 Chaudhuri's second collection of verses, "Padacharan", which he dedicated to poet Satyendranath Dutta, was published in 1919.These poems were written between 1911 and 1916 and according to Chaudhuri, "Presumptuous though it may appear for a prose writer to intrude into poetic field, I have ventured nonetheless in the firm belief that, if anything, my poems have rhyme and, may I add, reason as well.