Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

Part Two. Baroda
Short Poems from Manuscripts, c. 1900 – 1901

The Nightingale

An Impression

Hark in the trees the low-voiced nightingale

Has slain the silence with a jubilant cry;

How clear in the hushed night, yet voluble

And various as sweet water wavering by,

That murmurs in a channel small

Beneath a low grey wall,

Then sings amid the fitful rye.

O sweet grave Siren of the night,

Astarte’s eremite,

Thou feedest every leaf with solemn glee.

Lo, the night-winds sigh happier, being chid by thee.

Earlier edition of this work: Sri Aurobindo Birth Century Library: Set in 30 volumes.- Volume 5.- Collected Poems.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Asram, 1972.- 625 p.