Collected Poems - Sri Aurobindo Ashram

696 Collected Poems
Ye charming were, and modestly and rarely still
Ye must revisit pages that I then shall fill.
Poems from Manuscripts, circa 1891 – 1898
All but one of the pieces in this section and the next are taken from a
notebook Sri Aurobindo used at Cambridge between 1890 and 1892.
To a Hero-Worshipper. September 1891. From the Cambridge notebook.
Phaethon. Circa 1891 – 92. From the Cambridge notebook.
The Just Man. Circa 1891 – 98. This poem forms part of the manuscript
of Songs to Myrtilla but was not included by Sri Aurobindo in
the printed book.
Incomplete Poems from Manuscripts, circa 1891 – 1892
Thou bright choregus. No title in the manuscript. Circa 1891 – 92.
These two stanzas are from the Cambridge notebook. Published here
for the first time.
Like a white statue. No title in the manuscript. Circa 1891 – 92. This
incomplete prose poem is from the Cambridge notebook. In the manuscript,
there is a comma at the end of the last line.
The Vigil of Thaliard. 1891 – 92. Sri Aurobindo wrote this incomplete
ballad in the Cambridge notebook. He dated certain passages of it
August and September 1891 and March and April 1892.
PART TWO: BARODA, CIRCA 1898 – 1902
Complete Narrative Poems
Urvasie. Circa 1898. This poem first appeared in a small book printed
for private circulation by the Vani Vilas Press, Baroda. (A deluxe edition
was printed later by the Caxton Works, Bombay.) In 1942, Sri
Aurobindo informed the editors of Collected Poems and Plays that
Urvasie was printed “sometime before I wrote ‘Love and Death’”,
that is, before 1899. He also indicated that Urvasie was subsequent