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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Still there is something that I lack in thee And yet must find. There is a broad abyss Between possession and true sovereignty Which thou must bridge with a diviner kiss. I questioned all the beauty of other girls Thinking thou hadst it not to give indeed. But not Giannina's breasts nor Pippa's curls Contained it; thou alone canst meet my need. Deniest thou some secret of thy soul To me who claim thee all? Nay, can it be Thy bosom's joys escape from my control? Forbid it Heaven Hell should yawn for thee. Deny it now! Let not sweet love begun End in red blood and awful justice done.
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