Savitri
A Legend and a Symbol
← Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

CWSA· Vol. 2· Poem

Book 1. Part One - England and Baroda 1883 – 1898

  1. C. 1Light
  2. C. 2Songs to Myrtilla
  3. C. 3O Co¨ıl, Co¨ıl
  4. C. 4Goethe
  5. C. 5The Lost Deliverer
  6. C. 6Charles Stewart Parnell
  7. C. 7Hic Jacet
  8. C. 8Lines on Ireland
  9. C. 9On a Satyr and Sleeping Love
  10. C. 10A Rose of Women
  11. C. 11Saraswati with the Lotus
  12. C. 12Night by the Sea
  13. C. 13The Lover’s Complaint
  14. C. 14Love in Sorrow
  15. C. 15The Island Grave
  16. C. 16Estelle
  17. C. 17Radha’s Complaint in Absence
  18. C. 18Radha’s Appeal
  19. C. 19Bankim Chandra Chatterji
  20. C. 20Madhusudan Dutt
  21. C. 21To the Cuckoo
  22. C. 22Envoi
  23. C. 23To a Hero-Worshipper
  24. C. 24Phaethon
  25. C. 25The Just Man
  26. C. 26Thou bright choregus
  27. C. 27Like a white statue
  28. C. 28The Vigil of Thaliard

Book 2. Part Two - Baroda Circa 1898 – 1902

  1. C. 1Canto I - Urvasie
  2. C. 2Canto II - Urvasie
  3. C. 3Canto III - Urvasie
  4. C. 4Canto IV - Urvasie
  5. C. 5Love and Death
  6. C. 6A Note on Love and Death
  7. C. 7Khaled of the Sea
  8. C. 8Prologue - Alnuman and the Peri
  9. C. 9Canto I - The Story of Almaimun and the Emir’s Daughter
  10. C. 10Canto I - Uloupie
  11. C. 11O face that I have loved
  12. C. 12I cannot equal
  13. C. 13O letter dull and cold
  14. C. 14My life is wasted
  15. C. 15Because thy flame is spent
  16. C. 16Thou didst mistake
  17. C. 17Rose, I have loved
  18. C. 18I have a hundred lives
  19. C. 19Still there is something
  20. C. 20I have a doubt
  21. C. 21To weep because a glorious sun
  22. C. 22What is this talk
  23. C. 23The Spring Child
  24. C. 24A Doubt
  25. C. 25The Nightingale
  26. C. 26Euphrosyne
  27. C. 27A Thing Seen
  28. C. 28Epitaph
  29. C. 29To the Modern Priam
  30. C. 30Song
  31. C. 31Epigram
  32. C. 32The Three Cries of Deiphobus
  33. C. 33Perigone Prologuises
  34. C. 34Since I have seen your face
  35. C. 35So that was why
  36. C. 36World’s delight

Book 3. Part Three - Baroda and Bengal Circa 1900 – 1909

  1. C. 1Invitation
  2. C. 2Who
  3. C. 3Miracles
  4. C. 4Reminiscence
  5. C. 5A Vision of Science
  6. C. 6Immortal Love
  7. C. 7A Tree
  8. C. 8To the Sea
  9. C. 9Revelation
  10. C. 10Karma
  11. C. 11Appeal
  12. C. 12A Child’s Imagination
  13. C. 13The Sea at Night
  14. C. 14The Vedantin’s Prayer
  15. C. 15Rebirth
  16. C. 16The Triumph-Song of Trishuncou
  17. C. 17Life and Death
  18. C. 18Evening
  19. C. 19Parabrahman
  20. C. 20God
  21. C. 21The Fear of Death
  22. C. 22Seasons
  23. C. 23The Rishi
  24. C. 24In the Moonlight
  25. C. 25To the Boers
  26. C. 26Vision
  27. C. 27To the Ganges
  28. C. 28Suddenly out from the wonderful East
  29. C. 29On the Mountains

