Sri Aurobindo
Collected Poems
SABCL - Volume 5
I. Short Poems
1895-1908
Life and Death
Life, death,– death, life; the words have led for ages
Our thought and consciousness and firmly seemed
Two opposites; but now long-hidden pages
Are opened, liberating truths undreamed.
Life only is, or death is life disguised,–
Life a short death until by life we are surprised.
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.