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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 Island Grave

Ocean is there and evening; the slow moan
    Of the blue waves that like a shaken robe
Two heard together once, one hears alone.

    Now gliding white and hushed towards our globe
Keen January with cold eyes and clear
    And snowdrops pendent in each frosty lobe

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Ushers the firstborn of the radiant year.
    Haply his feet that grind the breaking mould,
May brush the dead grass on thy secret bier,

    Haply his joyless fingers wan and cold
Caress the ruined masses of thy hair,
    Pale child of winter, dead ere youth was old.

Art thou so desolate in that bitter air
    That even his breath feels warm upon thy face?
Ah till the daffodil is born, forbear,

    And I will meet thee in that lonely place.
Then the grey dawn shall end my hateful days
    And death admit me to the silent ways.









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