Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

Part Two. Baroda
Sonnets from Manuscripts, c. 1900 – 1901

Still there is something

Still there is something that I lack in thee

And yet must find. There is a broad abyss

Between possession and true sovereignty

Which thou must bridge with a diviner kiss.

I questioned all the beauty of other girls

Thinking thou hadst it not to give indeed.

But not Giannina’s breasts nor Pippa’s curls

Contained it; thou alone canst meet my need.

Deniest thou some secret of thy soul

To me who claim thee all? Nay, can it be

Thy bosom’s joys escape from my control?

Forbid it Heaven Hell should yawn for thee.

Deny it now! Let not sweet love begun

End in red blood and awful justice done.

Earlier edition of this work: Sri Aurobindo Birth Century Library: Set in 30 volumes.- Volume 27.- Supplement.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Asram, 1972.- 511 p.