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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Arise, tread out the fire, Scatter the ashes of a god through the stars! Forget to hope and aspire. He is dead and his greatness that cumbered the world has vanished like a golden shadow from the ages. The whip of glory, the splendid burden behind us are cast, Earth is free from fire and stress, left to the joy of her smallness, rid of his mighty spirit at last. All that is false and wry and little are freed to follow their nature once more. Close time's brilliant pages! Give back to man's life the old tables, its dull ease, its bowed greyness restore.
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