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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My life is wasted like a lamp ablaze Within a solitary house unused, My life is wasted and by Love men praise For sweet and kind. How often have I mused What lovely thing were love and much repined At my cold bosom moved not by that flame. 'Tis kindled; lo, my dreadful being twined Round one whom to myself I dare not name. I cannot quench the fire I did not light And he that lit it will not; I cannot even Drive out the guest I never did invite; Although the soul he dwells with loses heaven. I burn and know not why; I sink to hell Fruitlessly and am forbidden to rebel.
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