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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A godhead moves us to unrealised things. Asleep in the wide folds of destiny, A world guarded by Silence' rustling wings Shelters their fine impossibility:
But parting quiver the caerulean gates; Strange splendours look into our dreaming eyes; We bear proud deities and magnificent fates; Faces and hands come near from Paradise.
What shines above, waits darkling here in us: Bliss unattained our future's birthright is, Beauty of our dim souls grows amorous, We are the heirs of infinite widenesses.
The impossible is our mask of things to be, Mortal the door to immortality.
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