Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

SABCL - Volume 5

VI. Poems in New Metres
Fragments

Vast-winged the wind

Vast-winged the wind ran, violent, black-cowled waves¹

O’er-topped with fierce green eyes the deck,

Huge heads upraised.

Death-hunted, wound-weary, groaned like a whipped beast the ship

Shrank, cowered, sobbed, each blow like Fate’s

Despairing felt.

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.

¹ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: the waves

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