Kazi Nazrul Islam Poems

There smiles the Eid-ul-Azha moon,
there comes again the second Eid.
Make your sacrifice in the name of God,
come, comply with His wish.
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I know your compassion Mother and hence await better days.
I may meanwhile be battered with losses, want and debt.
You cause me pain only to take me to your Bosom.
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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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