Sri Aurobindo
Collected Poems
SABCL - Volume 5
Index of First Lines
A bare impersonal hush is now my mind
The Word of the Silence
A conscious and eternal Power is here
The Mother of God
A deep enigma is the soul of man
The Human Enigma
A dumb Inconscient drew life’s stumbling maze
The Dumb Inconscient
A face on the cold dire mountain peaks
Shiva
A far sail on the unchangeable monotone of a slow slumbering sea
In Horis Aeternum
A flame-wind ran from the gold of the east
Flame-Wind
A gold moon-raft floats and swings slowly
Moon of Two Hemispheres
A golden evening, when the thoughtful sun
Evening
A life of intensities wide, immune
The Life Heavens
A naked and silver-pointed star
Trance
A noon of Deccan with its tyrant glare
Baji Prabhou
A perfect face amid barbarian faces
Goethe
A strong son of lightning came down to the earth...
A strong son of lightning
A tree beside the sandy river-beach
A Tree
A trifling unit in a boundless plan
Man, the Thinking Animal
A voice arose that was so sweet and terrible
A voice arose
After six hundred years did Fate intend
Lines on Ireland
After unnumbered steps of a hill-stair
The Hill-Top Temple
All are deceived, do what the One Power dictates
The One Self
All is abolished but the mute Alone
Nirvana
All is not finished in the unseen decree
Evolution
All my cells thrill swept by a surge of splendour
Descent
All Nature is taught in radiant ways to move
Bliss of Identity
All sounds, all voices have become Thy voice
The Divine Hearing
An irised multitude of hills and seas
The Other Earths
Arise now, tread out the fire!
The Death of a God
Arisen to voiceless unattainable peaks
The Unseen Infinite
As some bright archangel in vision flies
Thought the Paraclete
At last I find a meaning of soul’s birth
Krishna
At the way’s end when the shore raised up its dim line...
The Lost Boat
Awake, awake, O sleeping men of Troy
The Three Cries of Deiphobus
Because Thou art All-beauty and All-bliss
Because Thou art
Because Thou hadst all eternity to amuse,
The Conscious Inconscient
Behold, by Maya’s fantasy of will
The Dwarf Napoleon
Bride of the Fire, clasp me now close
Bride of the Fire
Brilliant, crouching, slouching, what crept...
The Tiger and the Deer
Child of the infant years, Euphrosyne
Euphrosyne
Cool may you find the youngling grass, my herd
Perigune Prologuises
Dawn in her journey eternal compelling the labour of mortals
Ilion
Day and night begin, you tell me
Seasons
Death wanders through our lives at will, sweet Death
The Fear of Death
Do you remember, Love, that sunset pale
Love in Sorrow
Each sight is now immortal with Thy bliss
Divine Sight
Flame that invadest my empire of sorrow wordless and sombre
Death and the Traveller Fire
Glory and greatness and the joy of life
The Rakshasas
God to thy greatness
God to thy greatness
Goddess supreme, Mother of Dream, by thy ivory doors when thou standest
The Mother of Dreams
Gold-white wings a-throb in the vastness, the bird of flame went
The Bird of Fire
Hail to the fallen, the fearless! hail to the conquered, the noble
Hail to the Fallen
Hark in the trees the low-voiced nightingale
The Nightingale
He is in me, round me, facing everywhere
Omnipresence
He said, “I am egoless, spiritual, free,”
Self
How hast thou lost, O month of honey and flowers
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
How shall ascending Nature touch her goal
Discoveries of Science II
However long Night’s hour, I will not dream
The Hidden Plan
I am a single Self all Nature fills
The Cosmic Spirit
I am greater than the greatness of the seas
Man, the Despot of Contraries
I am held no more by life’s alluring cry
The Greater Plan
I am swallowed in a foam-white sea of bliss
The Bliss of Brahman
I am the bird of God in His blue
The Blue Bird
I contain the whole world in my soul’s embrace
The Indwelling Universal
I dreamed that in myself the world I saw
A Vision of Science
I dwell in the spirit’s calm nothing can move
The Witness Spirit
I face earth’s happenings with an equal soul
The Divine Worker
I have a hundred lives before me yet
I have a hundred lives
I have become a foam-white
sea of bliss
The Bliss of Brahman
I have become what before Time I was
The Self’s Infinity
I have discovered my deep deathless being
The Guest
I have drunk deep of God’s own liberty
Immortality
I have gathered my dreams in a silver air
A God’s Labour
I have heard a foghorn shouting at a sheep
