Overhead Poetry
Poems with Sri Aurobindo's Comments
- Editor's Introduction
- Consummation
- First Sight of Girnar
- This Errant Life
- Pool of Lonelinesses
- Madonna Mia
- Ne Plus Ultra
- Prelude
- Invocation to the Fourfold Divine
- Sri Aurobindo
- Through Vesper's Veil
- Agni
- The Sannyasi
- Innermost
- Vita Nuova
- The Triumph of Dante
- Mystic Mother
- Savitri
- Gnosis
- The Fall
- Overself
- Deeps
- Night Hills
- Ananda
- Gods
- Arch-Image
- Rishi
- Silver Grace
- Out of the Unknown
- Yoga
- Maya
- Gloam-Infinites
- Pleroma
- Two Birds
- Each Night
- God-Sculpture
- Evanescence
- Agni Jatavedas
- The Divine Denier
- Green Tiger
- A Diamond is Burning Upward
- Talisman
- Two Moments
- Soul of Song
- Cosmic Rhythms
- Unbirthed
- White Horse
- Orison
- Harmonies
- Descent
- Gulfs of Night
- Disclosure
- Mere of Dream
- A Poet's Stammer
- The Sacred Fire
- Appeal
- Great Mother
- Prayer
- Ojas
- Ascent
- Storm-Light
- No Mortal Breath
- Time-Telescope
- Night
- White Murder
- Moksha
- Love's Triumph
- Apotheosis
- Incarnation
- Night of Trance
- Ape on Fire
- In Terram
- A Metaphysical Poet to his Mistress
- Truth-Vision
- Above All Roses
- Exile
- Pharphar
- Sphere-Music
- Near and Far
- Your Face
- Dragon
- Thank God
- The Hierarchy of Being
- Absolute
- Deluge
- Himalaya
- Sky-Rims
- Mukti
- Nocturne
- The Close of Dante's Divina Commedia
- From Beatrice in Heaven
- God's World
- World-Poet
- Epilogue The Overhead Planes
Descent
A secret of far sky burns suddenly close,
A deep blue wakes to glory from pale blue:
Then large and calm and effortless wings of light
Swoop crimson through the paradisal air!
Talons of eyrie truth—a clutch of gold—
Numb every thought to a shining vacancy
Merged in the immortal spaciousness around
This haloed hawk that preys on time-desire...
My body, wrapt in the vast apocalypse,
Grows king of Nature with the mystic bird
A flaming crown of godhead over life!
Sri Aurobindo's Comment
"It is certainly very original and expresses with great force the spiritual experience. A very fine poem—most of it being in substance from the Illumined Mind (except 2 or 3 lines) but its rhythm belongs to the poetic intelligence, strong and clear-cut but not with the subtle or large inner tones of the overhead music. It is a very luminous and powerful image."
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