Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

SABCL - Volume 5

I. Short Poems
1890-1900

A Thing Seen

She in her garden, near the high grey wall,

Sleeping; a silver-bodied birch-tree tall

That held its garments o’er her wide and green

Building a parapet of shade between,

Forbidding¹ the amorous sun to look on her.

No fold of gracious raiment was astir.

The wind walked softly; silent moved a cloud

Listening; of all the tree no leaf was loud,

But guarded a divine expectant hush

Thrilled by the silence of a hidden thrush.

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: Forbade

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