Savitri
The Collected Works of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother
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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. 23Poems from Manuscripts Circa 1891 – 1898
  24. C. 24To a Hero-Worshipper
  25. C. 25Phaethon
  26. C. 26The Just Man
  27. C. 27Incomplete Poems from Manuscripts Circa 1891 – 1892
  28. C. 28Thou bright choregus
  29. C. 29Like a white statue
  30. C. 30The 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. 7Incomplete Narrative Poems Circa 1899 – 1902
  8. C. 8Khaled of the Sea
  9. C. 9Prologue - Alnuman and the Peri
  10. C. 10Canto I - The Story of Almaimun and the Emir’s Daughter
  11. C. 11Canto I - Uloupie
  12. C. 12Sonnets from Manuscripts Circa 1900 – 1901
  13. C. 13O face that I have loved
  14. C. 14I cannot equal
  15. C. 15O letter dull and cold
  16. C. 16My life is wasted
  17. C. 17Because thy flame is spent
  18. C. 18Thou didst mistake
  19. C. 19Rose, I have loved
  20. C. 20I have a hundred lives
  21. C. 21Still there is something
  22. C. 22I have a doubt
  23. C. 23To weep because a glorious sun
  24. C. 24What is this talk
  25. C. 25Short Poems from Manuscripts Circa 1900 – 1901
  26. C. 26The Spring Child
  27. C. 27A Doubt
  28. C. 28The Nightingale
  29. C. 29Euphrosyne
  30. C. 30A Thing Seen
  31. C. 31Epitaph
  32. C. 32To the Modern Priam
  33. C. 33Song
  34. C. 34Epigram
  35. C. 35The Three Cries of Deiphobus
  36. C. 36Perigone Prologuises
  37. C. 37Since I have seen your face
  38. C. 38So that was why
  39. C. 39World’s delight

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

  1. C. 1Poems from Ahana and Other Poems
  2. C. 2Invitation
  3. C. 3Who
  4. C. 4Miracles
  5. C. 5Reminiscence
  6. C. 6A Vision of Science
  7. C. 7Immortal Love
  8. C. 8A Tree
  9. C. 9To the Sea
  10. C. 10Revelation
  11. C. 11Karma
  12. C. 12Appeal
  13. C. 13A Child’s Imagination
  14. C. 14The Sea at Night
  15. C. 15The Vedantin’s Prayer
  16. C. 16Rebirth
  17. C. 17The Triumph-Song of Trishuncou
  18. C. 18Life and Death
  19. C. 19Evening
  20. C. 20Parabrahman
  21. C. 21God
  22. C. 22The Fear of Death
  23. C. 23Seasons
  24. C. 24The Rishi
  25. C. 25In the Moonlight
  26. C. 26Poems from Manuscripts Circa 1900 – 1906
  27. C. 27To the Boers
  28. C. 28Vision
  29. C. 29To the Ganges
  30. C. 30Suddenly out from the wonderful East
  31. C. 31On 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. 3Short Poems Published in 1909 and 1910
  4. C. 4The Mother of Dreams
  5. C. 5An Image
  6. C. 6The Birth of Sin
  7. C. 7Epiphany
  8. C. 8To R.
  9. C. 9Transiit, Non Periit
  10. C. 10Poems from Manuscripts Circa 1909 – 1910
  11. C. 11Perfect thy motion
  12. C. 12A Dialogue
  13. C. 13Narrative Poems Published in 1910
  14. C. 14Baji Prabhou - Author’s Note
  15. C. 15Baji Prabhou
  16. C. 16Chitrangada
  17. C. 17Poems Written in 1910 and Published in 1920 – 1921
  18. C. 18The Rakshasas
  19. C. 19Kama
  20. C. 20The Mahatmas

