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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Aroused from Matter's sleep when Nature strove Into the half lights of the embodied mind She left not all imprisonment behind But trailed an ever lengthening chain, and the love
Of shadows and half lustres went with her. In timid mood were shaped our instruments; Horizon and surface barriered thought and sense, Forbidden to look too high, too deep to peer.
An algebra of signs, a scheme of sense, A symbol language without depth or wings, A power to handle deftly outward things Are our scant earnings of intelligence.
Yet towards a greater Nature paths she keeps Threading the grandeur of her climbing steeps.
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