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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Sole in the meadows of Thebes Teiresias sat by the Dirce, Blind Teiresias lonely and old. The song of the river Moaned in his ears and the scent of the flowers afflicted his spirit Wandering naked and chill in the winds of the world and its greyness. Silent awhile, then he smote on the ground with the stay of his blindness, Calling "O murmuring waters of Dirce, loved by my childhood, Waters of murmuring Dirce, flowers that were dear to the lover, Then was your perfume a sweetness, then were your voices a carol; Now you are dark to me, scents that hurt; you are dirges, O waters.
We are weary of sorrow, Sated with salt of human tears; and the thronèd oppressor
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Seems not divine to our eyes, but a worm that stings and is happy— Groans of the sad oppressed have no tone for our ears any longer. Death we have taken in horror, the anguish of others afflicts us And with the pangs of an alien heart we are shaken and troubled. Lo, I am torn by a woman's sobs that come up in the midnight.
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