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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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Man the Enigma

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A deep enigma is the soul of man.
    His conscious life obeys the Inconscient's rule,
    His need of joy is learned in sorrow's school,
His heart is a chaos and an empyrean.
    His subtle Ignorance borrows Wisdom's plan;
    His mind is the Infinite's sharp and narrow tool.
He wades through mud to reach the Wonderful,
And does what Matter must or Spirit can.

All powers in his living's soil take root
    And claim from him their place and struggling right:
        His ignorant creature mind crawling towards light
Is Nature's fool and Godhead's candidate,
    A demigod and a demon and a brute,
        The slave and the creator of his fate.









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