Overhead Poetry
Poems with Sri Aurobindo's Comments
- Editor's Introduction
- Consummation
- First Sight of Girnar
- This Errant Life
- Pool of Lonelinesses
- Madonna Mia
- Ne Plus Ultra
- Prelude
- Invocation to the Fourfold Divine
- Sri Aurobindo
- Through Vesper's Veil
- Agni
- The Sannyasi
- Innermost
- Vita Nuova
- The Triumph of Dante
- Mystic Mother
- Savitri
- Gnosis
- The Fall
- Overself
- Deeps
- Night Hills
- Ananda
- Gods
- Arch-Image
- Rishi
- Silver Grace
- Out of the Unknown
- Yoga
- Maya
- Gloam-Infinites
- Pleroma
- Two Birds
- Each Night
- God-Sculpture
- Evanescence
- Agni Jatavedas
- The Divine Denier
- Green Tiger
- A Diamond is Burning Upward
- Talisman
- Two Moments
- Soul of Song
- Cosmic Rhythms
- Unbirthed
- White Horse
- Orison
- Harmonies
- Descent
- Gulfs of Night
- Disclosure
- Mere of Dream
- A Poet's Stammer
- The Sacred Fire
- Appeal
- Great Mother
- Prayer
- Ojas
- Ascent
- Storm-Light
- No Mortal Breath
- Time-Telescope
- Night
- White Murder
- Moksha
- Love's Triumph
- Apotheosis
- Incarnation
- Night of Trance
- Ape on Fire
- In Terram
- A Metaphysical Poet to his Mistress
- Truth-Vision
- Above All Roses
- Exile
- Pharphar
- Sphere-Music
- Near and Far
- Your Face
- Dragon
- Thank God
- The Hierarchy of Being
- Absolute
- Deluge
- Himalaya
- Sky-Rims
- Mukti
- Nocturne
- The Close of Dante's Divina Commedia
- From Beatrice in Heaven
- God's World
- World-Poet
- Epilogue The Overhead Planes
Rishi
He brought the calm of a gigantic sleep:
Earth's mind—a flicker gathering sudden gold—
Merged with unknowable vistas to come back
A fire whose tongue had tasted paradise.
A plumbless music rolled from his far mouth:
Waves of primeval secrecy broke white
Along the heart's shores, a rumour of deathless love
Afloat like a vast moon upon the deep.
Sri Aurobindo's Comment
"A very fine poem, lines I, 4 are from the Illumined Higher Mind. The second comes very splendidly from the Illumined Mind, the third is Higher Mind at a high level. The fifth comes from the Higher Mind—the sixth, seventh and eighth from the Illumined Mind touched with something from the Overmind Intuition, though the touch is more evident in 6 and 8."
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