Kazi Nazrul Islam Poems

I'll go away for good, yet won't let you forget me.
I'll turn into wind and caress your hair when you begin loosening it.
When under the spell of your tune the sky gets drowsy and
the wind cries,
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Don't welcome me,
rather plunder;
conquer me, the timid,
by the might of your heart.
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In the desert's sandy vastness blossomed a bright flower
whose fragrance enamoured the universe.
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The one who was sent for everyone, in his own case
He was deprived of parental affection, a shelter or a place.

So that he will be in tune with all the souls' pain,
The Ever Mysterious sent to this world this hapless chieftain.
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Encircled by the water-waves of suffering -
the shoal of quicksand,
O insane! Who built a shack there
with your precious hand?
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By a drum beat to a heavenly height
from earth beneath and soil's blight
Youth rise in the dawn's light,
Left, now, now, right!
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I sing the song of equality.
I sing of the country
Where fresh joys blossom forth in, the hearts of men
And budding life shimmers in their faces.
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You have to cross the darkness of the night
A desert vast and a hill of great height,
And an ocean, fathomless and dark.
Travellers, beware and look sharp.
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From its nest behind the termite-eaten
wooden beams of the huge building
a baby sparrow cried out for its mother.
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Come darling and be my love!
I shall adorn thy hair with flowers of stars,
And thy ears with rings of the
young spring moon.
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