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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What points ascending Nature to her goal? 'Tis not man's lame transcribing intellect With its carved figures rigid and erect But the far subtle vision of his soul.
His instruments have served his weakness well But they must change to tread the paths of Fire That lead through his calm self immeasurable To the last rapture's incandescent spire.
The spirit keeps for him its ample ways, A sense that takes the world into our being, A close illumined touch and intimate seeing, Wide Thought that is a god's ensphering gaze,
A tranquil heart in sympathy with all, A will wide-winging, armed, imperial.
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