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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

In the Desert's Sandy Vastness

In the Desert's Sandy Vastness

In the desert's sandy vastness blossomed a bright flower
whose fragrance enamoured the universe.

The moon …

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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

In Salutation of One God

In Salutation of One God

Let them spread jealousy, prejudice and defamation,
We will offer justice, peace and one God's proclamation.
Let them se…

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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

If I was Daddy, and Daddy was Me

If I was Daddy, and Daddy was Me

If I was Daddy and Daddy was Khoka (that's me),

if he didn't finish memorizing the multiplication tables I'd tap…

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Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam

I'll Hide in Song after Song

I'll Hide in Song after Song

To-day my pensive mood
I'll hide in song after song
I'll expose my soul turning
the thorny wound into a flow…

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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 …

616
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.

535
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…

732
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

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

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…

607
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 …

620
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 …

544
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<…

654
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 …

534
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…

554
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?

548
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

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…

796
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…

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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 …

805
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…

545
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…

668
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…

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