Collected 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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CWSA
- Collected Poems
- Vol. 2
- 2009 Edition
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SABCL
- Collected Poems
- Vol. 5
- 1972 Edition
- Part I: England and Baroda (1883-1898)
- Part II: Baroda (Circa 1898-1902)
- Part III: Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909)
- Part IV: Calcutta and Chandernagore (1907-1910)
- Part V: Pondicherry (Circa 1910-1920)
- Part VI: Baroda and Pondicherry (Circa 1902-1936)
- Part VII: Pondicherry (Circa 1927-1947)
- Note on the Text
- Index of Titles
- Index of First Lines
O Will of God
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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