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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Send from Heaven Again

Send from Heaven Again

Send again, Hazrat! from Heaven
The message of justice and toleration!
I can no longer see this hateful hitting
be…

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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Song ( Ajo Dhoroni)

Song ( Ajo Dhoroni)

Half of the world is dark.
The other haIf has light -
It heralds the dawn of
Someone's sorrowful night.

562
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Robbers and Dacoits

Robbers and Dacoits

Who calls you a dacoit, friend,
Who calls you a robber?
All around dacoits reign today,
And thieves prosper.

601
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Save Me From All Pettiness

Save Me From All Pettiness

Save me from all smallness
O my Lord, the Graciousness!
Teach me, O Lord, no sin is worse
than the sin of pett…

528
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Resurrection

Resurrection


Wake up
You captives of hunger, arise.
You harassed, down-trodden masses,
Spell thunder at the oppressors -
T…

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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Rise Up, O Farmer!

Rise Up, O Farmer!

O farmer, where is tile smile of your face?
Where is' your shepherd's bamboo flute'!
Where is your jute?
Who plunders …

576
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Prostitute

Prostitute


Who calls you a prostitute, Mother?
Who spits at you?
Perhaps you were suckled by someone
as chaste as Seeta.

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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Poverty

Poverty


O poverty, thou hast made me great.
Thou hast made me honoured like Christ
With his crown of thorns. Thou hast given me
C…

744
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Pain of the Poor

Pain of the Poor

These children-suffering
from a lack of mother's care,
in rags, their bodies covered with dirt,
faces dried up from star…

647
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Pioneers, O Pioneers

Pioneers, O Pioneers

O you who look so soiled and weary,
Collect your armour for the struggle,
Your rusty shovels, heavy hammers,
To save…

519
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

O Thou Nightingale of Madina

O Thou Nightingale of Madina

O thou Nightingale of Madina?
What's that ghazal from the lips of thine
Which has made the rose of love
Bloo…

681
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

O Destitutes!

O Destitutes!

With the curved smile on your tender lips, O crescent, is it a crooked suggestion?
Are you looking for companions to join you to loot every…

497
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

My Prophet Mohammad

My Prophet Mohammad

Syed Makki Madani,
he is my prophet Mohammad.
The friend of God, full of kindness,
he is the dearly beloved of all. <…

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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

My Songs

My Songs

My songs like wounded birds, faIl

At thy feet, O darling. Pick up all

Those bleeding birds in your breast

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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

My Dearest Nightingale

My Dearest Nightingale

Please come back, come back to my empty bosom
The morning flowers wither away untimely
Mourning your loss
Won't yo…

496
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

My Explanation

My Explanation

I am a poet of today, not a prophet of a future day,
Poet or worthless, call me whatever, I put up with anything you say.
Some say…

614
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

My Beauty

My Beauty

Dressed as a bridegroom, I know
my beauty shall come from afar,
across distant lands of separation,
after ages together.

467
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Make Islam strong, O God!

Make Islam strong, O God!

Make Islam strong, O God,
let the Muslim world again prosper.
Give it back its sultanate of old,

its an…

550
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Lonely in My Floral chariot

Lonely in My Floral chariot

O my friend,
you walked on your thorny path smiling,
seeing me lonely in my floral chariot, crying.

<…

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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Like a Lost Bird

Like a Lost Bird

At the end of the rolIing road, my dearest, I await alone;
Rolling in the dust of the path you have traveled.
The way you have w…

504
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Let's Meet Hereafter!

Let's Meet Hereafter!

We will meet again in the life Hereafter;
Here, please, forget me with a simple laughter.
Anything that remained unsaid,

508
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Life

Life


An awakening pervades
The meadows and wilderness
Let not your slumber
Make it go in vain.
The lightning is beckoning…

588
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Kings and Subjects

Kings and Subjects

I am the bard of equality.
At the crossroads I sing,
Where pity and sympathy
Have made us all comrades and brother

626
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

Irrepressible Youth

Irrepressible Youth

O restless and impetuous youth!
Who hid thy face with the mask of wisdom
And clothed thee with the apparel of patience?

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