Ocean Oneness

A poem by Sri Aurobindo

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Alcaics. Modulations are allowed, trochee or iamb in the first foot or a long monosyllable; an occasional anapaest in place of an iamb is permitted; an antibacchius can replace a dactyl.

The Future Poetry > Ocean Oneness

 poem (in quantitative metre)  1942  Pub: 'On Quantitative Metre (1942)'

Ocean Oneness

Silence is round me, wideness ineffable;
White birds on the ocean diving and wandering;
    A soundless sea on a voiceless heaven,
        Azure on azure, is mutely gazing.

Identified with silence and boundlessness
My spirit widens clasping the universe
    Till all that seemed becomes the Real,
        One in a mighty and single vastness.

Someone broods there nameless and bodiless,
Conscious and lonely, deathless and infinite,
    And, sole in a still eternal rapture,
        Gathers all things to his heart for ever.



Part VII : Pondicherry (Circa 1927-1947) > Poems Published in On Quantitative Metre   



NOTES FROM EDITOR

  1. Two handwritten manuscripts, both entitled “Brahman”, precede the On Quantitative Metre revision work.




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