Who stole sleep from baby’s eyes? I mus… Clasping her pitcher to her waist mother… from the village near by. It was noon. The children’s playtime wa… the pond were silent.

91 THE great earth makes herself hospitabl… with the help of the grass. 92 THE birth and death of the leaves

IX Amidst the rush and roar of life, O bea… Great Time sits enamoured at your feet… “Speak, speak to me, my love; speak, my… But your speech is shut up in stone, O…

II Keep me fully glad with nothing. Only t… In the gloom of the deepening night take… I will spread myself out at your feet an… Make my life glad with nothing.

I THE DARK In a worldless timeless lightless great… Four—faced Brahma broods. nasad asin, no sad asit tadanim; nasid raja no vioma paro yat.

Deliverance is not for me in renunciatio… I feel the embrace of freedom in a thous… Thou ever pourest for me the fresh draug… colours and fragrance, filling this eart… My world will light its hundred differen…

Most of the lyrics of love and life, the translations of which from Bengali are published in this book, were written much earlier than the series of religious poems contained in the boo...

I have made You the polar star of my existence; never again can I lose my way… voyage of life. Wherever I go, You are always there to shower your benefience all around me. Yo…

I ask for a moment’s indulgence to sit b… that I have in hand I will finish after… Away from the sight of thy face my heart… and my work becomes an endless toil in a… Today the summer has come at my window w…

I dreamt that she sat by my head, tender… her fingers, playing the melody of her t… and struggled with my tears, till the ag… my sleep like a bubble. I sat up and saw the glow of the Milky…

THE tame bird was in a cage, the free b… They met when the time came, it was a de… The free bird cries, ‘O my love, let us… The cage bird whispers, ‘Come hither, l… Says the free bird, 'Among bars, where…

No, my friends, I shall never be an ascetic, whatever you may say. I shall never be an ascetic if she does not take the vow with me. It is my firm resolve that if I cannot find a shady ...

I hunt for the golden stag. You may smile, my friends, but I pursue… I run across hills and dales, I wander… You come and buy in the market and go ba… I have no care in my heart; all my belon…