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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O ye Powers of the Supreme and of the Mother, the Divine, I have come to you initiate, a bearer of the sign. For I carry the Name in me that nothing can efface. I have breathed in an illimitable spiritual Space And my soul through the unfathomable stillnesses has heard The god-voices of knowledge and the marvels of the Word. It has listened to the secret that was hidden in the night Of the inconscient infinities first when by His might He arose out of the caverns of the darkness self-enwrapped And the nebulae were churned up like to foam-froth and were shaped Till these millions of universes mystical upbuoyed Were outsprinkled as if stardust on the Dragon of the Void. I was there then in the infinitesimal and obscure As a seed soul in the fire seeds of the energies that endure. I have learned now to what purpose I have loitered as His spark In the midnight of earth Matter like a glow-worm in the dark And my spirit was imprisoned in the muteness of a stone, A soul thoughtless and left voiceless and impuissant and alone.
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