Book 4. Part Four - Calcutta and Chandernagore 1907 – 1910

  1. C. 1Satirical Poem Published in 1907
  2. C. 2Reflections of Srinath Paul, Rai Bahadoor, on the Present Discontents
  3. C. 3The Mother of Dreams
  4. C. 4An Image
  5. C. 5The Birth of Sin
  6. C. 6Epiphany
  7. C. 7To R.
  8. C. 8Transiit, Non Periit
  9. C. 9Perfect thy motion
  10. C. 10A Dialogue
  11. C. 11Baji Prabhou - Author’s Note
  12. C. 12Baji Prabhou
  13. C. 13Chitrangada
  14. C. 14The Rakshasas
  15. C. 15Kama
  16. C. 16The Mahatmas

Book 14. Book IX

  1. C. 1Ahana
  2. C. 2The Descent of Ahana - I
  3. C. 3The Descent of Ahana - II
  4. C. 4The Meditations of Mandavya
  5. C. 5Thou who controllest
  6. C. 6Sole in the meadows of Thebes
  7. C. 7O Will of God
  8. C. 8The Tale of Nala [1]
  9. C. 9The Tale of Nala [2]

Book 15. Part Six - Baroda and Pondicherry Circa 1902 – 1936

  1. C. 1Musa Spiritus
  2. C. 2Bride of the Fire
  3. C. 3The Blue Bird
  4. C. 4A God’s Labour
  5. C. 5Hell and Heaven
  6. C. 6Kamadeva
  7. C. 7Life
  8. C. 8One Day The Little More

