SRI AUROBINDO

Collected Poems

SHORT POEMS — 1890-1900

The Nightingale

An Impression

Hark in the trees the low-voiced nightingale

Has slain the silence with a jubilant cry;

How clear in the hushed night, yet voluble

And various as sweet water wavering by,

That murmurs in a channel small

Beneath a low grey wall,

Then sings amid the fitful rye.

O sweet grave Siren of the night,

Astarte's eremite,

Thou feedest every leaf with solemn glee,

Lo, the night-winds sigh happier, being chid by thee.

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