এসেছিনু দ্বারে ঘনবর্ষণ রাতে,
               প্রদীপ নিবালে কেন অঞ্চলঘাতে।
কালো  ছায়াখানি মনে পড়ে গেল আঁকা,
        বিমুখ মুখের ছবি অন্তরে ঢাকা,
               কলঙ্করেখা যেন
     চিরদিন চাঁদ বহি চলে সাথে সাথে।
     কেন বাধা হল দিতে মাধুরীর কণা
          হায় হায়, হে কৃপণা।
               তব যৌবন-মাঝে
                   লাবণ্য বিরাজে,
     লিপিখানি তার নিয়ে এসে তবু
          কেন যে দিলে না হাতে।

YOU ASK ME, mother, where I most wish to go. It is there from
where I first came to you. But I never can remember the place.
My father smiles at my trouble and says. 'It is beyond the clouds
in the land of the evening star.'
But I hear from you, it is deep in the bosom of the earth, from
where the flowers come away seeking the sun.
'That land lies unseen,' my auntie says, 'in the bottom of the
sea, hiding all the precious gems in its store.'
My brother pulls my hair and says, 'How can you find it, you
stupid one, for it is mingled in the air.'
It must be everywhere, it seems to me when I listen to you all.
Only my school-master shakes his head and says'It is nowhere.'

I.121. tohi men lagan lagaye re phakir wa
TO THEE Thou hast drawn my love, O Fakir!
I was sleeping in my own chamber, and Thou didst awaken me; striking me with Thy voice, O Fakir!
I was drowning in the deeps of the ocean of this world, and Thou didst save me: upholding me with Thine arm, O Fakir!
Only one word and no secondand Thou hast made me tear off all my bonds, O Fakir!
Kabir says, 'Thou hast united Thy heart to my heart, O Fakir!'