Collected Poems - Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Note on the Texts 719
the same time. He did not ask his secretary to make typed copies
of any of the five, and gave titles to only three of them. The other
two (one of which began as a variant of one of the first three) were
found recently among the manuscripts of this group and recognised as
separate poems.
Discoveries of Science. Circa 1934 – 35. Three handwritten manuscripts.
All here is Spirit. No title in the manuscript. Circa 1934 – 35. One
handwritten manuscript. Published here for the first time.
The Ways of the Spirit [1]. Circa 1934 – 35. Four handwritten manuscripts.
The Ways of the Spirit [2]. No title in the manuscript. Circa 1934 – 35.
Three handwritten manuscripts.
Science and the Unknowable. Circa 1934 – 35. Three handwritten
manuscripts.
Sri Aurobindo wrote the next two sonnets in the early part of 1936.
The Yogi on the Whirlpool. 1936. Two handwritten manuscripts, neither
of them dated, but certainly written just before “The Kingdom
Within”.
The Kingdom Within. 14 March 1936. Two handwritten manuscripts.
Sri Aurobindo wrote the next three sonnets in the early part of 1938.
Now I have borne. No title in the manuscript. 2 February 1938. Two
handwritten manuscripts.
Electron. 15 July 1938. Two handwritten manuscripts.
The Indwelling Universal. 15 July 1938. Two handwritten manuscripts.
Sri Aurobindo wrote the next nine sonnets in July and August 1938
and revised them in March 1944.
Bliss of Identity. 25 July 1938, revised 21 March 1944. Two handwritten
manuscripts, the first entitled “Identity”.
The Witness Spirit. 26 July 1938, revised 21 March 1944. Two handwritten
manuscripts.
The Hidden Plan. 26 July 1938, revised 18 and 21 March 1944. Two