Surrealist
I have sailed the golden ocean
The Island Sun
I have thrown from me the whirling dance of mind
Liberation
I have wrapped the wide world in my wider self
Cosmic Consciousness
I housed within my heart the life of things
Life-Unity
I look across the world and no horizon walls my gaze
The Cosmic Man
I looked for Thee alone, but met my glance
The Iron Dictators
I made an assignation with the Night
The Pilgrim of the Night
I passed into a lucent still abode
Evolution
I sat behind the dance of Danger’s hooves
The Godhead
I saw my soul a traveller through Time
The Miracle of Birth
I shall not die
The Triumph-Song of Trishuncou
I walked beside the waters of a world of light
I walked beside the waters
I walked on the high-wayed Seat of Solomon
Adwaita
If I had wooed thee for thy colour rare
Immortal Love
If now must pause the bullocks’ jingling tune
In the Moonlight
If perfect moments on the peak of things
Moments
If thou wouldst traverse Time with vagrant feet
Epigram
Immense retreats of silence and of gloom
On the Mountains
In a flaming as of spaces
Metrical Experiments
In a mounting as of sea-tides, in a rippling as of invisible waters
In a mounting as of sea-tides
In a town of gods, housed in a little shrine
The Stone Goddess
In Bagdad by Euphrates, Asia’s river
Khaled of the Sea
In god-years yet unmeasured by a man’s thought...
The World Game
In Manipur upon her orient hills
Chitrangada
In some faint dawn
Metrical Experiments
In the blue of the sky, in the green of the forest
Who
In the ending of time, in the sinking of space
Metrical Experiments
In the silence of midnight, in the light of dawn or noontide
In the silence of midnight
In the silence of the night-time
Hell and Heaven
In us is the thousandfold Spirit who is one
Lila
In woodlands of the bright and early world
Love and Death
Into the Silence, into the Silence
Ascent. The Silence
Is this the end of all that we have been
Is this the end
Life, death,– death, life; the words have led for ages
Life and Death
Light, endless Light! darkness has room no more
Light
Lone on my summits of calm I have brooded with voices around me
Trance of Waiting
Love, a moment drop thy hands
Night by the Sea
Majestic, mild, immortally august
Epiphany
Many boons the new years make us
A Doubt
Moulded of twilight and the vesper star
Epitaph
Mute stands she, lonely on the topmost stair
Despair on the Staircase
My breath runs in a subtle rhythmic stream
Transformation
My life is then a wasted ereme
To a Hero-Worshipper
My mind, my soul grow larger than all Space
Liberation
My soul arose at dawn and, listening, heard
Reminiscence
My soul regards its veiled subconscient base
The Inconscient Foundation
Mystic Miracle, daughter of Delight
Life
Nala, Nishadha’s king, paced by a stream
The Tale of Nala
Not in annihilation lost, nor given
Transiit, non Periit
Not soon is God’s delight in us completed
Rebirth
Now more and more the Epiphany within
The Inner Sovereign
O coïl, honied envoy of the spring
O Coil, Coil
O desolations vast, O seas of space
Kama
O immense Light and thou, O spirit-wide boundless Space
Krishna
O joy of gaining all the soul’s desire
The Meditations of Mandavya
O life, thy breath is but a cry to the Light
Metrical Experiments
O pale and guiding light, now star unsphered
Charles Stewart Parnell
O pall of black Night painted with still gold stars
O pall of black Night
O plaintive, murmuring reed, begin thy strain
The Lover’s Complaint
O soul who com’st fire-mantled from the earth
The Fire-King and the Messenger
O thou golden image
A Child’s Imagination
O Thou of whom I am the instrument
Surrender
O will of God that stirrest and the Void
Morcundeya
O word concealed in the upper fire
Musa Spiritus
O worshipper of the formless Infinite
Form
Ocean is there and evening; the slow moan
The Island Grave
Of Spring is her name for whose bud and blooming
The Spring Child
Often, in the slow ages’ wide retreat
In the Battle
Oh ye Powers of the Supreme and of the Mother, the Divine
Oh ye Powers
Oh, but fair was her face as she lolled
Metrical Experiments
On a dire whirlpool in the hurrying river
The Yogi on the Whirlpool
On the grey street, on the lagging winding waters
Metrical Experiments
On the waters of a nameless Infinite
The Infinite Adventure
On the white summit of eternity
Shiva, The Inconscient Creator
Once again thou hast climbed, O moon, like a white fire...
