Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

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

Twenty-two Poems of Bidyapati

10

I have seen a girl no words can measure,

On golden tendrils proudly borne a face,

A spotless moon, a snowy treasure.

Her eyes two lotuses with unguent shaded,

Were play-grounds of sweet loving thought,

Or fluttering, captive birds in a net embedded

Of that dark unguent solely wrought.

Her heavy hills of milk a necklace richer

Of elephant pearls did touch and gleam –

Love sprinkling from her throat, that brimful pitcher,

On golden images heaven’s stream.

Fortunate were he who by Proyaga’s waters

Long sacrificing might avail

At last to win her. Lover of Gocool’s daughters!

Darling of Gocool! true thy tale.