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COLLECTED POEMS

 

Sri Aurobindo. Collected Poems.- First edition 1972; Fifth impression 1994.-
Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1994.- 631 p.- ISBN 81-7058-016-1

NOTE

This edition includes revised content of the 5-th volume of Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library. Several writings were added: Sonnets of early period (I cannot equal, I have a doubt, My life is wasted, O face that I have loved, O letter dull and cold, Rose, I have loved, Still there is something, Thou didst mistake) Sonnets of 1930-1950 (Creation, Now I have borne). Titles of some writings are different from Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library: Man the Mediator (old title is The Dumb Inconscient), Discoveries of Science (old title is Discoveries of Science I), The Ways of the Spirit (old title is Discoveries of Science II), Science and the Unknowable (old title is Discoveries of Science III), Man the Enigma (old title is The Human Enigma), The Call of the Impossible (old title is Our godhead calls us). This E-representation of the book was made at 09.2007
 

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  I. SHORT POEMS

  SHORT POEMS 1890-1900

Songs to Myrtilla

1890 / 1892

Perfect thy motion

 

Phaethon

1890 / 1892

To a Hero-Worshipper

09-1891

Estelle

1890 / 1892

O Coil, Coil

1890 / 1892

Hic Jacet

1890 / 1892

Lines on Ireland

1896

Charles Stewart Parnell

1891

Night by the Sea

1890 / 1892

A Thing Seen

 

The Lover's Complaint

1890 / 1892

Love in Sorrow

1890 / 1892

The Island Grave

1890 / 1892

Bankim Chandra Chatterji

 

Saraswati with the Lotus

1894

Goethe

1890 / 1892

The Lost Deliverer

1890 / 1892

Madhusudan Dutt

 

Envoi

1890 / 1892

The Spring Child

1900

Since I have seen your face

 

Euphrosyne

 

The Nightingale

 

Song

 

Epigram

 

The Three Cries of Deiphobus

 

Epitaph

 

A Doubt

 

Perigune Prologuises

 

  SHORT POEMS 1895-1908

Invitation

1908 / 1909

Who

1908 / 1909

Reminiscence

 

A Vision of Science

 

Immortal Love

 

To the Sea

 

The Sea at Night

 

Evening

 

Revelation

 

A Tree

 

A Child's Imagination

 

Miracles

 

The Vedantin's Prayer

 

On the Mountains

 

Rebirth

 

Seasons

 

The Triumph-Song of Trishuncou

 

The Fear of Death

 

Life and Death

 

In the Moonlight

 

Parabrahman

 

God

 

  SHORT POEMS 1902-1930

The Mother of Dreams

1908 / 1909

The Birth of Sin

 

Epiphany

1902 / 1909

To R.

 

The Rakshasas

 

Kama

 

Kamadeva

 

The Mahatmas

 

The Meditations of Mandavya

12-04-1913

Hell and Heaven

 

Life

 

  SHORT POEMS 1930-1950

A God's Labour

31-07-1935 / 01-01-1936

Bride of the Fire

11-11-1935

The Blue Bird

11-11-1935

The Mother of God

1945

The Island Sun

03-10-1939 / 13-10-1939

Silence is all

14-01-1946

Is this the end

03-06-1945

Who art thou that camest

22-03-1944

One Day

1938 / 1939

The Dwarf Napoleon

16-10-1939

The Children of Wotan

08-1940

Despair on the Staircase

10-1939

Surrealist

 

  SHORT POEMS — FRAGMENTS

Morcundeya

 

A voice arose

 

I walked beside the waters

25-04-1934

Urvasie

 

The Cosmic Man

index_e.htm25-09-1938

  II. SONNETS

  SONNETS — EARLY PERIOD

To the Cuckoo

 

Transiit, Non Periit

 

O face that I have loved

 

I cannot equal

 

O letter dull and cold

 

My life is wasted

 

Thou didst mistake

 

Rose, I have loved

 

I have a hundred lives

 

Still there is something

 

I have a doubt

 

To weep because a glorious sun

 

What is this talk

 

  SONNETS 1930-1950

Transformation

 

The Other Earths

 

Nirvana

 

Man the Thinking Animal

 

Contrasts

 

The Silver Call

 

Evolution

 

The Call of the Impossible = Our godhead calls us

 

Evolution

 

Man the Mediator = The Dumb Inconscient

 

The Infinitesimal Infinite

 

Discoveries of Science = Discoveries of Science I

 

The Ways of the Spirit = Discoveries of Science II

 

Science and the Unknowable = Discoveries of Science III

 

The Yogi on the Whirlpool

1936

The Kingdom Within

14-03-1936

Now I have borne

02-02-1938

Electron

15-07-1938

The Indwelling Universal

15-07-1938

Bliss of Identity

25-07-1938 / 21-03-1944

The Witness Spirit

26-07-1938 / 21-03-1944

The Hidden Plan

26-07-1938 / 18-03-1944

The Pilgrim of the Night

26-07-1938 / 18-03-1944

Cosmic Consciousness

26-07-1938 / 21-03-1944(?)

