Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

SABCL - Volume 5

I. Short Poems
1895-1908

Revelation

Someone leaping from the rocks

Past me ran with wind-blown locks

Like a startled bright surmise

Visible to mortal eyes,–

Just a cheek of frightened rose

That with sudden beauty glows,

Just a footstep like the wind

And a hurried glance behind,

And then nothing,– as a thought

Escapes the mind ere it is caught.

Someone of the heavenly rout

From behind the veil ran out.

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.