Love
Enough! and cast the trouble from your heart.
Translated by Ananda Coomaraswamy and Arun Sen (1915) · From Bangiya Padabali (trans. 1915)
Sakhī:
Enough! and cast the trouble from your heart.
Be not afraid, go to your lover's side:
Have done with obstinacy, for I tell you
Never can be joy without its pain.
But half a grain of grief, and then a life of gladness
Why are you so averse to this, my girl?
Just for a moment shut your eyes,
As a sick man drinks his draught.
Go, Beauty, go, and play loves game,
Vidyāpati prays for your consent.
Codex Note
First Meetings, XLVII
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MLA
Vidyapati. “Enough! and cast the trouble from your heart.” Translated by Ananda Coomaraswamy and Arun Sen. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/vidyapati/46/.
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Vidyapati. “Enough! and cast the trouble from your heart.” Translated by Ananda Coomaraswamy and Arun Sen. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/vidyapati/46/.
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