Collected 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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CWSA
- Collected Poems
- Vol. 2
- 2009 Edition
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SABCL
- Collected Poems
- Vol. 5
- 1972 Edition
- Part I: England and Baroda (1883-1898)
- Part II: Baroda (Circa 1898-1902)
- Part III: Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909)
- Part IV: Calcutta and Chandernagore (1907-1910)
- Part V: Pondicherry (Circa 1910-1920)
- Part VI: Baroda and Pondicherry (Circa 1902-1936)
- Part VII: Pondicherry (Circa 1927-1947)
- Note on the Text
- Index of Titles
- Index of First Lines
The Ways of the Spirit - II
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.
