Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

Part Three. Baroda and Bengal, c. 1900 – 1909
Poems from Ahana and Other Poems

Miracles

Snow in June may break from Nature,

Ice through August last,

The random rose may increase stature

In December’s blast;

But this at least can never be,

O thou mortal ecstasy,

That one should live, even in pain,

Visited by thy disdain.

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.