COLLECTED POEMS

SRI AUROBINDO

CONTENTS

I. SHORT POEMS 1890-1900

Songs To Myrtilla	1890-92
Perfect Thy Motion
Phaethon	1890-92
To A Hero-Worshipper	September 1891
Estelle	1890-92
O Coil, Coil	1890-92
Hic Jacet	1890-92
Lines On Ireland	1896
Charles Stewart Parnell	1891
Night By The Sea	1890-92
A Thing Seen
The Lover's Complaint	1890-92
Love In Sorrow	1890-92
The Island Grave	1890-92
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Saraswati With The LoTUS	1894
Goethe	1890-92
The Lost Deliverer	1890-92
Madhusudan Dutt
Envoi	1890-92
The Spring Child	1900
Since I Have Seen Your Face
Euphrosyne
The Nightingale
Song
Epigram
The Three Cries of Deiphobus
Epitaph
A Doubt
Perigune Prologuises

Short Poems 1895-1908
Invitation	1908-09 (Alipore Jail)
Who	1908-09
Reminiscence
A Vision Of Science
Immortal Love
To The Sea
The Sea At Night
Evening
Revelation
A Tree
A Child's Imagination
Miracles
The Vedantin's Prayer
On The Mountains
Rebirth
Seasons
The Triumph-Song Of Trishuncou
The Fear of Death
Life And Death
In The Moonlight
Parabrahman
God
Short Poems 1902-1930
The Mother Of Dreams	1908-09
The Birth of Sin
Epiphany
To R.
The Rakshasas
Kama
Kamadeva
The Mahatmas
The Meditations of Mandavya	12-04-1913
Hell And Heaven
Life
Short Poems 1930-1950
A God's Labour	31-7-1935,1-1-1936
Bride Of The Fire	11-11-1935
The Blue Bird	11-11-1935
The Mother Of God	1945
The Island Sun	3/13-10-1939
Silence Is All	14-1-1946
Is This The End	3-6-1945
Who Art Thou That Camest	22-3-1944
One Day	1938-39
The Dwarf Napoleon	16-10-1939
The Children of Wotan	August 1940
Despair on The Staircase	October 1939
Surrealist

Short Poems - Fragments
Morcundeya
A Voice Arose
I Walked Beside The Waters	25-4-1934
Urvasie
The Cosmic Man	25-9-1938

II. SONNETS - EARLY PERIOD
To The Cuckoo	1980-92
TransIit, Non Periit
What Is This Talk
To Weep Because A Glorious Sun
I Have A Hundred Lives

Sonnets 1930-1950

The Kingdom Within	14-3-1936
The Yogi On The Whirlpool	14-3-1936
The Divine Hearing	24-10-1937
Electron	15-7-1938
The Indwelling Universal	15-7-1938
The Witness Spirit	26-7-1938, 21-3-1944
The Pilgrim Of The Night	26-7-1938, 18-8-1944
The Hidden Plan	26-7-1938, 21-3-1944
The Inconscient	27-7-1938, 21-3-1944
Liberation	27-7-1938, 22-3-1944
Cosmic Consciousness	28-7-1938
The Golden Light	8-8-1938, 22-3-1944
Life-Unity	8-8-1938, 22-3-1944
Bliss Of Identity	25-7-1938, 21-3-1944
The Iron Dictators	14-11-1938
Form	16-11-1938
The Infinite Adventure	11-9-1939
The Greater Plan	12-9-1939
The Universal Incarnation	13-9-1939
The Godhead	13-9-1939
The Stone Goddess	13-9-1939
Krishna	15-9-1939
The Cosmic Dance	15-9-1939
Shiva	16-9-1939
The Word Of The Silence	18/19-9/1939
The Dual Being	19-9-1939
The Self's Infinity	18/19-9-1939
Lila	20-9-1939
Surrender	20-9-1939
The Divine Worker	20-9-1939
The Guest	21-9-1939
The Inner Sovereign	22-9-1939
The Conscious Inconscient	24/28-9-1939
A Dream Of Surreal Science	25-9-1939
In The Battle	25-9-1939
The Little Ego	26/29-9-1939
The Miracle Of Birth	27/29-9-1939
Moments	29-9-1939, 2-10-1939
The Bliss of Brahman	29-9-1939, 21-10-1939
The Human Enigma	September 1939
The Body	2-10-1939
Liberation	2/3-10-1939
Light	3/4-10-1939
The Unseen Infinite	October 1939
Self	15-10-1939
The Cosmic Spirit	15-10-1939, 5-11-1939
"I"	15-10-1939, 3-11-1939
Omnipresence	17-10-1939
The Inconscient Foundation	18-10-1939, 7-2-1940
Adwaita	19-10-1939
The Hill-Top Temple	21-10-1939
Because Thou Art	25-10-1939
Divine Sight	26-10-1939
Divine Sense	1-11-1939
Immortality	1939 (?) 8-2-1940
Man, The Despot Of Contraries	29-7-1940 (?)
Evolution	1938, 22-3-1944
The Silver Call	1938, 23-3-1944
The Inner Fields	14-3-1947 (?)
Sonnets-Undated
Transformation
Nirvana
The Other Earths
Contrasts
Man, The Thinking Animal
The Dumb Inconscient
The Infinitesimal Infinite
Evolution
The One Self
Our Godhead Calls Us
Discoveries Of Science I
Discoveries Of Science II
Discoveries Of Science III
III. LONGER POEMS
The Vigil Of Thaliard	August 1891- April 1892
Urvasie
Love And Death	June,July 1899
Khaled Of The Sea
Baji Prabhou
The Rishi
ChitraNganda
Uloupie
The Tale Of Nala

