Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

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

Twenty-two Poems of Bidyapati

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A shining grace the damsel’s face to her laughter and speech doth lend,

As tho’ the sweet full moon of autumn heaven’s nectar rained.

A jewel of women with beauty more than human,

I saw her gait of lion state ungracèd nought nor common.

Her middle than the lion’s slender is,

Her body soft as lotuses;

It seemed a branch with weight breaking of her breasts pomegranate.

Yea and her lovely eyes being with blackness dressed

Were unstained lotuses enamoured bees invest.

The lover beautiful seeing sweet Radha’s grace

Breaketh his longing heart with passionate distress.