Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

Part Two. Baroda
Sonnets from Manuscripts, c. 1900 – 1901

To weep because a glorious sun

To weep because a glorious sun has set

Which the next morn shall gild the east again,

To mourn that mighty strengths must yield to fate

Which by that fall¹ a double force² attain,

To shrink from pain without whose friendly strife

Joy could not be, to make a terror of death

Who smiling beckons us to farther life

And is a bridge for the persistent breath;

Despair and anguish and the tragic grief

Of dry set eyes or such disastrous tears

As rend the heart though meant for its relief

And all man’s ghastly company of fears

Are born of folly that believes this³ span

Of brittle life can limit immortal man.⁴

Earlier edition of this work: Sri Aurobindo Birth Century Library: Set in 30 volumes.- Volume 5.- Collected Poems.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Asram, 1972.- 625 p.

¹ 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: force

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² 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: strength

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³ 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: the

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⁴ 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: Of life the limit of immortal man.

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