Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

Part Seven. Pondicherry
Lyrical Poems from Manuscripts, c. 1934 – 1947

The Island Sun

I have sailed the golden ocean

And crossed the silver bar;

I have reached the Sun of knowledge,

The earth-self’s midnight star.

Its fields of flaming vision,

Its mountains of bare might,

Its peaks of fiery rapture,

Its air of absolute light,

Its seas of self-oblivion,

Its vales of Titan rest,

Became my soul’s dominion,

Its Island of the Blest.

Alone with God and silence,

Timeless it lived in Time;

Life was His fugue of music,

Thought was Truth’s ardent rhyme.

The Light was still around me

When I came back to earth

Bringing the Immortal’s knowledge

Into man’s cave of birth.

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.