Artist of cosmos wrapped in thy occult shadowThe Inconscient (is absent in SABCL)
Sri Aurobindo
Collected Poems
CWSA.- Volume 2
Index of First Lines
A bare impersonal hush is now my mind
The Word of the Silence
A conscious and eternal Power is here
The Mother of God
A deep enigma is the soul of man
Man the Enigma
A dumb Inconscient drew life’s stumbling maze
Man the Mediator
A face on the cold dire mountain peaks
Shiva
A far sail on the unchangeable monotone...
In Horis Aeternum
A flame-wind ran from the gold of the east
Flame-Wind
A godhead moves us to unrealised things
The Call of the Impossible
A gold moon-raft floats and swings slowly
Moon of Two Hemispheres
A golden evening, when the thoughtful sun
Evening
A life of intensities wide, immune
The Life Heavens
A naked and silver-pointed star
Trance
A noon of Deccan with its tyrant glare
Baji Prabhou
A perfect face amid barbarian faces
Goethe
A strong son of lightning came down...
A strong son of lightning
A tree beside the sandy river-beach
A Tree
A trifling unit in a boundless plan
Man the Thinking Animal
After six hundred years did Fate intend
Lines on Ireland
After unnumbered steps of a hill-stair
The Hill-top Temple
All are deceived, do what the One Power dictates
The One Self
All here is Spirit self-moved eternally
All here is Spirit (is absent in SABCL)
All is abolished but the mute Alone
Nirvana
All is not finished in the unseen decree
Evolution [2]
All my cells thrill swept by a surge of splendour
Descent
All Nature is taught in radiant ways to move
Bliss of Identity
All sounds, all voices have become Thy voice
The Divine Hearing
An irised multitude of hills and seas
The Other Earths
Arise now, tread out the fire
The Death of a God [1]
Arise, tread out the fire
The Death of a God [2] (is absent in SABCL)
Arisen to voiceless unattainable peaks
The Unseen Infinite
Aroused from Matter’s sleep when Nature strove
The Ways of the Spirit [2] (is absent in SABCL)
Artist of cosmos wrapped in thy occult shadow
The Inconscient (is absent in SABCL)
As some bright archangel in vision flies
Thought the Paraclete
At last I find a meaning of soul’s birth
Krishna
At the way’s end when the shore raised up...
The Lost Boat
Awake, awake, O sleeping men of Troy
The Three Cries of Deiphobus
Because Thou art All-beauty and All-bliss
Because Thou art
Because thy flame is spent, shall mine grow less
Because thy flame is spent (is absent in SABCL)
Behold, by Maya’s fantasy of will
The Dwarf Napoleon
Bride of the Fire, clasp me now close
Bride of the Fire
Brilliant, crouching, slouching...
The Tiger and the Deer
Bugles of Light, bugles of Light...
Bugles of Light (is absent in SABCL)
Child of the infant years, Euphrosyne
Euphrosyne
Cool may you find the youngling grass, my herd
Perigone Prologuises
Cry of the ocean’s surges...
Cry of the ocean’s surges (is absent in SABCL)
Dawn in her journey eternal...
Ilion
Day and night begin, you tell me
Seasons
Death wanders through our lives at will...
The Fear of Death
Do you remember, Love, that sunset pale
Love in Sorrow
Each sight is now immortal with Thy bliss
Divine Sight
Flame that invadest my empire of sorrow...
The Inconscient and the Traveller Fire
From the quickened womb of the primal gloom
Light (is absent in SABCL)
“Glory and greatness and the joy of life
The Rakshasas
God to thy greatness
God to thy greatness
Goddess, supreme Mother of Dream...
The Mother of Dreams
Gold-white wings a throb in the vastness...
The Bird of Fire
Hail to the fallen, the fearless...
Hail to the fallen
Hark in the trees the low-voiced nightingale
The Nightingale
He is in me, round me, facing everywhere
Omnipresence
He said, “I am egoless, spiritual, free,”
Self
Hearken, Ganges, hearken...
To the Ganges (is absent in SABCL)
Here in the green of the forest...
Here in the green of the forest (is absent in SABCL)
How hast thou lost, O month of honey...
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
However long Night’s hour, I will not dream
The Hidden Plan
I am a single Self all Nature fills
The Cosmic Spirit
I am filled with the crash of war...
