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.
THEME/S
O Will of God that stirrest and the Void Is peopled, men have called thee force, upbuoyed Upon whose wings the stars borne round and round Need not one hour of rest; light, form and sound Are masks of thy eternal movement. We See what thou choosest, but 'tis thou we see.
I Morcundeya, whom the worlds release, The Seer,—but it is God alone that sees!— Soar up above the bonds that hold below Man to his littleness, lost in the show Perennial which the senses round him build; I find them out and am no more beguiled. But ere I rise, ere I become the vast And luminous Infinite and from the past And future utterly released forget These beings who themselves their bonds create, Once I will speak and what I see declare. The rest is God. There's silence everywhere.
My eyes within were opened and I saw.
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