Overhead Poetry

Poems with Sri Aurobindo's Comments

  On Poetry


Absolute

Lustre whose vanishing point we call the sun—

Joy whose one drop drowns seas of all desire—

Life rendering time's heart a hollow hush—

Potence of poise unplumbed by infinite space!


Not unto you I strain, O miracled boons,

But that most inward marvel, the sheer Self

Who bears your beauty; and, devoid of you,

His dark unknown would yet fulfil my love.


Sri Aurobindo's Comment

"No, they are not stiff: the expression is successful and the rhythm harmonious. The first three lines are magnificent."


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