Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

SABCL - Volume 5

I. Short Poems
1890-1900

Phaethon

Ye weeping poplars by the shelvy slope

From murmurous lawns down-dropping to the stream

On whom the dusk air like a sombre dream

Broods and a twilight ignorant of hope,

Say what compulsion drear has bid you seam

Your mossy sides with drop on eloquent drop

That in warm rillets from your eyes elope?

Is it for the too patient sure decay

Pale-gilded Autumn, aesthete of the years,

A gorgeous death, a fading glory wears

That thus along the¹ tufted, downy way

Creep² slothfully this ooze of amber tears

And thus with tearful gusts your branches sway

Sighing a requiem to your emerald day?

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.

¹ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: its

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² 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: Creeps

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