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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Since I have seen your face at the window, sweet Love, you have thrown a spell on my heart, on my feet. My heart to your face, my feet to your window still Bear me by force as if by an alien will.
O witch of beauty, O Circe with innocent eyes, You have suddenly caught me fast in a net of sighs. When I look at the sunlight, I see your laughing face; When I purchase a flower, it is you in your radiant grace.
I have tried to save my soul alive from your snare, I will strive no more; let it flutter and perish there. I too will seize your body alive, O my dove, And teach you all the torture and sweetness of love.
When you looked from the window out on the trampling city, Did you think to take my heart and pay me with pity? But you looked on one who has ever mocked at sin And gambled with life to lose her all or win.
I will pluck you forth like a fluttering bird from her nest. You shall lie on Love's strong knees, in his white warm breast, Afraid, with delighted lids that will not close. You shall grow white one moment, the next a rose.
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