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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 Yogi on the Whirlpool

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On a dire whirlpool in the hurrying river,
    A life-stilled statue naked, bronze, severe,
    He kept the posture of a deathless seer
Unshaken by the mad water's leap and shiver.
Thought could not think in him, flesh could not quiver;
    The feet of Time could not adventure here;
    Only some unknown Power nude and austere,
Only a Silence mighty to deliver.

His spirit world-wide and companionless,
    Seated above the torrent of the days
        On the deep eddy that our being forms,
Silent sustained the huge creation's stress,
    Unchanged supporting Nature's rounds and norms,
        Immobile background of the cosmic race.









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