The Basant songs, sung during the season of spring, are filled with sweetness and charm. They celebrate love, beauty, and tenderness through lyrical and poetic expression.

In these verses, both samyog (union) and viyog (separation) find delicate and moving expression. Toward the end of many Basant songs, the phrase “bhanahi Vidyapati” is often used, even though the songs were not actually penned by the poet