Indian Poetry

“The sky is clouded; and the wood resembles” a midnight sky, Nanda says, as Radha guides Krishna toward shelter. Come spring, she waits among the blossoms while he dances with other maidens.

In Sir Edwin Arnold’s rendering of Jayadeva’s Gita Govinda, the groves by the Jumna brim with spring: bees hum, flowers open, and every scented breeze seems to stir desire. Radha loves Krishna, yet he gives himself to the dances and laughter of the other cowherd girls. A song from her companion makes the scene ache with what Radha cannot say outright: the sweetness of spring is also the pain of separation, and Krishna’s careless revelry may cost him the love he longs for. Amid all this music and longing, when will he remember Radha?

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