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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(Imitated from the Bengali of Chundidas)
O heart, my heart, a heavy pain is thine! What land is that where none doth know Love's cruel name nor any word of sin? My heart, there let us go.
Friend of my soul, who then has called love sweet? Laughing I called from heavenly spheres The sweet love close; he came with flying feet And turned my life to tears.
What highborn girl, exiling virgin pride, Has wooed love to her with a laugh? His fires shall burn her as in harvest-tide The mowers burn the chaff.
O heart, my heart, merry thy sweet youth ran In fields where no love was; thy breath Is anguish, since his cruel reign began. What other cure but death?
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