I am filled with the crash of war (is absent in SABCL)
I am greater than the greatness of the seas
Man, the Despot of Contraries
I am held no more by life’s alluring cry
The Greater Plan
I am swallowed in a foam-white sea of bliss
The Bliss of Brahman
I am the bird of God in His blue
The Blue Bird
I cannot equal those most absolute eyes
I cannot equal
I contain the wide world in my soul’s embrace
The Indwelling Universal
I dreamed that in myself the world I saw
A Vision of Science
I dwell in the spirit’s calm nothing can move
The Witness Spirit
I face earth’s happenings with an equal soul
The Divine Worker
I have a doubt, I have a doubt which kills
I have a doubt
I have a hundred lives before me yet
I have a hundred lives
I have become what before Time I was
The Self’s Infinity
I have discovered my deep deathless being
The Guest
I have drunk deep of God’s own liberty
Immortality
I have gathered my dreams in a silver air
A God’s Labour
I have sailed the golden ocean
The Island Sun
I have thrown from me the whirling dance of mind
Liberation [1]
I have wrapped the wide world in my wider self
Cosmic Consciousness
I heard a foghorn shouting at a sheep
Surrealist (is absent in SABCL)
I heard the coockcouck jabbering on the lea
Surrealist Poem [1] (is absent in SABCL)
I housed within my heart the life of things
Life-Unity
I look across the world and no horizon...
The Cosmic Man
I looked for Thee alone, but met my glance
The Iron Dictators
I made an assignation with the Night
The Pilgrim of the Night
I made danger my helper and chose pain...
I made danger my helper (is absent in SABCL)
I passed into a lucent still abode
Evolution [1]
I sat behind the dance of Danger’s hooves
The Godhead
I saw my soul a traveller through Time
The Miracle of Birth
I saw the electric stream on which is run
Discoveries of Science
I shall not die
The Triumph-Song of Trishuncou
I walked beside the waters of a world of light
I walked beside the waters
I walked on the high-wayed Seat of Solomon
Adwaita
If I had wooed thee for thy colour rare
Immortal Love
If now must pause the bullocks’ jingling tune
In the Moonlight
If perfect moments on the peak of things
Moments
If thou wouldst traverse Time with vagrant feet
Epigram
Immense retreats of silence and of gloom
On the Mountains
Immortal, moveless, calm, alone, august
Epiphany
In a flaming as of spaces
In a flaming as of spaces
In a mounting as of sea-tides...
In a mounting as of sea-tides
In a town of gods, housed in a little shrine
The Stone Goddess
In Bagdad by Euphrates, Asia’s river
Khaled of the Sea
In gleam Konarak – Konarak of the Gods
In gleam Konarak (is absent in SABCL)
In god-years yet unmeasured by a man’s thought...
The World Game
In Manipur upon her orient hills
Chitrangada
In occult depths grow Nature’s roots unshown
Science and the Unknowable
In some faint dawn
In some faint dawn
In the blue of the sky, in the green of the forest
Who
In the ending of time, in the sinking of space
In the ending of time (is absent in SABCL)
In the silence of the midnight...
In the silence of the midnight
In the silence of the night-time
Hell and Heaven
In us is the thousandfold Spirit who is one
Lila
In woodlands of the bright and early world
Love and Death
Into the Silence, into the Silence
Ascent [1]. The Silence
Is this the end of all that we have been
The End?
Life, death,– death, life; the words...
Life and Death
Light, endless Light! darkness has room no more
Light
Like a white statue made of lilies
Like a white statue (is absent in SABCL)
Lone on my summits of calm...
