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Jibanananda Das

I lived from 1899-1954. I was from India, and am in the Asian category.

My poetry

  • Windy Night (Haoyar Rat)
    Last night was thick with wind, a time of countless stars.
    All night long, a vast wind played within my mosquito net.
    43 lines, 1 comment
  • Sensation (Bodh)
    Into the half light and shadow I go. Within my head
    Not a dream, but some sensation is at work.
    108 lines
  • Before Death (Mrityu-r Agey)
    We who have walked deserted stubble fields on a December evening,
    Who have seen over the field's edge a soft river woman scattering
    55 lines
  • Banalata Sen
    Long I have been a wanderer of this world,
    Many a night,
    40 lines
  • Naked Lonely Hand (Nagna Nirjan Hat)
    Darkness once again thickens throughout the sky:
    This darkness, like light's mysterious sister.
    40 lines
  • 1946-47
    There's a rather indistinct human anxiety all around in the day's light:
    on streets, in alleys, on tram line tracks and sidewalks;
    156 lines
  • A day 8 Years Ago (At bachar ager Ekadin)
    It was heard
    They took him to the morgue.
    91 lines
  • The Hunt (Sikar)
    Dawn:
    Sky, the soft blue of grasshopper's belly.
    39 lines
  • In Camp (Camp-ey)
    Here on the edge of the forest I pitched camp.
    All night long in pleasant southern breezes
    98 lines
  • Cat
    Again and again through the day
    I meet a cat.
    16 lines

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