I HAVE KISSED this world with my eyes and my limbs; I have wrapt it within my heart in numberless folds; I have flooded its days and nights with thoughts till the world and my life have grown one,-and I love my life because I love the light of the sky so enwoven with me.
If to leave this world be as real as to love it-then there must be a meaning in the meeting and the parting of life.
If that love were deceived in death, then the canker of this deceit would eat into all things, and the stars would shrivel and grow black.

I FELT I SAW your face, and I launched my boat in the dark.
Now the morning breaks in smiles and the spring flowers are in bloom.
Yet should the light fail and the flowers fade I will sail onward.
When you made mute signal to me the world slumbered and the
darkness was bare.
Now the bells ring loud and the boat is laden with gold.
Yet should the bells become silent and my boat be empty I will sail onward.
Some boats have gone away and some are not ready, but I will not
tarry behind.
The sails have filled, the birds come from the other shore.
Yet, if the sails droop, if the message of the shore be lost, I will sail onward.

মিথ্যা আমি কী সন্ধানে
            যাব কাহার দ্বার।
পথ আমারে পথ দেখাবে,
            এই জেনেছি সার।
শুধাতে যাই যারি কাছে,
কথার কি তার অন্ত আছে।
যতই শুনি চক্ষে ততই
          লাগায় অন্ধকার।
পথের ধারে ছায়াতরু
            নাই তো তাদের কথা,
শুধু তাদের ফুল-ফোটানো
            মধুর ব্যাকুলতা।
দিনের আলো হলে সারা
অন্ধকারে সন্ধ্যাতারা
শুধু প্রদীপ তুলে ধরে
            কয় না কিছু আর।