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-28_The Vedantin’s Prayer.htm

The Vedantin’s Prayer                 Spirit Supreme                   Who musest in the silence of the heart, Eternal gleam,   Thou only Art!        Ah,…

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-35_The Birth of Sin.htm

The Birth of Sin           Lucifer, Sirioth                           LUCIFER                         What mighty and ineffable desire             Impels thee, Sirioth? Thy…

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-96_Metrical Experiments.htm

VII METRICAL EXPERIMENTS     Winged with dangerous deity, Passion swift and implacable Arose and, storm-footed In the dim heart of him, Ran, insatiate, conquering,…

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-75_The Tale of Nala.htm

The Tale of Nala     Nala Nishadha’s king, paced by a stream Which ran escaping from solitudes To flow through gardens in a pleasant…

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-30_The Triumph-Song of Trishuncou.htm

The Triumph-Song of Trishuncou     I shall not die.             Although this body, when the spirit tires Of its cramped residence, shall feed the…

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-89_The Descent of Ahana.htm

  The Descent of Ahana* AHANA   Strayed from the roads of Time, far-couched on the void I have slumbered; Centuries passed me unnoticed, millenniums…

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-27_A Child’s Imagination.htm

A Child’s Imagination     O thou golden image,      Miniature of bliss, Speaking sweetly, speaking meetly!      Every word deserves a kiss.   Strange,…

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-02_Post Content.htm

SHORT POEMS   1890 – 1900   The poems dated 1890 – 92 were written by Sri Aurobindo  between the age of eighteen and twenty…

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-38_The Rakshasas.htm

The Rakshasas   (The Rakshasa the violent kinetic Ego, establishes his claim to mastery of the world replacing the animal Soul, – to be followed…

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-70_Khaled of The Sea.htm

KHALED OF THE SEA An Arabic Romance   An early work, conceived in twelve cantos with a Prologue and Epilogue, found unrevised and incomplete.  …

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