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Collected Poems Vol. 2 of CWSA 751 pages 2009 Edition
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All poems in English including sonnets, lyrical poems, narrative poems, and metrical experiments in various forms.

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Sri Aurobindo

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.

The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo (CWSA) Collected Poems Vol. 2 751 pages 2009 Edition
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The Iron Dictators

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I looked for Thee alone, but met my glance
    The iron dreadful Four who rule our breath,
Masters of falsehood, Kings of ignorance,
    High sovereign Lords of suffering and death.

Whence came these formidable autarchies,
    From what inconscient blind Infinity,—
Cold propagandists of a million lies,
    Dictators of a world of agony?

Or was it Thou who bor'st the fourfold mask?
    Enveloping Thy timeless heart in Time,
Thou hast bound the spirit to its cosmic task,
    To find Thee veiled in this tremendous mime.

Thou, only Thou, canst raise the invincible siege,
O Light, O deathless Joy, O rapturous Peace!

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