Symbol Moon
One day, and all the half-dead is done
One Day
One dreamed and saw a gland write Hamlet, drink
A Dream of Surreal Science
Only by electric hordes your world is run?
Discoveries of Science I
Our godhead calls us in unrealised things.
Our godhead calls us
Our science is an abstract cold and brief
Discoveries of Science III
Out from the Silence, out from the Silence
Ascent. Beyond the Silence
Out of a seeming void and dark-winged sleep
The Inconscient
Out of a still Immensity we came
The Infinitesimal Infinite
Outspread a Wave burst...
Metrical Experiments
Pale poems, weak and few, who vainly use
Envoi
Patriots, behold your guerdon. This man found
Hic Jacet
Perfect thy motion ever within me
Perfect thy motion
Poet, who first with skill inspired did teach
Madhusudan Dutt
Pururavus from converse held with Gods
Urvasie
Pururavus from Titan conflict ceased
Urvasie
Pythian he came; repressed beneath his heel
The Lost Deliverer
Rishi who trance-held on the mountains old
The Rishi
Rose of God, vermilion stain on the sapphires of heaven
Rose of God
Rushing from Troy like a cloud on the plains the Trojans thundered
An Image
Seer deep-hearted, divine King of the secrecies
Seer deep-hearted
She in her garden, near the high grey wall
A Thing Seen
Silence is all, say the sages
Silence is all
Silence is round me, wideness ineffable
Ocean Oneness
Silver foam in the dim East
Silver foam
Since I have seen your face at the window, sweet
Since I have seen your face
Snow in June may break from Nature
Miracles
Sole in the meadows of Thebes Tiresias sat by the Dirce
Tiresias
Someone leaping from the rocks
Revelation
Soul in the Ignorance, wake from its stupor
Soul in the Ignorance
Soul, my soul, reascend over the edge of life
Soul, my soul
Sounds of the wakening world, the year’s increase
To the Cuckoo
Spirit Supreme
The Vedantin’s Prayer
Strayed from the roads of Time, far-couched...
The Descent of Ahana
Surely I take no more an earthly food
Divine Sense
Sweet is the night, sweet and cool
Songs to Myrtilla
The clouds lain on forlorn spaces of sky, weary and lolling
Soul’s Scene
The day ends lost in a stretch of even
Journey’s End
The electron on which forms and worlds are built
Electron
The grey sea creeps half-visible, half-hushed
The Sea at Night
The repetition of thy gracious years
To R.
The seven mountains and the seven seas
The Mahatmas
There are two beings in my single self
The Dual Being
There is a brighter ether than this blue
The Inner Fields
There is a godhead of unrealised things
The Silver Call
There is a kingdom of the spirit’s ease
The Kingdom Within
There is a silence greater than any known
Jivanmukta
There is a wisdom like a brooding Sun
The Universal Incarnation
These wanderings of the suns, these stars at play
Parabrahman
This body which was once my universe
The Body
This puppet ego the World-Mother made
The Little Ego
This strutting “I” of human self and pride
“I”
Thou who pervadest all the worlds below
God
Thy golden Light came down into my brain
The Golden Light
Thy tears fall fast, O mother, on its bloom
Saraswati with the Lotus
To the hill-tops of silence from over the infinite sea
Metrical Experiments
To weep because a glorious sun has set
To weep because a glorious sun
Torn are the walls and the borders carved by a miserly Nature
Torn are the walls
Two measures are there of the cosmic dance
The Cosmic Dance
Under the high and gloomy eastern hills
Uloupie
Vast-winged the wind ran, violent, black-cowled waves
Vast-winged the wind
Vision delightful alone on the hills whom the silences cover
Ahana
What is this talk of slayer and of slain
What is this talk
What mighty and ineffable desire
The Birth of Sin
What opposites are here! A trivial life
Contrasts
When in the heart of the valleys and hid by the roses
Kamadeva
When the heart tires and the throb stills recalling
Renewal
Where is the end of your armoured march, O children of Wotan
The Children of Wotan
Where Time a sleeping dervish is
The Vigil of Thaliard
Who art thou in the heart comrade of man who sitst
The Witness and the Wheel
Who art thou that camest
Who art thou that camest
Who was it that came to me in a boat made of dream-fire
The Dream Boat
Why do thy lucid eyes survey
Estelle
Wild river in thy cataract far-murmured and rash rapids to sea hasting
The River
Winged with dangerous deity
Metrical Experiments
With wind and the weather beating round me
Invitation
Ye weeping poplars by the shelvy slope
Phaethon