Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

Part Two. Baroda
Short Poems from Manuscripts, c. 1900 – 1901

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,

Forbade¹ 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.

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: Forbidding

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