Liberation

27-07-1938 / 22-03-1944

The Inconscient

27-07-1938 / 21-03-1944

Life-Unity

08-08-1938 / 22-03-1944

The Golden Light

08-08-1938 / 22-03-1944

The Infinite Adventure

11-09-1939

The Greater Plan

12-09-1939

The Universal Incarnation

13-09-1939

The Godhead

13-09-1939

The Stone Goddess

13-09-1939

The Cosmic Dance

15-09-1939

Krishna

15-09-1939

Shiva

16-09-1939

Man the Enigma = The Human Enigma

17-09-1939

The Word of the Silence

18-09-1939 / 19-09-1939

The Self's Infinity

18-09-1939 / 19-09-1939

The Dual Being

19-09-1939

Lila

20-09-1939

Surrender

20-09-1939

The Divine Worker

20-09-1939

The Guest

21-09-1939

The Inner Sovereign

22-09-1939

Creation = The Conscious Inconscient

24-09-1939

A Dream of Surreal Science

25-09-1939

In the Battle

25-09-1939

The Little Ego

26-09-1939

The Miracle of Birth

27-09-1939

The Bliss of Brahman

29-09-1939

Moments

29-09-1939

The Body

02-10-1939

Liberation

02-10-1939 / 03-10-1939

Light

03-10-1939 / 04-10-1939

The Unseen Infinite

04-10-1939

"I"

15-10-1939

The Cosmic Spirit

15-10-1939

Self

15-10-1939

Omnipresence

17-10-1939

The Inconscient Foundation

18-10-1939

Adwaita

19-10-1939

The Hill-top Temple

21-10-1939

The Divine Hearing

24-10-1939

Because Thou art

25-10-1939

Divine Sight

26-10-1939

Divine Sense

01-11-1939

The Iron Dictators

14-11-1939

Form

16-11-1939

Immortality

08-02-1940

Man the Despot of Contraries

26-07-1940

The One Self

 

The Inner Fields

14-03-1947

  III. LONGER POEMS

The Vigil of Thaliard

08-1891 / 04-1892

Urvasie. Canto I

 

Urvasie. Canto II

 

Urvasie. Canto III

 

Urvasie. Canto IV

 

Love and Death

06-1899 / 07-1899

A Letter of the Author on Love and Death

 

Khaled of the Sea

 

Baji Prabhou

 

The Rishi

 

Chitrangada

 

Uloupie

 

The Tale of Nala

 

  IV. ON QUANTITATIVE METRE

On Quantitative Metre // Collected Poems

 

   The Reason of the Past Failures

 

   Metre and the Three Elements of English Rhythm

 

   A Theory of True Quality

 

   The Problem of the Hexameter

 

  V. ILION

  ILION: An Epic in Quantitative Hexameters

   Book 1. The Book of the Herald

 

   Book 2. The Book of the Statesman

 

   Book 3. The Book of the Assembly

 

   Book 4. The Book of Partings

 

   Book 5. The Book of Achilles

 

   Book 6. The Book of The Chieftains

 

   Book 7. The Book of the Woman

 

   Book 8. The Book of the Gods

 

   Book 9

 

  AHANA: A poem in rhymed quantitative hexameters

Ahana

1915 / (?)

The Descent of Ahana

1910 / 1915

An Answer to a Criticism

24-12-1942

  VI. POEMS IN NEW METRES

Ocean Oneness

1942

Trance of Waiting

 

Flame-Wind

1942

The River

1942

The Dream Boat

1942

The Witness and the Wheel

 

Descent

 

The Lost Boat

 

Renewal

 

Soul's Scene

 

Ascent. The Silence

 

Ascent. Beyond the Silence

 

The Tiger and the Deer

 

Soul in the Ignorance

 

Journey's End

 

The Bird of Fire

15-10-1933

Trance

15-10-1933

Shiva, The Inconscient Creator

06-11-1933

The Life Heavens

15-11-1933

Jivanmukta

13-04-1934

In Horis Aeternum

19-04-1932

Notes

 

Thought the Paraclete

31-12-1934

Moon of Two Hemispheres

 

Rose of God

31-12-1934

Notes

 

Musa Spiritus

31-07-1935

Krishna

 

The World Game

 

Symbol Moon

 

O pall of black Night

 

A strong son of lightning

 

An Image

 

Hail to the Fallen

 

In a mounting as of sea-tides

 

The Death of a God

 

Soul, my soul

 

  FRAGMENTS

In the silence of midnight

 

Seer deep-hearted

 

Death and the Traveller Fire

 

Torn are the walls

 

The Fire-King and the Messenger

 

Silver foam

 

Vast-winged the wind

 

Tiresias

 

Oh ye Powers

 

God to thy greatness

 

  VII. METRICAL EXPERIMENTS (1934-1939)

1. [Winged with dangerous deity]

 

2. [Outspread a Wave burst...]

 

3. [In a flaming as of spaces]

 

4. [O life, thy breath is but a cry to the Light]

 

5. [To the hill-tops of silence from over the infinite sea]

 

6. [Oh, but fair was her face as she lolled...]

 

7. [In the ending of time, in the sinking of space]

 

8. [On the grey street, on the lagging winding waters]

 

9. [In some faint dawn]

 

  INDEXES

Collected Poems: Index of Titles

 

Collected Poems: Index of first lines