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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Out of a still immensity we came. These million universes were to it The poor light-bubbles of a trivial game, A fragile glimmer in the Infinite.
It could not find its soul in all that Vast: It drew itself into a little speck Infinitesimal, ignobly cast Out of earth's mud and slime strangely awake,—
A tiny plasm upon a casual globe In the small system of a dwarflike sun, A little life wearing the flesh for robe, A little mind winged through wide space to run.
It lived, it knew, it saw its self sublime, Deathless, outmeasuring Space, outlasting Time.
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