Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

SABCL - Volume 5

I. Short Poems
1895-1908

Reminiscence

My soul arose at dawn and, listening, heard

One voice abroad, a solitary bird,

A song not master of its note, a cry

That persevered into eternity.

My soul leaned out into the dawn to hear

In the world’s solitude its winged compeer

And, hearkening what the Angel had to say,

Saw lustre in midnight and a secret day

Was opened to it. It beheld the stars

Born from a thought and knew how being prepares.

Then I remembered how I woke from sleep

And made the skies, built earth, formed Ocean deep.

Later edition of this work: The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo.- Set in 37 volumes.- Volume 2.- Collected Poems.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2009.- 751 p.