IF I AM impatient today, forgive me, my love. It is the first summer rain, and the riverside forest is aflutter, and the blossoming kadam trees, are tempting the passing winds with wine-cups of perfume. See, from all corners of the sky lightnings are darting their glances, and winds are rampant in your hair.
If to-day I bring my homage to you, forgive me, my love. The everyday world is hidden in the dimness of the rain, all work has stopped in the village, the meadows are desolate. In your dark eyes the coming of the rain finds its music, and it is at your door that July waits with jasmines for your hair in its blue skirt.

THE DEPARTING night's one kiss
on the closed eyes of morning
glows in the star of dawn.

হে প্রিয়, দুঃখের বেশে
      আস যবে মনে
তোমারে আনন্দ ব'লে
      চিনি সেই ক্ষণে।