All poems in English including sonnets, lyrical poems, narrative poems, and metrical experiments in various forms.
Poems
This volume consists of all poems in English including sonnets, lyrical poems, narrative poems, and metrical experiments in various forms. All such poems published by Sri Aurobindo during his lifetime are included here, as well as poems found among his manuscripts after his passing. Sri Aurobindo worked on these poems over the course of seven decades. The first one was published in 1883 when he was ten; a number of poems were written or revised more than sixty years later, in the late 1940s.
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Here in the green of the forest, lost in the stillness of Nature Long like lovers together alone with our hearts we had wandered, Hands linked, thoughts linked, listening mute to the voices of Silence, Light of the spaces, sovereign beauty, comrade of rapture. Golden the tresses that fell on her shoulders, a mantle of sunlight, Golden the thoughts came cast from her lips like jewels of wonder, Golden the smile in her heart and her radiant ripple of laughter. First in the silence we knew each other; the eyes were the gateways Opening soul into soul and spirit was bare to the spirit. Speech only covers the mind and the heart when it strives to reveal them!
Silence, the wizard interpreter, drew us closer to oneness, First in the silence we felt our heart-throbs beating together.
As in the body a man and a woman marry and mingle, Hearts locked, limbs locked, twisted to one by the serpent of passion, So our spirits were locked in each other, hurled into oneness, Hurtled and hurled on a rapid and violent ocean of rapture.
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