Her gentle words she can but stammer

Sakhī:
Her gentle words she can but stammer,
Her shamefast speech will not well out:
To-day I found her most contrary,
Sometimes consenting, sometimes fearful.

At any word of dalliance, she tightly shuts her eyes,
For she has caught a glimpse of the great sea of Love:
At kissing-time she turns her face away,--
The moon has taken the lotus on his lap!

Stricken with terror if her zone be touched, the shining maiden
Knows that Madan's treasury is being rifled.
Her clothes are disarrayed, she hides her bosom
with her arms,--
The jewels are exposed, and yet she knots her garment!

What is Vidyāpati to think, forsooth?
For at the moment of embrace, she flies the bed!