Book 5. Part Five - Pondicherry Circa 1910 – 1920

  1. C. 1Two Poems in Quantitative Hexameters

Book 14. Book IX

  1. C. 1Ahana
  2. C. 2Poems from Manuscripts Circa 1912 – 1913
  3. C. 3The Descent of Ahana - I
  4. C. 4The Descent of Ahana - II
  5. C. 5The Meditations of Mandavya
  6. C. 6Incomplete Poems from Manuscripts Circa 1912 – 1920
  7. C. 7Thou who controllest
  8. C. 8Sole in the meadows of Thebes
  9. C. 9O Will of God
  10. C. 10The Tale of Nala [1]
  11. C. 11The 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. 15Poems Published in On Quantitative Metre
  16. C. 16Ocean Oneness
  17. C. 17Trance of Waiting
  18. C. 18Flame-Wind
  19. C. 19The River
  20. C. 20Journey’s End
  21. C. 21The Dream Boat
  22. C. 22Soul in the Ignorance
  23. C. 23The Witness and the Wheel
  24. C. 24Descent
  25. C. 25The Lost Boat
  26. C. 26Renewal
  27. C. 27Soul’s Scene
  28. C. 28Ascent (1) The Silence
  29. C. 29Ascent (2) Beyond the Silence
  30. C. 30The Tiger and the Deer
  31. C. 31Man the Enigma
  32. C. 32The Infinitesimal Infinite
  33. C. 33The Cosmic Dance
  34. C. 34Sonnets from Manuscripts Circa 1934 – 1947
  35. C. 35Man the Thinking Animal
  36. C. 36Contrasts
  37. C. 37The Silver Call
  38. C. 38Evolution [1]
  39. C. 39The Call of the Impossible
  40. C. 40Evolution [2]
  41. C. 41Man the Mediator
  42. C. 42Discoveries of Science
  43. C. 43All here is Spirit
  44. C. 44The Ways of the Spirit [1]
  45. C. 45The Ways of the Spirit [2]
  46. C. 46Science and the Unknowable
  47. C. 47The Yogi on the Whirlpool
  48. C. 48The Kingdom Within
  49. C. 49Now I have borne
  50. C. 50Electron
  51. C. 51The Indwelling Universal
  52. C. 52Bliss of Identity
  53. C. 53The Witness Spirit
  54. C. 54The Hidden Plan
  55. C. 55The Pilgrim of the Night
  56. C. 56Cosmic Consciousness
  57. C. 57Liberation [1]
  58. C. 58The Inconscient
  59. C. 59Life-Unity
  60. C. 60The Golden Light
  61. C. 61The Infinite Adventure
  62. C. 62The Greater Plan
  63. C. 63The Universal Incarnation
  64. C. 64The Godhead
  65. C. 65The Stone Goddess
  66. C. 66Krishna
  67. C. 67Shiva
  68. C. 68The Word of the Silence
  69. C. 69The Self’s Infinity
  70. C. 70The Dual Being
  71. C. 71Lila
  72. C. 72Surrender
  73. C. 73The Divine Worker
  74. C. 74The Guest
  75. C. 75The Inner Sovereign
  76. C. 76Creation
  77. C. 77A Dream of Surreal Science
  78. C. 78In the Battle
  79. C. 79The Little Ego
  80. C. 80The Miracle of Birth
  81. C. 81The Bliss of Brahman
  82. C. 82Moments
  83. C. 83The Body
  84. C. 84Liberation [2]
  85. C. 85Light
  86. C. 86The Unseen Infinite
  87. C. 87“I”
  88. C. 88The Cosmic Spirit
  89. C. 89Self
  90. C. 90Omnipresence
  91. C. 91The Inconscient Foundation
  92. C. 92Adwaita
  93. C. 93The Hill-top Temple
  94. C. 94The Divine Hearing
  95. C. 95Because Thou art
  96. C. 96Divine Sight
  97. C. 97Divine Sense
  98. C. 98The Iron Dictators
  99. C. 99Form
  100. C. 100Immortality
  101. C. 101Man, the Despot of Contraries
  102. C. 102The One Self
  103. C. 103The Inner Fields
  104. C. 104Lyrical Poems from Manuscripts Circa 1934 – 1947
  105. C. 105Symbol Moon
  106. C. 106The World Game
  107. C. 107Who art thou that camest
  108. C. 108One
  109. C. 109In a mounting as of sea-tides
  110. C. 110Krishna
  111. C. 111The Cosmic Man
  112. C. 112The Island Sun
  113. C. 113Despair on the Staircase
  114. C. 114The Dwarf Napoleon
  115. C. 115The Children of Wotan
  116. C. 116The Mother of God
  117. C. 117The End?
  118. C. 118Silence is all
  119. C. 119Poems Written as Metrical Experiments
  120. C. 120O pall of black Night
  121. C. 121To the hill-tops of silence
  122. C. 122Oh, but fair was her face
  123. C. 123In the ending of time
  124. C. 124In some faint dawn
  125. C. 125In a flaming as of spaces
  126. C. 126O Life, thy breath is but a cry
  127. C. 127Vast-winged the wind ran
  128. C. 128Winged with dangerous deity
  129. C. 129Outspread a Wave burst
  130. C. 130On the grey street
  131. C. 131Cry of the ocean’s surges
  132. C. 132Nonsense and “Surrealist” Verse
  133. C. 133A Ballad of Doom
  134. C. 134Surrealist
  135. C. 135Surrealist Poems - 1
  136. C. 136Surrealist Poems - 2 The Crossing of the Moro
  137. C. 137Incomplete Poems from Manuscripts Circa 1927 – 1947
  138. C. 138Thou art myself
  139. C. 139Vain, they have said
  140. C. 140Pururavus
  141. C. 141The Death of a God [1]
  142. C. 142The Death of a God [2]
  143. C. 143The Inconscient and the Traveller Fire
  144. C. 144I walked beside the waters
  145. C. 145A strong son of lightning
  146. C. 146I made danger my helper
  147. C. 147The Inconscient
  148. C. 148In gleam Konarak
  149. C. 149Bugles of Light
  150. C. 150The Fire King and the Messenger
  151. C. 151God to thy greatness
  152. C. 152Silver foam
  153. C. 153Torn are the walls
  154. C. 154O ye Powers
  155. C. 155Hail to the fallen
  156. C. 156Seer deep-hearted
  157. C. 157Soul, my soul [1]
  158. C. 158Soul, my soul [2]
  159. C. 159I am filled with the crash of war
  160. C. 160In the silence of the midnight
  161. C. 161Here in the green of the forest
  162. C. 162Voice of the Summits

Book 17. Appendix: Poems in Greek and in French

  1. C. 1Greek Epigram
  2. C. 2Lorsque rien n’existait
  3. C. 3Sur les grands sommets blancs
  4. C. 4Note on the Texts

Book 18. Index of Titles

  1. C. 1Index of First Lines