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.
THEME/S
Voice of the summits, leap from thy peaks of ineffable splendour, Wisdom's javelin cast, leonine cry of the Vast. Voice of the summits, arrow of gold from a bow-string of silence! Leap down into my heart, blazing and clangorous dart! Here where I struggle alone unheeded of men and unaided, Here by the darkness down-trod, here in the midnight of God.
I have come down from the heights and the outskirts of Heaven Into the gulfs of God's sleep, into the inconscient Deep. All I had won that the mind can win of the Word and the wordless, Knowledge sun-bright for ever and the spiritual crown of endeavour, Share in the thoughts of the cosmic Self and its orders to Nature, Cup of its nectar of bliss, dreams on the breast of its peace.
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