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SRI AUROBINDO
SONGS OF VIDYAPATI
May, 1956
and Radha became very popular, and through Sri Chaitanya, who
adored them, they gained a high status and wide circulation,
especially in Bengal. Indeed, the Bengalis adopted Vidyapati as
their own poet and have since considered him as one of the
twin creators of Bengali poetry. His langage developed
into a special style
for the expression
of that particular kind
of
attitudeand emotion which Vaishnavism represents. Even Tagore
continued the tradition and has a good number of poems to
his credit in this style.
The translations included in this volume were made from a
very old Bengali version which is given here in Devanagri scfipt.
This an early work of Sri Aurobindo, done most probably
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A maid she is
unparalleled.
O her face and lovely lights
its !
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VII
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VIII
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XI
HOW Men
shall I tell of
will
Caanou's beauty bright?
believe it a vision of the night.
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XIII
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XV
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XVI
Thine arm and the new leaves shake these hands to see.
But ah !
my weary lips refuse
O'erstrained with honey-sweet comparisons
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XVII
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XXIII
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XXV
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XXVI
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maiden pride
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XXIX
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SONGS OF VIDTAPATI
XXX
f~\ LIFE is sweet but youth more bright.
O life, it is youth and youth is delight.
And what is
youth if it be not this,
Love, true love, and lover's long kiss.
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XXXII
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XXXIII
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XXXIV
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maiden choice
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XXXV
OTILL highways wake nor dream
in the
light government
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XXXVI
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XXXVII
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XXXIX
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APPZNDIX
(Alternative Versions)
(i)
(Poem VII)
1
Tiic wilful fluttering^ of her dress
2
wild
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SONGS OF VIDYAPATI
(2)
(Poem VIII)
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(3)
(Poem XVIII)
86
SONGS OF VIDTAPATI
(4)
(Poem XXIII)
87