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Urvasie 75 Hurting thyself with good, and lose thy life To have the life of all the solar world, Draw infinite gain out of more infinite loss, And, for the lowest, endless fame. Today Retire nor pluck the slowly-ripening fates; Since who anticipates the patient Gods, Finds his crown ashes and his empire grief. So choose blind Titans in their violent souls Unseeing, forfeiting the beautiful world For momentary splendours.” She was silent, And he replied no word, but gathering His reins swept from the golden group. His car Through those mute Himalayan doors of earth And all that silent life before our life Solitary and great and merciless, Went groaning down the wind. He, the sole living, Over the dead deep-plunging precipices Passed bright and small in a wide dazzling world Illimitable, where eye flags and ear Listening feels inhuman loneliness. He tended towards Gungotri’s solemn peaks And savage glaciers and the caverns pure Whence Ganges leaps, our mother, virgin-cold. But ere he plunged into the human vales And kindlier grandeurs, King Pururavus Looked back upon a gust of his great heart, And saw her. On a separate peak, divine, In blowing raiment and a glory of hair She stood and watched him go with serious eyes And a soft wonder in them and a light. One hand was in her streaming folds, one shaded Her eyes as if the vision that she saw Were brighter even than deathless eyes endure. Over her shoulder pressed a laughing crowd Of luminous faces. And Pururavus Staggered as smitten, and shaking wide his reins Rushed like a star into the infinite air;
76 Baroda, c. 1898 – 1902 So curving downwards on precipitate wheels, His spirit all a storm, came with the wind Far-sounding into Ila’s peaceful town.
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CONTENTS Part One England and Barod
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CONTENTS A Thing Seen 187 Epitaph 1
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Part Five Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 19
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CONTENTS The Silver Call 594 Evolut
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CONTENTS Krishna 637 The Cosmic Man
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Sri Aurobindo in 1950
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Poem Published in 1883
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6 England and Baroda, 1883 - 1898 E
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GLAUCUS Songs to Myrtilla Sweet is
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Songs to Myrtilla 11 A green retrea
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Songs to Myrtilla 13 And praise her
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Songs to Myrtilla 15 Lovelier girl
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Songs to Myrtilla 17 Charles Stewar
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Songs to Myrtilla 19 Thy vehement n
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Songs to Myrtilla 21 So falls it ev
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Songs to Myrtilla 23 Night by the S
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126 Baroda, c. 1898 - 1902 The love
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128 Baroda, c. 1898 - 1902 The shad
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130 Baroda, c. 1898 - 1902 By Aryan
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132 Baroda, c. 1898 - 1902 Lost in
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134 Baroda, c. 1898 - 1902 A mighty
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136 Baroda, c. 1898 - 1902 Their bo
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138 Baroda, c. 1898 - 1902 Still ba
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140 Baroda, c. 1898 - 1902 The horr
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A NOTE ON LOVE AND DEATH The story
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Khaled of the Sea an Arabian romanc
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148 Baroda, c. 1898 - 1902 The Arab
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150 Baroda, c. 1898 - 1902 The tigr
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152 Baroda, c. 1898 - 1902 About my
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154 Baroda, c. 1898 - 1902 His cry
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156 Baroda, c. 1898 - 1902 Followin
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CANTO I The Story of Almaimun and t
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160 Baroda, c. 1898 - 1902 From Bag
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162 Baroda, c. 1898 - 1902 Proscrib
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CANTO I Under the high and gloomy e
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Uloupie 167 “What wast thou musin
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Uloupie 169 Leaving tremendous seat
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Uloupie 171 Ere all is over; for th
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Uloupie 173 Of the wide court and e
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O face that I have loved O face tha
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Sonnets 179 Because thy flame is sp
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Sonnets 181 Still there is somethin
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Short Poems from Manuscripts Circa
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186 Baroda, c. 1898 - 1902 There ar
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188 Baroda, c. 1898 - 1902 Epitaph
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190 Baroda, c. 1898 - 1902 When bou
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192 Baroda, c. 1898 - 1902 Since I
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194 Baroda, c. 1898 - 1902 World’
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Part Three Baroda and Bengal Circa
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Invitation With wind and the weathe
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Poems from Ahana and Other Poems 20
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Part Four Calcutta and Chandernagor
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Reflections of Srinath Paul, Rai Ba
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Reflections of Srinath Paul 269 No,
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Short Poems Published in 1909 and 1
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274 Calcutta and Chandernagore, 190
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Perfect thy motion Perfect thy moti
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ACHAB Poems from Manuscripts 287 An
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ESARHADDON Poems from Manuscripts 2
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Narrative Poems Published in 1910
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Baji Prabhou A noon of Deccan with
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Baji Prabhou 297 The Bhonsle names
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Baji Prabhou 299 Yet resolute to br
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Baji Prabhou 301 The heads that pla
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Baji Prabhou 303 “Exhaust the stu
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Baji Prabhou 305 Yet careful of pre
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Baji Prabhou 307 The trumpets.” C
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Chitrangada
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Poems Written in 1910 and Published
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Two Poems in Quantitative Hexameter
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BOOK I The Book of the Herald Dawn
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Ilion - Book I 337 “Wardens charg
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Ilion - Book I 339 Dumb and coerced
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Ilion - Book I 341 Vague like a pha
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Ilion - Book I 343 Seeking a mortal
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Ilion - Book I 345 Son of the ancie
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Ilion - Book I 347 Shaking in wrath
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Ilion - Book I 349 High, insistent,
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Ilion - Book I 351 I shall go warri
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Ilion - Book I 353 Perishes hurt in
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BOOK II The Book of the Statesman N
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Ilion - Book II 357 Dropped like a
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Ilion - Book II 359 Less in his bui
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Ilion - Book II 361 Conquering men
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Ilion - Book II 363 Still you need
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Ilion - Book II 365 Bartered her to
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Ilion - Book II 367 O that alone th
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Ilion - Book II 369 He as yet rose
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A page of Illion
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372 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 Vil
