তোমাতে আমাতে আছে তো প্রভেদ
           জানি তা বন্ধু, জানি,
     বিচ্ছেদ তবু অন্তরে নাহি মানি।
           এক জ্যোৎস্নায় জেগেছি দুজনে
           সারারাত-জাগা পাখির কূজনে,
           একই বসন্তে দোঁহাকার মনে
                 দিয়েছে আপন বাণী।
তুমি চেয়ে আছ আলোকের পানে,
                 পশ্চাতে মোর মুখ--
     অন্তরে তবু গোপন মিলনসুখ।
           প্রবল প্রবাহে যৌবনবান
           ভাসায়েছে দুটি দোলায়িত প্রাণ,
           নিমেষে দোঁহারে করেছে সমান
                    একই আবর্তে টানি।
সোনার বর্ণ মহিমা তোমার
           বিশ্বের মনোহর,
     আমি অবনত পাণ্ডুর কলেবর।
           উদাস বাতাসে পরান কাঁপায়ে
           অগৌরবের শরম ছাপায়ে
           আমারে তোমার বসাইল বাঁয়ে,
                    একাসনে দিল আনি।
           নবারুণরাগে রাঙা হয়ে গেল
                   কালো ভেদরেখাখানি।

সুন্দর বটে তব অঙ্গদখানি
            তারায় তারায় খচিত,
স্বর্ণে রত্নে শোভন লোভন জানি
            বর্ণে বর্ণে রচিত।
খড়্‌গ তোমার আরো মনোহর লাগে
            বাঁকা বিদ্যুতে আঁকা সে,
গরুড়ের পাখা রক্তরবির রাগে
            যেন গো অস্ত-আকাশে।
জীবন-শেষের শেষ জাগরণসম
            ঝলসিছে মহাবেদনা-
নিমেষে দহিয়া যাহা-কিছু আছে মম
            তীব্র ভীষণ চেতনা।
সুন্দর বটে তব অঙ্গদখানি
            তারায় তারায় খচিত-
খড়্‌গ তোমার,হে দেব ব্রজপাণি,
চরম শোভায় রচিত।

THIS LONGING TO meet in the play of love, my Lover, is not only mine but yours.
        Your lips can smile, your flute make music, only through delight in my love; therefore you are importunate even as 1.
I SIT HERE on the road; do not ask me to walk further.
        If your love can be complete without mine let me turn back from seeking you.
        I refuse to beg a sight of you if you do not feel my need.
        I am blind with market dust and mid-day glare, and so wait, in hopes that your heart, my heart's lover, will send you to find me.
I AM POURED forth in living notes of joy and sorrow by your breath.
        Mornings and evenings in summer and in rains, I am fashioned to music.
        Should I be wholly spent in some flight of song, I shall not grieve, the tune is so dear to me.
MY HEART is a flute he has played on. If ever it fall into other hands let him fling it away.
IN LOVE THE aim is neither pain nor pleasure but love only.
        While free love binds, division destroys it, for love is what unites.
        Love is lit from love as fire from fire, but whence came the first flame?
        In your being it leaps under the rod of pain.
        Then, when the hidden fire flames forth, the in and the out are one and all barriers fall in ashes.
        Let the pain glow fiercely, burst from the heart and beat back darkness, need you be afraid?
        The poet says, 'Who can buy love without paying its price? When you fail to give yourself you make the whole world miserly.'
EVES SEE ONLY dust and earth, but feel with the heart, and know pure joy.
        The delights blossom on all sides in every form, but where is your heart's thread to make a wreath of them?
        My master's flute sounds through all things, drawing me out of my lodgings wherever they may be, and while I listen I know that every step I take is in my master's house.
        For he is the sea, he is the river that leads to the sea, and he is the landing-place.
STRANGE WAYS has my guest.
        He comes at times when I am unprepared, yet how can I refuse him?
        I watch all night with lighted lamp; he stays away; when the light goes out and the room is bare he comes claiming his seat, and can I keep him waiting?
        I laugh and make merry with friends, then suddenly I start up, for lo! he passes me by in sorrow, and I know my mirth was vain.
        I have often seen a smile in his eyes when my heart ached, then I knew my sorrow was not real.
        Yet I never complain when I do not understand him.
        I AM THE BOAT, you are the sea, and also the boatman.
        Though you never make the shore, though you let me sink, why should I be foolish and afraid?
        Is reaching the shore a greater prize than losing myself with you?
        If you are only the haven, as they say, then what is the sea?
        Let it surge and toss me on its waves, I shall be content.
        I live in you whatever and however you appear. Save me or kill me as you wish, only never leave me in other hands.
MAKE WAY, O bud, make way, burst open thy heart and make way.
        The opening spirit has overtaken thee, canst thou remain a bud any longer?