{"id":1467,"date":"2013-07-13T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:35:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:35:00","slug":"34-the-mother-of-dreams-vol-05-collected-poems-volume-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/05-collected-poems-volume-05\/34-the-mother-of-dreams-vol-05-collected-poems-volume-05","title":{"rendered":"-34_The Mother of Dreams.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n

\nSHORT
\nPOEMS<\/p>\n

1902
\n-1930
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n


\nThe
\nMother of Dreams<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n\n\n
 <\/td>\n\n

\n\t\t\t\tGoddess<\/span>
\n\t\t\t\tsupreme, Mother of Dream, by thy ivory doors when thou standest,<\/p>\n

\nWho are they then that come down unto
\nmen in thy visions that troop, <\/span><\/p>\n

\n                                  
\ngroup upon group, down the path of the shadows slanting?
\n<\/span><\/p>\n


\nDream after dream, they flash and they gleam with the flame of the stars<\/span><\/p>\n

                                                                                                still around them;<\/p>\n


\nShadows at thy side in a darkness ride where the wild fires dance, stars glow<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

                                                           
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tand glance and the random meteor glistens;<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tThere<\/span>
\n\t\t\t\tare voices that cry to their kin who reply; voices sweet, at the
\n\t\t\t\theart\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t                                                          
\n\t\t\t\t they beat and ravish the soul as it listens.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n


\nWhat then are these lands and these golden sands and these seas more<\/span><\/p>\n

                                                                         
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tradiant than earth can imagine?<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n


\nWho are those that pace by the purple waves that race to the cliff-bound<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

                           
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tfloor of thy jasper shore under skies in which mystery muses,<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n


\nLapped<\/span>
\nin moonlight not of our night or plunged in sunshine that is not\n<\/p>\n

                                                                                                           
\n\t\t\t\tdiurnal?<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n


\nWho are they<\/span> coming thy Oceans roaming with sails whose strands are not\n<\/p>\n

                                                   
\n\t\t\t\tmade by hands, an unearthly wind 
\nadvances?<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n


\nWhy do they join in a mystic line with those on the sands linking hands in<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

                                                                               
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tstrange and stately dances?<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n


\nThou in the air, with a flame in thy hair, the whirl of thy wonders watching,<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n


\nHoldest the night in thy ancient right, Mother divine, hyacinthine, with a<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

                                                                                
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tgirdle of beauty defended.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n


\nSworded<\/span>
\nwith fire, attracting desire, thy
\ntenebrous kingdom thou keepest,<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n


\nStarry-sweet, with the moon at thy feet, now hidden now seen the clouds<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

                                               
\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

between in the gloom and the drift of  thy tresses.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n


\nOnly to those<\/span> whom thy fancy
\nchose, O thou heart-free, is it given to see<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

                                                                  
\n\t\t\t\tthy witchcraft and feel thy
\ncaresses.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n


\nOpen the gate<\/span> where thy children
\nwait in their world of a beauty undarkened.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n


\nHigh-throned on a cloud, victorious, proud I have espied Maghavan ride<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

                                                           
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\twhen the armies of wind are behind him;<\/p>\n

<\/u>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n


\nFood<\/span>
\nhas been given for my tasting from
\nheaven and fruit of immortal<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

                                                                                                       
\n\t\t\t\tsweetness;<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n


\nI have drunk<\/span> wine of the
\nkingdoms divine and have heard the change of<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

                                 
\n\t\t\t\tmusic strange from a lyre which
\nour
\nhands cannot master;  
\n<\/span><\/p>\n


\n
\nPage-67<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n


\nDoors have swung wide in the chambers of pride where the Gods reside and<\/span><\/p>\n

                                          
\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

 <\/span>the Apsaras dance in their
\ncircles faster and<\/span> faster.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n


\nFor thou art she whom we first can see when we pass the bounds<\/span>
\nof the<\/span><\/p>\n

                                                                                                           
\n\t\t\t\t
\n <\/span>mortal,
\n\t\t\t\tThere at the gates of the heavenly states thou hast planted thy
\n\t\t\t\twand enchanted <\/span><\/p>\n

                                                                    
\n\t\t\t\tover the head of the Yogin<\/span>
\nwaving.<\/span><\/p>\n


\nFrom thee are the dream and the shadows that seem and the fugitive<\/span>
\nlights
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

                                                                   
\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/span>that delude us;<\/span>
\n<\/span>Thine is the shade in which
\nvisions are made; sped by thy hands from
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

                                                                    
\n\t\t\t\tcelestial lands come the souls that rejoice for ever.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nInto thy dream-worlds we pass or look
\nin thy magic glass, then beyond thee<\/span><\/p>\n

\n                                                                   
\nwe climb out of Space and Time to the peak of divine<\/span>
\nendeavour.
\n <\/span>
\n <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Page-68<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

 \n<\/p>\n

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