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374 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 The
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376 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 Tro
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378 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 Why
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380 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 Who
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382 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 Men
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384 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 Res
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388 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 Fie
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390 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 Eve
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392 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 War
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394 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 “
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396 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 Yea
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398 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 So
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400 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 See
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402 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 Woe
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BOOK VI The Book of the Chieftains
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426 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 Sha
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432 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 Aft
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BOOK VIII The Book of the Gods So o
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446 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 Gle
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448 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 You
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BOOK IX Meanwhile moved by their un
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468 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 Now
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470 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 Ar
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472 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 Ye,
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478 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 Hea
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480 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 Man
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482 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 Stu
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508 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 Sha
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510 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 Rej
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514 Pondicherry, c. 1910 - 1920 And
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Poems Past and Present
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Six Poems
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NOTES (From Letters of the Author)
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Transformation My breath runs in a
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NOTE In some of these poems, as in
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or again, from Shakespeare’s pros
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Poems 569 Ro | se of | Go | d, | da
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Ocean Oneness Silence is round me,
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Three Sonnets
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Man the Thinking Animal A trifling
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Sonnets 595 The Call of the Impossi
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Sonnets 597 All here is Spirit All
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Sonnets 599 The Yogi on the Whirlpo
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Sonnets 601 The Indwelling Universa
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Sonnets 603 The Pilgrim of the Nigh
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Sonnets 605 Life-Unity I housed wit
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Sonnets 607 The Universal Incarnati
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Sonnets 609 Shiva On the white summ
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Sonnets 611 Lila In us is the thous
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Sonnets 613 The Inner Sovereign Now
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Sonnets 615 TheLittleEgo This puppe
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Sonnets 617 The Body This body whic
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Sonnets 619 “I” This strutting
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Sonnets 621 The Inconscient Foundat
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Sonnets 623 Because Thou art Becaus
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Sonnets 625 Form O worshipper of th
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Sonnets 627 The Inner Fields There
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Symbol Moon Once again thou hast cl
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Lyrical Poems 633 The earth’s see
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Lyrical Poems 635 Who art thou that
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Lyrical Poems 637 Krishna (Cretics)
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Lyrical Poems 639 Despair on the St
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Lyrical Poems 641 That looms across
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Lyrical Poems 643 And the laughter
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Lyrical Poems 645 4 How shalt thou
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O pall of black Night O pall of bla
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Metrical Experiments 651 O Life, th
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Metrical Experiments 653 On the gre
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A Ballad of Doom There was an awful
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Nonsense and “Surrealist” Verse
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Incomplete Poems from Manuscripts C
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666 Pondicherry, c. 1927 - 1947 All
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Appendix Poems in Greek and in Fren
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686 Appendix Lorsque rien n’exist
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Note on the Texts
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692 Collected Poems in London, Camb
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694 Collected Poems from the manusc
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696 Collected Poems Ye charming wer
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698 Collected Poems Thou didst mist
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700 Collected Poems Miracles. Circa
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702 Collected Poems he was the edit
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704 Collected Poems those of 1909,
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706 Collected Poems Karmayogin earl
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708 Collected Poems factors — the
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710 Collected Poems which this inco
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712 Collected Poems PART SEVEN: PON
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714 Collected Poems October 1933; i
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716 Collected Poems WORKS OF SRI AU
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718 Collected Poems Man the Thinkin
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722 Collected Poems to “Cosmic Se
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724 Collected Poems Silence is all.
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726 Collected Poems journal Mother
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728 Collected Poems The Fire King a
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Index of Titles Adwaita 621 Ahana 4
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Index of Titles 735 God to thy grea
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Index of Titles 737 Lorsque rien n
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Index of Titles 739 The Self’s In
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Index of Titles 741 The Word of the
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744 Collected Poems Artist of cosmo
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746 Collected Poems I walked beside
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748 Collected Poems O Word conceale
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750 Collected Poems This strutting
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