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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Often, in the slow ages' wide retreat On Life's long bridge through Time's enormous sea, I have accepted death and borne defeat If by my fall some gain were clutched for Thee.
To this world's inconscient Power Thou hast given the right To oppose the shining passage of my soul: She levies on each step the tax of Night. Doom, her unjust accountant, keeps the roll.
Around my way the Titan forces press; This earth is theirs, they hold the days in fee, I am full of wounds and the fight merciless: Is it not yet Thy hour of victory?
Even as Thou wilt! What still to Fate Thou owest, O Ancient of the worlds, Thou knowest, Thou knowest.
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