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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Thou who controllest the wide-spuming Ocean and settest its paces, Hear me, thou strong and resistless Poseidon, lord of the waters. Dancing thy waves in their revel Titanic, tossing my vessel One to another, laugh from their raucous throats of derision, Dropping it deep in their troughs till it buries its prow in the welter. Comrades dear as the drops of my heart have been left when it rises, Left in thy salt and lonely seas, and the scream of the tempest Chides me that still I live, but I live and I yield not to Hades. Staggering on as one laughed at and buffeted, straining for shelter, Hopes despairingly, so by the pitiless mob of thy billows Seized the ship goes stumbling on and is wounded and blinded, Seeming allowed to run through their ranks, but they mock at the struggle, Seeming allowed to escape, but they mean it not. They are thy minions. They are thy servants, thy nation, heartless and loud and triumphant, God of the waters, ruthless Poseidon.
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