Collected Poems - Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Poems from Manuscripts 255
Vision
Who art thou that roamest
Over mountains dim
In the haunts of evening,
Sister of the gleam!
Whiter than the jasmines,
Roses dream of thee;
Softly with the violets
How thine eyes agree!
As thy raven tresses
Night is not so black,
From thy moonbright shoulders
Floating dimly back.
Feet upon the hilltops,
Lilies of delight,
With their far-off radiance
Tinge the evening bright.
In the vesper calmness
Lightly like a dove,
With thy careless eyelids
Confident of love,
As of old thou comest
Down the mountains far,
Smiling from what gardens,
Glowing from what star?
Racing from the hilltops
Like a brilliant stream,
Burning in the valleys
Marble-bright of limb,