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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The clouds lain on forlorn spaces of sky, weary and lolling, Watch grey waves of a lost sea wander sad, reckless and rolling, A bare anguish of bleak beaches made mournful with the breath of the Northwind And a huddle of melancholy hills in the distance.
The blank hour in some vast mood of a Soul lonely in Nature On earth's face puts a mask pregnantly carved, cut to misfeature, And man's heart and his stilled mind react hushed in a spiritual passion Imitating the contours of her desolate waiting.
Impassible she waits long for the sun's gold and the azure, The sea's song with its slow happy refrain's plashes of pleasure,— As man's soul in its depths waits the outbreaking of the light and the godhead And the bliss that God felt when he created his image.
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