Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

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

Cry of the ocean’s surges

Cry of the ocean’s surges, the long hexameter rolling

Covers my spirit as tides roll over rapturous shores.

Foam on its tops¹ the pentameter curls to its cadenced closing,

Two high waves, then a hush swoons on the ear in its fall.

Earlier edition of this work: Archives and Research: A biannual journal.- Volume 1, No2 (1977, December)

¹ head (the variant is mentioned in A&R. 1977, No 2)

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