Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

Part Seven. Pondicherry, c. 1927 – 1947
Poems Written as Metrical Experiments

Vast-winged the wind ran

Vast-winged the wind ran, violent, black-cowled the waves¹

O’er-topped with fierce green eyes the deck,

Huge heads upraised.

Death-hunted, wound-weary, groaned like a whipped beast the ship,

Shrank, cowered, sobbed, each blow like Fate’s

Despairing felt.

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: waves

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