Trance of Waiting
Lorsque rien n’existait, l’amour existait
Lorsque rien n’existait (is absent in SABCL)
Love, a moment drop thy hands
Night by the Sea
Love, but my words are vain as air
Karma (is absent in SABCL)
Many boons the new years make us
A Doubt
Me whom the purple mead that Bromius owns
On a Satyr and Sleeping Love (is absent in SABCL)
Moulded of twilight and the vesper star
Epitaph
Mute stands she, lonely on the topmost stair
Despair on the Staircase
My breath runs in a subtle rhythmic stream
Transformation
My life is then a wasted ereme
To a Hero-Worshipper
My life is wasted like a lamp ablaze
My life is wasted
My mind, my soul grow larger than all Space
Liberation [2]
My soul arose at dawn and, listening, heard
Reminiscence
My soul regards its veiled subconscient base
The Inconscient Foundation
My way is over the Moro river
Surrealist Poem [2]. The Crossing of the Moro (is absent in SABCL)
Mystic daughter of Delight
Life
Nala, Nishadha’s king, paced by a stream
The Tale of Nala [1]
Nala, Nishadha’s king, paced by a stream
The Tale of Nala [2] (is absent in SABCL)
Not in annihilation lost, nor given
Transiit, Non Periit
Not soon is God’s delight in us completed
Rebirth
Now I have borne Thy presence and Thy light
Now I have borne
Now lilies blow upon the windy height
A Rose of Women (is absent in SABCL)
Now more and more the Epiphany within
The Inner Sovereign
O Boers, you have dared much and much endured
To the Boers (is absent in SABCL)
O coïl, honied envoy of the spring
O Coïl, Coïl
O desolations vast, O seas of space
Kama
O face that I have loved until no face
O face that I have loved
O heart, my heart, a heavy pain is thine
Radha’s Complaint in Absence (is absent in SABCL)
O immense Light and thou...
Krishna
O joy of gaining all the soul’s desire
The Meditations of Mandavya
O letter dull and cold, how can she read
O letter dull and cold
O Life, thy breath is but a cry to the Light
O Life, thy breath is but a cry
O love, what more shall I, shall Radha speak
Radha’s Appeal (is absent in SABCL)
O pale and guiding light, now star unsphered
Charles Stewart Parnell
O pall of black Night painted with still gold stars
O pall of black Night
O plaintive, murmuring reed, begin thy strain
The Lover’s Complaint
O soul who com’st fire-mantled from the earth
The Fire King and the Messenger
O thou golden image
A Child’s Imagination
O Thou of whom I am the instrument
Surrender
O Will of God that stirrest and the Void
O Will of God
O Word concealed in the upper fire
Musa Spiritus
O worshipper of the formless Infinite
Form
O ye Powers of the Supreme...
O ye Powers
Ocean is there and evening; the slow moan
The Island Grave
Of Ilion’s ashes was thy sceptre made
To the Modern Priam (is absent in SABCL)
Of Spring is her name for whose bud...
The Spring Child
Often, in the slow ages’ wide retreat
In the Battle
Oh, but fair was her face as she lolled...
Oh, but fair was her face
On a dire whirlpool in the hurrying river
The Yogi on the Whirlpool
On the grey street and the lagging...
On the grey street
On the waters of a nameless Infinite
The Infinite Adventure
On the white summit of eternity
Shiva
Once again thou hast climbed, O moon...
Symbol Moon
One day, and all the half-dead is done
One Day
One dreamed and saw a gland write Hamlet...
A Dream of Surreal Science
Out from the Silence, out from the Silence
Ascent [2]. Beyond the Silence
Out of a seeming void and dark-winged sleep
The Inconscient
Out of a still immensity we came
The Infinitesimal Infinite
Outspread a Wave burst, a Force leaped...
Outspread a Wave burst
Pale poems, weak and few, who vainly use
Envoi
Patriots, behold your guerdon. This man found
Hic Jacet
Perfect thy motion ever within me
Perfect thy motion
Poet, who first with skill inspired did teach
Madhusudan Dutt
Pururavus from converse held with Gods
Pururavus
Pururavus from Titan conflict ceased
Urvasie
Pythian he came; repressed beneath his heel
The Lost Deliverer
Rishi who trance-held on the mountains old
The Rishi
Rose, I have loved thy beauty, as I love
Rose, I have loved
Rose of God, vermilion stain...
Rose of God
Rushing from Troy like a cloud on the plains...
An Image
Seer deep-hearted, divine king of the secrecies
Seer deep-hearted
She in her garden, near the high grey wall
A Thing Seen
Silence is all, say the sages
Silence is all
Silence is round me, wideness ineffable
Ocean Oneness
Silver foam in the dim East
Silver foam
Since I have seen your face at the window, sweet
Since I have seen your face
Since Thou hadst all eternity to amuse
Creation
Snow in June may break from Nature
Miracles
So that was why I could not grasp your heart
So that was why (is absent in SABCL)
Sole in the meadows of Thebes Teiresias sat...