IV. ON QUANTITATIVE METRE

V. ILION

ILION
Ahana
The Descent of Ahana	1910-15
An Answer to a Criticism	24-12-1942

VI. POEMS IN NEW METRES

Ocean Oneness	1942
Trance of Waiting
Flame-Wind	1942
The River	1942
The Dream Boat	1942
The Witness and the Wheel
Descent
The Lost Boat
Renewal
Soul's Scene
Ascent : 1. The Silence 2. Beyond the Silence
The Tiger and the Deer
Soul in the Ignorance
Journey'S End
The Bird of Fire	15-10-1933
Trance	15-10-1933
Shiva, The Inconscient Creator	06-11-1933
The Life Heavens	15-11-1933
Jivanmukta	13-04-1934
In Horis Aeternum	19-04-1932
Notes
Thought the Paraclete	31-12-1934
Moon of Two Hemispheres
Rose of God	31-12-1934
Notes
Musa Spiritus	31-07-1935
Krishna
The World Game
Symbol Moon
O Pall of Black Night
A Strong Son of Lightning
An Image
Hail to the Fallen
In a Mounting as of Sea-Tides
The Death of a God
Soul, My Soul

Fragments

In the Silence of Midnight

Seer Deep-Hearted

Death and the Traveller Fire

Torn are the Walls

The Fire-King and the Messenger

VII. METRICAL EXPERIMENTS

1934-1939

INDEX OF FIRST LINES

Bibliographical Note

O Coil, Coil

O coil, honied envoy of the spring,
Cease thy too happy voice, grief's record, cease:

For I recall that day of vernal trees,
The soft asoca’s bloom, the laden winds
And green felicity of leaves, the hush,
The sense of Nature living in the woods.
Only the river rippled, only hummed
The languid murmuring bee, far-borne and slow,

Emparadised in odours, only used
The ringdove his divine heart-moving speech;

But sweetest to my pleased and singing heart

Thy voice, O coil, in the peepel tree.

O me! for pleasure turned to bitterest tears!

O me! for the swift joy, too great to live,

That only bloomed one hour! O wondrous day,

That crowned the bliss of those delicious years.

The vernal radiance of my lover’s lips
Was shut like a red rose upon my mouth,
His voice was richer than the murmuring leaves,

His love around me than the summer air.
Five hours entangled in the coil’s cry
Lay my beloved twixt my happy breasts.
O voice of tears! O sweetness uttering death!

O lost ere yet that happy cry was still!

O tireless voice of spring! Again I lie
In odorous gloom of trees; unseen and near

The windlark gurgles in the golden leaves,

The woodworm spins in shrillness on the bough:

Thou by the waters wailing to thy love;

O chocrobacque! have comfort, since to thee

The dawn brings sweetest recompense of tears

And she thou lovest hears thy pain . But I

Am desolate in the heart of fruitful months,

Am widowed in the sight of happy things,

Uttering my moan to the unhousèd winds,
O coil, coil, to the winds and thee.

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