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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Ting-A-Ling, Ting-A-Ling, Ting-A-Ling,

Ting-A-Ling, Ting-A-Ling, Ting-A-Ling,

Ting-a-ling, ting-a-ling, ting-a-ling,
Who goes there stepping over the date leaves
Raising a melodious ji…

534
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Victoress

Victoress


O my queen
Today at last I accept defeat
My battle-flag lies at your feet
My immortal sword of victory
Is tired…

590
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Those Iron Gates of Prison

Those Iron Gates of Prison

Destroy those iron gates of prison,
demolisth the blood-stained stony altars
of chain worshipping!
O youthful …

518
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

The Worshipper

The Worshipper

After all, at this late hour,
Beloved!

Like a whirlwind blind with dust
Day and Night
When I

638
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

The Thorn of the Lotus

The Thorn of the Lotus

In my lotus-lake there remains only the

thorn of the lotus.
When did arise the tremendous noise,
Who did t…

414
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

The War Drum

The War Drum

O come, come along!
There sounds the war-drum
from beyond the vast deep.


O come, come along!
Islam i…

631
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

The Run-Away

The Run-Away

O Chakravaki! What distant melodious

call of a known flute hast thou heard?
O my fugitive Bird!
What lost abode dost…

542
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

The Resurgence (Islamic Lyric)

The Resurgence (Islamic Lyric)

There sounds the drum!
There on the ruined tower, dark and blank,
Flutters the once-mighty flag.
Raise you…

607
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

The Rebel

The Rebel

Say, Valiant,
Say: High is my head!


Looking at my head
Is cast down the great Himalayan peak!
Say, Vali…

881
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

The Nightingale is silent

The Nightingale is silent

The bulbul bird is silent in the nargis garden
Listening to the laments of the fallen flower
In spring next to the love…

610
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

The More I Take Muhammad's Name

The More I Take Muhammad's Name

The more I take Muhammad's name
The sweeter it seems to me.
Who knew before that in this name
So much of …

543
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

The Muslims No Longer Rise

The Muslims No Longer Rise

The Muslims no longer rise
With the same old fervour of faith,
With which they conquered the world apace

510
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

The First Bud of Love

The First Bud of Love

The first bud of love withers away at the first moment of meeting;
He did not heed her pleas, but flew into the deep woods.

554
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

The Month of Poush

The Month of Poush

Lo! Winter comes!
She comes across an ocean of sorrow and tears.
Beware! Beware!
She comes from behind the horizon env…

564
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

The Eternal Child

The Eternal Child

O the nameless eternal child
you have come across unknown lands,
what ornament of name you have put on!


565
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

The Eons in Waiting

The Eons in Waiting

Eons go by awaiting in hope's path
Like a desert traveler with no oasis in sight
Years Come and go quenching my thirst with t…

472
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

The Destitutes

The Destitutes

Encircled by the water-waves of suffering the
shoal of quicksand,
O insane! Who built a shack there

with your prec…

562
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

The Ecstasy of Destruction

The Ecstasy of Destruction

Come, make merry and rejoice.
There rages the summer storm
flying the flag of the New and the Young,

T…

583
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

The Bird-Hunter's Song

The Bird-Hunter's Song

Who is that who looks askance at me?
Is it a look of fear, diffidence or tenderness?


She smiles at me hold…

661
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

The Curse

The Curse

When I shall be no more
You will suffer, I promise,
Cursed, friendless and alone.
Then you will ask the evening star about me, …

698
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Talk to Me, Javas, Talk to Me

Talk to Me, Javas, Talk to Me

Talk to me, javas, talk to me --
What austerities did you do to get Syama Ma's feet?
Torn from your stems on illusio…

538
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Struggle

Struggle


You lived for so long,
Now once put your life on the line;
The same hands you use for only prayers,
With weapons let onc…

488
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Song of the Student

Song of the Student

We are the power, we are the strength,
We the band of students.
The stormy wind makes obeisance tonus
And clouds and …

684
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Song of the Do-Nothing

Song of the Do-Nothing

My mind as the Bee today runs a-field
amid the blossoms of the grass in
the field of mator-shuti -

On this …

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