Book 16. Part Seven - Pondicherry Circa 1927 – 1947

  1. C. 1The Bird of Fire
  2. C. 2Trance
  3. C. 3Shiva
  4. C. 4The Life Heavens
  5. C. 5Jivanmukta
  6. C. 6In Horis Aeternum
  7. C. 7Notes
  8. C. 8Transformation
  9. C. 9Nirvana
  10. C. 10The Other Earths
  11. C. 11Thought the Paraclete
  12. C. 12Moon of Two Hemispheres
  13. C. 13Rose of God
  14. C. 14Note
  15. C. 15Ocean Oneness
  16. C. 16Trance of Waiting
  17. C. 17Flame-Wind
  18. C. 18The River
  19. C. 19Journey’s End
  20. C. 20The Dream Boat
  21. C. 21Soul in the Ignorance
  22. C. 22The Witness and the Wheel
  23. C. 23Descent
  24. C. 24The Lost Boat
  25. C. 25Renewal
  26. C. 26Soul’s Scene
  27. C. 27Ascent (1) The Silence
  28. C. 28Ascent (2) Beyond the Silence
  29. C. 29The Tiger and the Deer
  30. C. 30Man the Enigma
  31. C. 31The Infinitesimal Infinite
  32. C. 32The Cosmic Dance
  33. C. 33Man the Thinking Animal
  34. C. 34Contrasts
  35. C. 35The Silver Call
  36. C. 36Evolution [1]
  37. C. 37The Call of the Impossible
  38. C. 38Evolution [2]
  39. C. 39Man the Mediator
  40. C. 40Discoveries of Science
  41. C. 41All here is Spirit
  42. C. 42The Ways of the Spirit [1]
  43. C. 43The Ways of the Spirit [2]
  44. C. 44Science and the Unknowable
  45. C. 45The Yogi on the Whirlpool
  46. C. 46The Kingdom Within
  47. C. 47Now I have borne
  48. C. 48Electron
  49. C. 49The Indwelling Universal
  50. C. 50Bliss of Identity
  51. C. 51The Witness Spirit
  52. C. 52The Hidden Plan
  53. C. 53The Pilgrim of the Night
  54. C. 54Cosmic Consciousness
  55. C. 55Liberation [1]
  56. C. 56The Inconscient
  57. C. 57Life-Unity
  58. C. 58The Golden Light
  59. C. 59The Infinite Adventure
  60. C. 60The Greater Plan
  61. C. 61The Universal Incarnation
  62. C. 62The Godhead
  63. C. 63The Stone Goddess
  64. C. 64Krishna
  65. C. 65Shiva
  66. C. 66The Word of the Silence
  67. C. 67The Self’s Infinity
  68. C. 68The Dual Being
  69. C. 69Lila
  70. C. 70Surrender
  71. C. 71The Divine Worker
  72. C. 72The Guest
  73. C. 73The Inner Sovereign
  74. C. 74Creation
  75. C. 75A Dream of Surreal Science
  76. C. 76In the Battle
  77. C. 77The Little Ego
  78. C. 78The Miracle of Birth
  79. C. 79The Bliss of Brahman
  80. C. 80Moments
  81. C. 81The Body
  82. C. 82Liberation [2]
  83. C. 83Light
  84. C. 84The Unseen Infinite
  85. C. 85“I”
  86. C. 86The Cosmic Spirit
  87. C. 87Self
  88. C. 88Omnipresence
  89. C. 89The Inconscient Foundation
  90. C. 90Adwaita
  91. C. 91The Hill-top Temple
  92. C. 92The Divine Hearing
  93. C. 93Because Thou art
  94. C. 94Divine Sight
  95. C. 95Divine Sense
  96. C. 96The Iron Dictators
  97. C. 97Form
  98. C. 98Immortality
  99. C. 99Man, the Despot of Contraries
  100. C. 100The One Self
  101. C. 101The Inner Fields
  102. C. 102Symbol Moon
  103. C. 103The World Game
  104. C. 104Who art thou that camest
  105. C. 105One
  106. C. 106In a mounting as of sea-tides
  107. C. 107Krishna
  108. C. 108The Cosmic Man
  109. C. 109The Island Sun
  110. C. 110Despair on the Staircase
  111. C. 111The Dwarf Napoleon
  112. C. 112The Children of Wotan
  113. C. 113The Mother of God
  114. C. 114The End?
  115. C. 115Silence is all
  116. C. 116O pall of black Night
  117. C. 117To the hill-tops of silence
  118. C. 118Oh, but fair was her face
  119. C. 119In the ending of time
  120. C. 120In some faint dawn
  121. C. 121In a flaming as of spaces
  122. C. 122O Life, thy breath is but a cry
  123. C. 123Vast-winged the wind ran
  124. C. 124Winged with dangerous deity
  125. C. 125Outspread a Wave burst
  126. C. 126On the grey street
  127. C. 127Cry of the ocean’s surges
  128. C. 128Nonsense and “Surrealist” Verse
  129. C. 129A Ballad of Doom
  130. C. 130Surrealist
  131. C. 131Surrealist Poems - 1
  132. C. 132Surrealist Poems - 2 The Crossing of the Moro
  133. C. 133Thou art myself
  134. C. 134Vain, they have said
  135. C. 135Pururavus
  136. C. 136The Death of a God [1]
  137. C. 137The Death of a God [2]
  138. C. 138The Inconscient and the Traveller Fire
  139. C. 139I walked beside the waters
  140. C. 140A strong son of lightning
  141. C. 141I made danger my helper
  142. C. 142The Inconscient
  143. C. 143In gleam Konarak
  144. C. 144Bugles of Light
  145. C. 145The Fire King and the Messenger
  146. C. 146God to thy greatness
  147. C. 147Silver foam
  148. C. 148Torn are the walls
  149. C. 149O ye Powers
  150. C. 150Hail to the fallen
  151. C. 151Seer deep-hearted
  152. C. 152Soul, my soul [1]
  153. C. 153Soul, my soul [2]
  154. C. 154I am filled with the crash of war
  155. C. 155In the silence of the midnight
  156. C. 156Here in the green of the forest
  157. C. 157Voice of the Summits

Book 17. Appendix: Poems in Greek and in French

  1. C. 1Lorsque rien n’existait
  2. C. 2Sur les grands sommets blancs
  3. C. 3Note on the Texts

Book 18. Index of Titles

  1. C. 1Index of First Lines