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Collected Poems

 

CONTENTS

 

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Part One

 

England and Baroda 1883 ­ 1898

 

 

Poem Published in 1883

Light

 

 

Songs to Myrtilla

Songs to Myrtilla

O Coïl, Coïl

Goethe

The Lost Deliverer

Charles Stewart Parnell

Hic Jacet

Lines on Ireland

On a Satyr and Sleeping Love

A Rose of Women

Saraswati with the Lotus

Night by the Sea

The Lover’s Complaint

Love in Sorrow

The Island Grave

Estelle

Radha’s Complaint in Absence

Radha’s Appeal

Bankim Chandra Chatterji

Madhusudan Dutt

To the Cuckoo

Envoi

 

 

Incomplete Poems from Manuscripts, c. 1891 ­ 1892

Thou bright choregus

Like a white statue

The Vigil of Thaliard

 

 

Poems from Manuscripts, c. 1891 ­ 1898

To a Hero-Worshipper

Phaethon

The Just Man

 

Part Two

Baroda, c. 1898 ­ 1902

 

 

Sonnets from Manuscripts, c. 1900 ­ 1901

O face that I have loved

I cannot equal

O letter dull and cold

My life is wasted

Because thy flame is spent

Thou didst mistake

Rose, I have loved

I have a hundred lives

Still there is something

I have a doubt

To weep because a glorious sun

What is this talk

 

 

Short Poems from Manuscripts, c. 1900 ­ 1901

The Spring Child

A Doubt

The Nightingale

Euphrosyne

A Thing Seen

Epitaph

To the Modern Priam

Song

Epigram

The Three Cries of Deiphobus

Perigone Prologuises

Since I have seen your face

So that was why

World’s delight

 

Part Three

 

Baroda and Bengal, c. 1900 ­ 1909

 

Poems from Ahana and Other Poems

Invitation

Who

Miracles

Reminiscence

A Vision of Science

Immortal Love

A Tree

To the Sea

Revelation

Karma

Appeal

A Child’s Imagination

The Sea at Night

The Vedantin’s Prayer

Rebirth

The Triumph-Song of Trishuncou

Life and Death

Evening

Parabrahman

God

The Fear of Death

Seasons

The Rishi

In the Moonlight

 

 

 

 

Poems from Manuscripts, c. 1900 ­ 1906

To the Boers

Vision

To the Ganges

Suddenly out from the wonderful East

On the Mountains

 

Part Four

 

Calcutta and Chandernagore 1907 ­ 1910

 

Satirical Poem Published in 1907

Reflections of Srinath Paul, Rai Bahadoor, on the Present Discontents

 

 

Short Poems Published in 1909 and 1910

The Mother of Dreams

An Image

The Birth of Sin

Epiphany

To R.

Transiit, Non Periit

 

 

Poems from Manuscripts, c. 1909 ­ 1910

Perfect thy motion

A Dialogue

 

 

Narrative Poems Published in 1910

Baji Prabhou

Chitrangada

 

 

Poems Written in 1910 and Published in 1920 ­ 1921

The Rakshasas

Kama

The Mahatmas

 

Part Five

 

Pondicherry, c. 1910 ­ 1920

 

Incomplete Poems from Manuscripts, c. 1912 ­ 1920

Thou who controllest

Sole in the meadows of Thebes

O Will of God

The Tale of Nala [1]

The Tale of Nala [2]

 

Part Six

 

Baroda and Pondicherry, c. 1902 ­ 1936

 

Poems Past and Present

Musa Spiritus

Bride of the Fire

The Blue Bird

A God’s Labour

Hell and Heaven

Kamadeva

Life

One Day

 

Part Seven

 

Pondicherry, c. 1927 ­ 1947

 

Six Poems

The Bird of Fire

Trance

Shiva

The Life Heavens

Jivanmukta

In Horis Aeternum

 

 

Poems

Transformation

Nirvana

The Other Earths

Thought the Paraclete

Moon of Two Hemispheres

Rose of God

 

 

Poems Published in On Quantitative Metre

Ocean Oneness

Trance of Waiting

Flame-Wind

The River

Journey’s End

The Dream Boat

Soul in the Ignorance

The Witness and the Wheel

Descent

The Lost Boat

Renewal

Soul’s Scene

Ascent

The Tiger and the Deer

 

 

Three Sonnets

Man the Enigma

The Infinitesimal Infinite

The Cosmic Dance

 

 

Sonnets from Manuscripts, c. 1934 ­ 1947

Man the Thinking Animal

Contrasts

The Silver Call

Evolution [1]

The Call of the Impossible

Evolution [2]

Man the Mediator

Discoveries of Science

All here is Spirit

The Ways of the Spirit [1]

The Ways of the Spirit [2]

Science and the Unknowable

The Yogi on the Whirlpool

The Kingdom Within

Now I have borne

Electron

The Indwelling Universal

Bliss of Identity

The Witness Spirit

The Hidden Plan

The Pilgrim of the Night

Cosmic Consciousness

Liberation [1]

The Inconscient

Life-Unity

The Golden Light

The Infinite Adventure

The Greater Plan

The Universal Incarnation

The Godhead

The Stone Goddess

Krishna

Shiva

The Word of the Silence

The Self’s Infinity

The Dual Being

Lila

Surrender

The Divine Worker

The Guest

The Inner Sovereign

Creation

A Dream of Surreal Science

In the Battle

The Little Ego

The Miracle of Birth

The Bliss of Brahman

Moments

The Body

Liberation [2]

Light

The Unseen Infinite

“I”

The Cosmic Spirit

Self

Omnipresence

The Inconscient Foundation

Adwaita

The Hill-top Temple

The Divine Hearing

Because Thou art

Divine Sight

Divine Sense

The Iron Dictators

Form

Immortality

Man, the Despot of Contraries

The One Self

The Inner Fields

 

 

Lyrical Poems from Manuscripts, c. 1934 ­ 1947

Symbol Moon

The World Game

Who art thou that camest

One

In a mounting as of sea-tides

Krishna

The Cosmic Man

The Island Sun

Despair on the Staircase

The Dwarf Napoleon

The Children of Wotan

The Mother of God

The End?

Silence is all

 

 

Poems Written as Metrical Experiments

O pall of black Night

To the hill-tops of silence

Oh, but fair was her face

In the ending of time

In some faint dawn

In a flaming as of spaces

O Life, thy breath is but a cry

Vast-winged the wind ran

Winged with dangerous deity

Outspread a Wave burst

On the grey street

Cry of the ocean’s surges

 

 

Nonsense and “Surrealist” Verse

A Ballad of Doom

Surrealist

Surrealist Poems

 

 

Incomplete Poems from Manuscripts, c. 1927 ­ 1947

Thou art myself

Vain, they have said

Pururavus

The Death of a God [1]

The Death of a God [2]

The Inconscient and the Traveller Fire

I walked beside the waters

A strong son of lightning

I made danger my helper

The Inconscient

In gleam Konarak

Bugles of Light

The Fire King and the Messenger

God to thy greatness

Silver foam

Torn are the walls

O ye Powers

Hail to the fallen

Seer deep-hearted

Soul, my soul [1]

Soul, my soul [2]

I am filled with the crash of war

In the silence of the midnight

Here in the green of the forest

Voice of the Summits

 

Appendix

 

Poems in Greek and in French

 

Greek Epigram

Lorsque rien n’existait

Sur les grands sommets blancs

 

Note on the Texts

 

Index of Titles

 

Index of First Lines