The Future Poetry

Poems in Quantitative Metres 387 Full of her luminous errand, careless of eve and its weeping, Fateful she paused unconcerned ab ...

388 The Future Poetry Whinnying high as in scorn crossed Simois’ tangled currents, Xanthus’ reed-girdled twin, the gentle and sl ...

Poems in Quantitative Metres 389 The Siege Nine long years had passed and the tenth now was wearily ending, Years of the wrath o ...

390 The Future Poetry Gleaming and clanging the gods of the antique ages descended. Hidden from human knowledge the brilliant sh ...

Poems in Quantitative Metres 391 Age after fruitless age. Day hunted the steps of the nightfall; Joy succeeded to grief; defeat ...

392 The Future Poetry Something that smote at her soul of defiance and beauty and laughter, Darkened the hours. For Doom in her ...

Poems in Quantitative Metres 393 Beauty lay in her lap. Remote, hieratic and changeless, Filled with her deeds and her dreams he ...

394 The Future Poetry Secrecy whispers, there I will speak among Ilion’s princes.” “Envoy,” answered the Laomedontian, “voice of ...

Poems in Quantitative Metres 395 Still with the impulse of speed Thrasymachus greeted Aeneas: “Hero Aeneas, swift be thy stride ...

396 The Future Poetry Then, in a farewell brief and unthought and unconscious of meaning, Parting they turned to their tasks and ...

Poems in Quantitative Metres 397 Everachildofthedawnatplaynearaturnofthesun-roads, Facing destiny’s look with the careless laugh ...

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Note on the Texts THE FUTURE POETRY was first published serially in the monthly reviewAryabetween December 1917 and July 1920 in ...

400 The Future Poetry When asked in 1949 about the possibility of publishingThe Future Poetry, Sri Aurobindo replied that it can ...

Note on the Texts 401 On Quantitative Metre. Sri Aurobindo wrote this essay for inclusion in hisCollected Poems and Plays, which ...