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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

I Know Your Compassion Mother

I Know Your Compassion Mother

I know your compassion Mother and hence await better days.
I may meanwhile be battered with losses, want and debt.

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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

I Sing of Heroes

I Sing of Heroes

I sing of Heroes -

The youth, the revolutionary,

Who armed with a sharp Excalibur

Today go forth …

606
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Human Being

Human Being

I sing of equality.
There's nothing greater than a human being,
nothing nobler!
Caste, creed, religion-there's no difference.…

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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

I am a Proud Muslim Woman

I am a Proud Muslim Woman

I am a proud muslim woman,
I'm the scent of a flower in the household-desert.


The dark Ka'aba I've illu…

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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Help me do the crossing

Help me do the crossing

Help me do the crossing,
Oh Lord of the Universe.
The boat is rocking on the waves of pity; endless is the crossing.

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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Hope

Hope


Perhaps we shall meet,
Where the bending sky kisses
The green wilderness.


Yonder, in the village field

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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

God

God


Who are you, my friend,
searching for God in heaven
and the underworld?
Who are you-searching
through the wilderness …

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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Grief-Laden Mid-Night

Grief-Laden Mid-Night

In this still solitude of deep mid-night
Tears unbidden appear in my eyes
What recollection doth enrapture
Whose di…

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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Forgive us, O Prophet!

Forgive us, O Prophet!

We haven't embraced your message,
Please forgive us, O Prophet!
We have forgotten your ideals
And the path for us …

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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Fateha-i-Doazdaham [The Passing Away]

Fateha-i-Doazdaham [The Passing Away]

What an amazing sight is this!
Tears well up even is Azrail's eyes!
His stony heart lies in a sea of grief<…

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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Faith and Hope

Faith and Hope

Don't look up to them-those
who have lost faith and hope.
They move-yet they're dead-the living dead,
the devil has finish…

543
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Fanaticism is not Religion!

Fanaticism is not Religion!

Bullying, hypocrisy or fanaticism: that's not what religion is all about
According to all scriptures, fanatics are disciples …

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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Equality

Equality


I sing the song of equality.

I sing of the country

Where fresh joys blossom forth in, the hearts of men

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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Evening Star

Evening Star

Oh, dear evening star
Whose bride art thou with veils,
In the glances of your eyes,
Whose forgotten face dwells?

537
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Eid, at the end of fasting of Ramadan

Eid, at the end of fasting of Ramadan

O heart, Ramadan has come to an end,
and the happy Eid knocks at the door for all,
Come, today give yoursel…

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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Eid Mobarak

Eid Mobarak

After the lapse of a year
you have come, Eid,
having crossed many a desert
of hundreds of miles,
having caused many a…

814
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Day-Labourer

Day-Labourer


Your luxury cars are plying through the streets
And your big ships are cruising Over the Oceans.
The fast steam engines are …

795
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Dearest, Don't Say You Have to go!

Dearest, Don't Say You Have to go!

Dearest, do not say you have to go!
Do not play games with me, no, no, no!
Today the flowers in the garden pla…

538
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Coward

Coward


I know,
Why you do not look back
You have left your abode
For the temple of God
To while away the time
Wit…

660
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Coming of Anondomoyee

Coming of Anondomoyee

How much longer will you
stay hidden behind a clay statue?
Heaven today is subjugated by merciless tyrants.
God's c…

655
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Come on Quick go to Madina

Come on Quick go to Madina

Come on quick those who wish
To the city of Madina to go:
At the Landing-ghat is already in
The sacred boat wi…

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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Come with Hari

Come with Hari

Come back to my dreary heart, do come back;
Evening comes too, where are you my bird,
come back to my nest.


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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Come Hither

Come Hither

Come hither, the 'fallen', the 'impure', the 'outcastes'!
Let us all worship The Holy Mother together!


Only when all …

609
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

By the Wood

By the Wood

Who walks by the woods,
methink, he is known to me.

Beating night's silence in rhythmic patterns
his jingles ring onm…

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