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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I have a doubt, I have a doubt which kills. Tell me, O torturing beauty, O divine Witchcraft, O soul escaped from heaven's hills Yet fed upon strange food of utter sin. Why dost thou torture me? Hast thou no fear? My love was ever like my hate a sword To search the heart and kill however dear The joy that would not own me for its lord. Yet must I still believe that thou art true If thou wilt say it and smile. Knowst thou not then I have purchased with my passion all of you And wilt thou keep one nook for other men? Deny it now! Let not sweet love begun End in red blood and awful justice done.
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