Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

SABCL - Volume 5

I. Short Poems
1902-1930

Who art thou that camest

Who art thou that camest

Bearing the occult Name,

Wings of regal darkness

Eyes of an unborn flame?

Like the august uprising

Of a forgotten sun

Out of the caverned midnight

Fire-trails of wonder run.

Captured the heart renouncing

Tautness of passion-worn strings

Allows the wide-wayed sweetness

Of free supernal things.

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.