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Collected Poems Vol. 2 of CWSA 751 pages 2009 Edition
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All poems in English including sonnets, lyrical poems, narrative poems, and metrical experiments in various forms.

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Sri Aurobindo

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.

The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo (CWSA) Collected Poems Vol. 2 751 pages 2009 Edition
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This strutting "I" of human self and pride
    Is a puppet built by Nature for her use,
And dances as her strong compulsions bid,
    Forcefully feeble, brilliantly obtuse.

Our thinking is her leap of fluttering mind,
    We hear and see by her constructed sense:
Our force is hers; her colours have combined
    Our fly-upon-the-wheel magnificence.

He sits within who turns on her machine
    These beings, portions of his mystery,
Many dwarf beams of his great calm sunshine,
    A reflex of his sole infinity.

One mighty Self of cosmic act and thought
Employs this figure of a unit nought.









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