Sri Aurobindo
Collected Poems
CWSA.- Volume 2
Part Two. Baroda
Sonnets from Manuscripts, c. 1900 –
1901
I have a doubt
I have a doubt, I have a doubt which kills.
Tell me, O torturing beauty, O divine
Witchcraft, O soul escaped from heaven’s hills
Yet fed upon strange food of utter sin.
Why dost thou torture me? Hast thou no fear?
My love was ever like my hate a sword
To search the heart and kill however dear
The joy that would not own me for its lord.
Yet must I still believe that thou art true
If thou wilt say it and smile. Knowst1 thou not then
I have purchased with my passion all of you
And wilt thou keep one2 nook for other men?
Deny it now! Let not sweet love begun
End in red blood and awful justice done.
Earlier edition of this work: Sri Aurobindo Birth Century Library: Set in 30 volumes.- Volume 27.- Supplement.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Asram, 1972.- 511 p.
1 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.27: knowest
2 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.27: a