not caring\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Tho&#8217; it break through his disdain.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">I sit forsaken, all my beauty wearing\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">But as a crown of pain.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-32<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-33<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: 10pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-02_Other Editions\/Poems From Bengali\/_images\/Selected35.jpg\" width=\"246\" height=\"165\"><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"font1\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\nXVII\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">IN TO the hollow of whose hand my heart\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">I gave once, surely thinking him my lover,\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">How shall I now forget him? by what art\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0 25px;text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;text-indent:25px\">My captive soul recover?\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0 25px;text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;text-indent:25px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">I look Love&#8217;s graver up and slow portrayed\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">His beauty on my soul with lingering care.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">How shall the picture<sup>1<\/sup> from its back-ground fade,\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0 25px;text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;text-indent:25px\">Burnt in so deeply there.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0 25px;text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;text-indent:25px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">&quot;He has forgotten thee, forget him thou;&quot;\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">All say to me, &quot;a vain thing is regret.&quot;\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Ah yes, that day when death is on my brow,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0 25px;text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;text-indent:25px\">&nbsp;I shall indeed forget.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-34<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-35<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: 10pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-02_Other Editions\/Poems From Bengali\/_images\/Selected37.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"130\"><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"font1\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\nXVIII&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">HAST thou remembered me at last, my own\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">And therefore come after so many days?\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">When man has once drained love and elsewhere flown,\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Does he return to the forgotten face?\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Therefore I think by error thou hast come.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Or else a passing pity led thee home.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-36<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-37<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: 10pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-02_Other Editions\/Poems From Bengali\/_images\/Selected39.jpg\" width=\"253\" height=\"220\"><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"font1\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\nXIX\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">I<br \/>\nDID not dream, O love, that I\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Would ever have thee back again.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">The sunflower drooping hopelessly\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Expects no sun to end her pain.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">I<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"font0\">did not dream my lord would show <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"font0\">Favour <\/span>to<span class=\"font0\"> his poor slave-girl more,\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">That I should mix my eyes as now\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">With the<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><span class=\"font0\">dear<span class=\"font1\"><br \/>\n\t\t\teyes I <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"font0\"><span class=\"font1\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">I did not dream my huge desire\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Would be<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"font1\">filled full and grief be over, <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">But burning in love&#8217;s bitter fire\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">With<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><span class=\"font1\">hopeless<span class=\"font0\"> longing for my lover,<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"font1\"><span class=\"font0\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">One thought alone possessed thy slave,\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">&quot;Lord of my<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>life<span class=\"font0\">, where art thou gone <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Wilt thou not come this life to save?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">&quot; Dumbly this<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><span class=\"font0\">thought<span class=\"font1\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tand this alone. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-38<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;line-height:150%\">\nPage-39<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: 10pt;line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/elibrarytest\/-01 Works of Sri Aurobindo\/-02_Other Editions\/Poems From Bengali\/_images\/Selected41.jpg\" width=\"215\" height=\"122\"><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"font0\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"font1\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\nXX\n<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">IN true sweet love what more than utter bliss is,\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">He only<br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span>knows<span class=\"font1\"> who is himself true lover. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">As moonbird seeks the moon, she seeks his kisses,\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:25px\">Liberal of<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><span class=\"font1\">nectar<span class=\"font0\"><br \/>\n\t\t\the yearns down above her. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"60%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-family:Times New 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