Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

SABCL - Volume 5

I. Short Poems
1890-1900

Perfect thy motion

Perfect thy motion ever within me,

Master of mind.

Grey of the brain, flash of the lightning,

Brilliant and blind,

These thou linkest, the world to mould,

Writing the thought in a scroll of gold

Violet-lined.

Tablet of brain thou hast made for thy writing,

Master divine.

Calmly thou writest or full of thy grandeur

Flushed as with wine,

Then with a laugh thou erasest the scroll,

Bringing another, like waves that roll

And sink supine.

Later edition of this work: The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo.- Set in 37 volumes.- Volume 2.- Collected Poems.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2009.- 751 p.