Sole in the meadows of Thebes
Someone leaping from the rocks
Revelation
Soul in the Ignorance, wake from its stupor
Soul in the Ignorance
Soul, my soul, reascend over the edge of life
Soul, my soul [1]
Soul, my soul, yet ascend crossing the marge of life
Soul, my soul [2] (is absent in SABCL)
Sounds of the wakening world, the year’s increase
To the Cuckoo
Spirit Supreme
The Vedantin’s Prayer
Stamp out, stamp out the sun from the high blue
A Dialogue (is absent in SABCL)
Still there is something that I lack in thee
Still there is something
Strayed from the roads of Time...
The Descent of Ahana
Suddenly out from the wonderful East...
Suddenly out from the wonderful East (is absent in SABCL)
Sur les grands sommets blancs...
Sur les grands sommets blancs (is absent in SABCL)
Surely I take no more an earthly food
Divine Sense
Sweet is the night, sweet and cool
Songs to Myrtilla
The clouds lain on forlorn spaces of sky...
Soul’s Scene
The day ends lost in a stretch of even
Journey’s End
The electron on which forms and worlds are built
Electron
The grey sea creeps half-visible, half-hushed
The Sea at Night
The mind of a man
One (is absent in SABCL)
The repetition of thy gracious years
To R.
The seven mountains and the seven seas
The Mahatmas
There are two beings in my single self
The Dual Being
There is a brighter ether than this blue
The Inner Fields
There is a godhead of unrealised things
The Silver Call
There is a kingdom of the spirit’s ease
The Kingdom Within
There is a silence greater than any known
Jivanmukta
There is a wisdom like a brooding Sun
The Universal Incarnation
There was an awful awful man
A Ballad of Doom (is absent in SABCL)
These wanderings of the suns, these stars at play
Parabrahman
This body which was once my universe
The Body
This puppet ego the World-Mother made
The Little Ego
This strutting “I” of human self and pride
“I”
Thou art myself born from myself, O child
Thou art myself (is absent in SABCL)
Thou bright choregus of the heavenly dance
Thou bright choregus (is absent in SABCL)
Thou didst mistake, thy spirit’s infant flight
Thou didst mistake
Thou who controllest the wide-spuming Ocean...
Thou who controllest (is absent in SABCL)
Thou who pervadest all the worlds below
God
Thy golden Light came down into my brain
The Golden Light
Thy tears fall fast, O mother, on its bloom
Saraswati with the Lotus
Thy youth is but a noon, of night take heed
Appeal (is absent in SABCL)
To the hill-tops of silence...
To the hill-tops of silence
To weep because a glorious sun has set
To weep because a glorious sun
Torn are the walls and the borders carved...
Torn are the walls
Two measures are there of the cosmic dance
The Cosmic Dance
Under the high and gloomy eastern hills
Uloupie
Vain, they have said, is the anguish of man...
Vain, they have said (is absent in SABCL)
Vast-winged the wind ran, violent...
Vast-winged the wind ran
Vision delightful alone on the hills...
Ahana
Voice of the summits, leap from thy peaks...
Voice of the Summits (is absent in SABCL)
What is this talk of slayer and of slain
What is this talk
What mighty and ineffable desire
The Birth of Sin
What opposites are here! A trivial life
Contrasts
What points ascending Nature to her goal
The Ways of the Spirit [1] (is absent in SABCL)
When in the heart of the valleys and hid...
Kamadeva
When the heart tires and the throb stills recalling
Renewal
Where is the man whom hope nor fear can move
The Just Man (is absent in SABCL)
“Where is the end of your armoured march...
The Children of Wotan
Where Time a sleeping dervish is
The Vigil of Thaliard
Who art thou in the heart comrade of man...
The Witness and the Wheel
Who art thou that camest
Who art thou that camest
Who art thou that roamest
Vision (is absent in SABCL)
Who was it that came to me in a boat...
The Dream Boat
Why do thy lucid eyes survey
Estelle
Wild river in thy cataract far-rumoured...
The River
Winged with dangerous deity
Winged with dangerous deity
With wind and the weather beating round me
Invitation
World’s delight, spring’s sweetness, music’s charm
World’s delight (is absent in SABCL)
Ye weeping poplars by the shelvy slope
Phaethon