Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

SABCL - Volume 5

I. Short Poems
1895-1908

A Tree

A tree beside the sandy river-beach

Holds up its topmost boughs

Like fingers towards the skies they cannot reach,

Earth-bound, heaven-amorous.

This is the soul of man. Body and brain

Hungry for earth our heavenly flight detain.

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.