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-20_Poems from Manuscripts Circa 1900 – 1906.htm

  Poems from Manuscripts Circa 1900 ­ 1906     To the Boers   (Written during the progress of the Boer War.)   O Boers,…

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-54_Incomplete Poems from Manuscripts Circa 1927 – 1947.html

  Incomplete Poems from Manuscripts Circa 1927 ­ 1947     Thou art myself   Thou art myself born from myself, O child. O thou…

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-02_Songs to Myrtilla.html

  Songs to Myrtilla   Songs to Myrtilla   GLAUCUS Sweet is the night, sweet and cool As to parched lips a running pool; Sweet…

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-15_Short Poems from Manuscripts Circa 1900 – 1901.htm

  Short Poems from Manuscripts Circa 1900 ­ 1901   The Spring Child   (On Basanti’s birthday  —  Jyestha 1900)   Of Spring is her…

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-28_Two Poems in Quantitative Hexameters – CONTD.html

  Ilion Bk-I   What say the vaunters of Greece to the virgin Penthesilea?” High was the Argive’s answer confronting the mighty in Troya. “Princes…

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-57_Note on the Texts – Contd.htm

PART SEVEN: PONDICHERRY, CIRCA 1927 ­ 1947   Sri Aurobindo published three short volumes of poetry, and a volume on poetics that included poems as…

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-14_Sonnets from Manuscripts Circa 1900 – 1901.html

    Sonnets from Manuscripts Circa 1900 ­ 1901     O face that I have loved   O face that I have loved until…

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-18_Poems from Ahana and Other Poems – Contd.htm

  The Rishi   King Manu in the former ages of the world, when the Arctic continent still subsisted, seeks knowledge from the Rishi of…

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-03_Songs to Myrtilla – Contd.htm

  Night by the Sea   Love, a moment drop thy hands; Night within my soul expands. Veil thy beauties milk-rose-fair In that dark and…

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-19_Poems from Ahana and Other Poems – Contd.htm

  Rishi   Yes, He creates the worlds and heaven above With a single word; And these things being Himself are real, yet Are they…

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